Word: sideshow
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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POLITICAL NOTES $250,000 on the Bed Dudley J. LeBlanc, who peddled patent medicine (Hadacol) with a sideshow of dancing girls and other razzle-dazzle, is now selling Dudley J. LeBlanc with some of the same techniques. Last week, LeBlanc, a Louisiana state senator, and Lieutenant Governor William J. Dodd, both candidates for the Democratic nomination for governor of Louisiana, talked about forming a combined ticket. One would run for governor, the other for lieutenant governor. The Hadacol baron, who had just sold his business for $8,200,000,* proposed that each put up $250,000 to finance the campaign...
With the help of such suave know-it-alls as John J. Anthony, radio has for years made a sideshow out of people in trouble. More like a lecture than a sideshow, What's On Your Mind? (Tues. 8 p.m., ABC-TV) is one television show that seriously considers the neuroses of troubled people. Twenty of its 30 minutes are given to the filmed story of a mental-health problem; the remaining ten minutes show a panel discussion by Moderator Isabel Leighton and her guests: a psychiatrist and two laymen...
...first-act aria - lamenting departed Tom - beautifully sung by Soprano Elizabeth Schwarzkopf of the Vienna State Opera, came close to stopping the show. The other top voices: Tenor Robert Rounseville of the New York City Opera as Tom, Mezzo-Soprano Jennie Tourel as Baba the Turk, the sideshow bearded lady whom Tom marries as a jape...
...important point is that athletics, as a part of the "whole man" education, must be an end in themselves and not be operated either as a business or as a sideshow. Slight deviations from this standard may seem harmless, but there is no difference in intention between them and the outright purchase of football players. Even "traditional rivalries" are more expendable than education, and should not become the criteria of a football policy. If a traditional rival prefers the rarified air of the Top Ten to strict compliance with the rules, then it is useless for Harvard to attempt...
...arrived on foot, by oxcart and crowded railway car. They had come for the seventh annual eye clinic at the town of Darbhanga (pop. 69,203). Some sang and some prayed as a troop of Boy Scouts, led by a betel-nut-chewing Scoutmaster with a voice like a sideshow barker's, herded them in & out of 20 weather-beaten tents that formed a temporary hospital. Their hospital beds were pallets of straw; their only covering was the dirty robes they wore. But within a week of their arrival, the most energetic surgeon in India had examined each...