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...bushy member of the bovine family which contributes transportation, housing (its hair is woven for tent cloth), milk, butter, meat, and a common word in crossword puzzles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN TRADE: Whiskers for St. Nick | 8/2/1948 | See Source »

...move Barnum & Bailey's circus across the country than it is for a U.S. President to travel. This week, as the White House hummed with preparations for his first all-out political trip of the campaign, Harry Truman was making the Big Top look like a pup tent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Rx for Democrats | 6/7/1948 | See Source »

...With It? (Universal-International) is a cinemusical about a tent show. The show's supercarnival acts, which had a rich midway glamor on the Broadway stage, have only a cheap midway glare when filtered through the screen. But Song &-Danceman Donald O'Connor comes through brightly as a sort of low-glazed, hickory-cured Danny Kaye...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, May 3, 1948 | 5/3/1948 | See Source »

Georgia Sothern, Grand Old Lady of Undress, suffered a routine contretemps when police arrested her after a show in Wilmington. She was fined $125 and costs for lewdness in a tent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Happy Days | 4/26/1948 | See Source »

...weeks after the uprising that freed Prague in May 1945, Charles University reopened. Though there was room for scarcely 10,000 students, 19,189 stormed the gates. Every last one was admitted. Classes ran in shifts in unheated lecture rooms, movie houses, dance halls and even in a circus tent. While students scribbled, professors dictated "textbooks" from memory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: We Accept . . . | 4/19/1948 | See Source »

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