Obituary: Death of the Ringling Circus icon Big Top
Sarasota Florida obituary notes the Ringling Bros and Barnum Bailey circus dies after a long decline. John Ringling dies December 2 at age 70 and the once mighty show halves its operations with staff dispersed and winter quarters left empty.
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Gene Plowden
John Ringling
Miami Associated Press Bureau
Sarasota
Fla
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Barnum & Bailey
Florida
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Ringling Brothers
Ringlings
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Yankee Robinson
Ringling
Jefferson
Iowa
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Otto
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Bailey
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Buffalo Bill
Adan Forepaugh
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Forepaugh-Sells
Barnum and Bailey Circuses
Ringling Bros. Circus
Barnum and Bailey
Charles Ringling
Florda
Old County Fairgrounds
Madison Square Garden
American Circus Corp
Sells-Fiora
New York
Sells- Fiora
Allied Owners
Tno Allied Owners
Delaware
Sam Gumpertz
Swe
Jobo
Gumpert
Internal Revenue
Mr John
Bridge column gives West a dramatic misplay and loss
In Oswald Jacoby's Bridge column West opens spades and South doubles to 120 points down. South ruffs, overruffs, and finesses force West into a loss of 1270 and the doubled contract. The card play hinges on trumps and discards as South secure a sharp victory.
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Oswald Jacoby
NEA
West
South
Ocean Expedition To Lower New Camera To Greater Depths
An ocean exploration off West Africa aims to take the deepest sea photographs using a new electronic flash camera built for the National Geographic Society. The Calypso, commanded by Jacques-Yves Cousteau, will descend to 18,500 feet near Liberia and then pursue 25,000 feet in the Romanche Trench, testing a line 28,000 feet long and aided by Harold J. Edgerton of MIT.
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Washington
Africa
National Geographic Society
Calypso
Nationl Geographic Society
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Romanche
Society
Cousteau
John Oliver la Gorce
National ‘Geographic Magazine
Harold J Edgerton
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Teory
Samson Cordage
Shirley
Massachusetts
Edgerton
David Owen
Woods Hale Oceanographic Institution
Edserton
Romanche Trench
Dodgerton
National Museum of Natural History
Paris
National Geographic
Bates Littlehales
Gulf of Guinea
Fernando Poo
Principe
Sao Tome
Anoubon
Abidjan
Ivory Coast
Tip For Hubby and Hidden Wealth TV Program
A Mexico City TV show asks women to find a hidden 35,000 peso check in a bed filled set. Each contestant has one minute to locate it and keep it, with women typically searching behind beds and pictures. The item location is a game gimmick amid a broader segment.
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Mexico City
Sion
Soviet shifts toward tougher policy on Germany
Soviet return to hard line on Germany after Bonn conference results in plans for long range pressure and delayed unity. Ambassador Valerian Zorin recalled from Bonn as East West German tensions and East German unrest influence Moscow to hold unity until communism is ready.
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Moscow
Soviets
Valerian Zorn
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East Germany
Zorin
British Togoland Seeks Closer Gold Coast Link
British Togoland seeks tighter ties with the Gold Coast after a UN plebiscite backed union by 92 775 to 66 529. Togoland, 13 041 square miles with 410 000 people, lacks a coast but exports cocoa and is policed by the Gold Coast with revenues supporting development.
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Washington
Togoland
United Nations
Africa
Gulf of Guinea
Gold Coast
National Geographic Society
Germany
League of Nations
British
Dahomey
Yogaland
British Commonwealth of Nations
Accra
British Togoland
Equator
French Hit Rebel Units Near Moroccan Border
French forces pounded remnants of Algerian nationalist rebels near the Moroccan border in a major action southwest of Tlemcen. About fifty rebels were reported killed in wooded mountains. European troops attacked from ground and air. helicopters evacuated wounded.
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Algiers
Algeria
Tlemcen
Morocco
Marilyn's Spare Tire Under Fire
British fashion critic Jean Soward of the News Chronicle said Marilyn Monroe appears a dowdy dresser with a spare tire and ill fitting skirts. She criticized hair care and clothing tidiness noting Monroe arrived in England July 14 to film and remains styled for a male gaze.
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Marilyn
London
Miss Monroe
Marilyn Monroe
Jean Soward
The
News Chronicle
Miss Soward
Hollywood
England
British Auto Plant Hit By Strikers Across Midlands
Union leaders called a strike against British Motor Corp today, claiming broad action at 13 plants in the Midlands. The firm said turnout was under 50 percent, with 22,079 of 42,987 men at work while over 1,000 pickets surrounded facilities.
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Morris
Austin
United States
Stan Cresawell
Amalgamated Engineers
Birmingham
England
British Motor Corp
Midlands
Corporation
Young Powell Weds Ann McDowell in New York Ceremony
Norman Scott Powell son of Joan Blondell and Dick Powell married Ann McDowell yesterday in his mother's East Side apartment. The couple, both 21, planned a two week Myrtle Beach honeymoon and will reside in Ithaca after Powell resumes his senior year at Cornell. Powell's parents were divorced in 1945.
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New York
Norman Scott Powell
Joan Blondell
Dick Powell
Young Powell
Ann McDowell
East Side
Myrtle Beach
Irvington-on‘Hudson
N.Y
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Cornell
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