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...Sixty-five-year-old Charles Davis, who had paced nervously below his children at every performance of their high-wire balancing act, was ready when it happened in a Miami circus tent. As his son and daughter lost their balance and toppled, Davis hurled himself forward and cushioned their fall with his body. His children survived with back injuries; he suffered only bruises...
...Technicolor, in piercing circus poster colors, puts the lassies into rich kirtles and the laddies into brave plaid pantaloons. Everyone also cuts such fine figures of speech that Parks gets an unscheduled giggle when he says (of his own destiny): "I canna stop the wind...
President Eliot, when asked why, though a crew enthusiast, he never went to football games, answered tartly, "It's too much like a circus." That probably was at once the great drawback and beauty of the game during the Eighties. There were no forward passes and no real blocking, and yet the scores were phenomenally large. Part of the reason may be that organized defense systems were unknown, and the kicking was plentiful and accurate...
...this time, you probably know the yarn of the circus bear who ran away and discovered a Law of the Wild that Jack London must have missed: bears make love with a slap. Bongo's understanding of bearish tactics grows through many rounds of grizzly fistienffs, and he finally learns that to court his love, he must make with a right to her muzzle. Add some good tunes to his slaps, and the result is tops. Clumping about in a Northwoods that would make a lumberman's mouth water, Bonge and the bears paw one another sufficiently to reach anybody...
Once Jiminy has quit selling, the invisible Miss Shore tells and sings quite a pleasant little yarn about one Bongo (original story by Nobel Prizewinner Sinclair Lewis). Bongo is a small circus bear who answers the call of the wild on his unicycle, finds that he is a bit soft and urban for life in the raw, falls for a sexy little taupe she-bear, and engages a gigantic rival in slapstick battle...