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...Barker?A ballyhoo romance of the circus, colorful and tense...
...Self-Made Man and town-builder back in Ireland, as broad Kevin Shannon, his father, had been in the U. S. How might that be? By the same token that Gerald Shannon chances to hang his shoes on the chandelier and trousers in the tub, and to take a circus troupe to a senator's party, and to sing Rocked in the Cradle with a freight-yard detective, and to be very unwell on a mule-ship. Author Connell simply wants his hero to do those things and the hero does them with the utmost whimsical dispatch. There...
...Publisher Bonfils knows ringmaster gabble. With his late partner, H. H. Tarnmen, he owned the Sells-Floto circus. The basis of his journalistic technique is a sardonic conception of "the people" as a childish mob to be amused, pampered, bullied, used...
...circulation included: A spectacle to signalize the Denver auto show: "The next thing on the Denver Post's free amusement program, ladies and gentlemen,* will be a thrilling leap for death by 75 world-famous Autoarabs, the tumbling Gas Anns, the Leaping Lenas of motordom's circus world." Army tanks were obtained to haul many battered motor hulks to an abyss on Castle Mountain. Throngs of Denverites scrambled thither to see the hurtling-into-space, the drop, the crash, the wreckage. A block party on Champa Street (outside the Post offices), with 21 bombs fired, bands playing, revelry...
...modern "go-getters." But the book itself is more interesting than its contents. It is the third in a series called "The American Panorama." The first two, far better books, folklore rather than fantasy, were Run, Sheep, Run and Gypsy Down the Lane. Author Williamson, onetime hobo, sailor, sheepherder, circus hand, newsgatherer, wrestler, linguist, social worker, Harvard student and African explorer, has French, Irish, Norwegian and Welsh blood. Unless this is his autobiography he may be said to have imagination...