Circus World Museum Keeps Ringling Spirit Alive in Baraboo
Baraboo Wisconsin embraces circus lore at the Circus World museum housed partly in the Ringling winter quarters. Curator C P Fox says the non profit exhibit preserves Wisconsin history with authentic relics as 150 000 visitors flocked last season. A wax Sid e show featuring Barnum and famed sideshow figures anchors the collection alongside original Ringling cars and European relics.
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Baraboo
Wis
Wisconsin
Ringling Brothers Circus
New Circus World Museum
Ringlings
Ringling
Gollmar
Ringling Brothers Barnum and Bailey
The
State Historical Society of
America
C. P
Chappie) Fox
United States
Europe
Sarasota
Fila
Betty Low Raskin and Her Plastic Smoke Flakes
Betty Lou Raskin, director of plastics research at Johns Hopkins, unveils a light plastic smoke called flakes. The invention seeds rain, cools and protects during nuclear tests, and aids smokelike signaling while offering new avenues for foamed plastics.
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Baltimore
Johns Hopkins University
Betty Lou Raskin
Betty Lou
American Chemical Society
Miss Riskin
Paris Voters Split Over Hamburgers or Flowers in Cuisine
In Paris a culinary debate erupts as Marcel Drugbert urges replacing steak with hamburgers to cut costs, while restaurateur Alphonse defends flowers on plates. Several Paris eateries display floral dishes, from Tour Eiffel rose petal chicken to Prunier red mullet scented with jasmine, with playful menu ideas like Hamburger aud Violettes Imperiales.
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Paris
Marcel Drugbert
National Confederation of Butchers
Alphonse
Champs-Elysees
Prunier’s
Lasserre’s
Great Lakes Shoreline Survey Urges Preservation
A 5 480 mile U S shoreline survey by National Park Service teams funded by private foundations recommends preserving Great Lakes areas for public recreation. The reports urge protection of sleeping Bear dunes Huron mountains and Pictured rocks while noting pollution and development threaten the region and highlighting Isle Royale Perry's Victory and other protected lands.
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H. D. Crawford
Central Press Association
Washington
United States
National Park Service
Minnesota
Wisconsin
Illinois
Indiana
Ohio
Michigan
Pennsylvania
New York
Atlantic
Gulf
Sleeping Bear Dunes
Huron Mountains
Pictured Rocks
National Parks Advisory Board
National Park System
Lake Superior
Perry's Victory National Monument
Lake Erie
Grand Portage National Monument
St. Marys
St. Clair
Detroit
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Cockleshell Sailor's Firm
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Congress
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