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...Greatest Show on Earth (Paramount) is a mammoth merger of two masters of malarkey for the masses: P. T. Barnum and Cecil B. de Mille. It is not just a movie about the circus; it is a fat Technicolored reproduction of the 1951 Ringling Bros.-Barnum & Bailey Circus itself, fondly filmed from all angles by Producer-Director de Mille, and generously overlaid with a three-ringed melodrama enacted by movie stars in the roles of sawdust demigods...
...Lemme ride on de waindeer, mamma, I wanna go fo ride." "Look, honey," said his weary mother, tugging at his scarf, "how many times do I haf to tell ya. This is no circus, it's...well, it's Christmas...
Trading in penalties was brisk, with 14 being called. At one stage the teams were playing four-a-side, because the Crimson had been penalized twice in ten seconds for having too many men on the ice. This circus followed a third-period exchange of penalties which left the Crimson with a five-to-four manpower advantage. Then, for no apparent reason, Harvard's Dick Clasby took the ice, drawing an automatic additional penalty (served by Amory Hubbard...
Nowhere have you dealt with the main themes of the article. You take the Berlin Peace Rally as it was advertised, not as the propaganda circus I tried to show it. Your chief concern is not with the black eye America received, but with the black eye America received, but with the welfare of American fellow-travelers, with German and Russian Communists. Perhaps you have swallowed a bit too much of Mr. Stalin's now well-seasoned "propaganda stew...
Chuck Taylor has had some other standout performers to work with. All-America Bill McColl, a 6 ft. 4 in. end who specializes in quick-step feinting and circus catches, leads the conference in pass receiving-35 for seven touchdowns. Searching his team for a fireworks runner, Taylor found him a fortnight ago when 21-year-old Fullback Bob Mathias, Olympic decathlon champion, broke loose with a 96-yd. kick-off runback that broke the back of favored Southern California. Mathias, a junior who just turned out for football this year, "could play at any position on the team," says...