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Dave Smith, back at 128 for today's match, meets Dave Poor. If Smith gets the jump on his opponent early in the match he should win. Besides being Jordon's most capable wrestler he is a first class showman...
...poorly Walter seemed to be shooting, nobody relaxed until he was in. But where Hagen deliberately played his opponent, Hogan coolly and distractingly plays the course as though there were nobody around. Those who have studied both in action suspect that Scientist Hogan would have been a match for Showman Hagen...
Apparently Houston needs and likes and can keep its businessman-showman mayor. "I ought to quit," Holcombe said after last week's election. "I'm at my highest peak ever. You can't stay there, but I don't think there's much chance of my quitting. I love this...
When Jean Abel Gros (pronounced grow) first saw the famed pre-Christmas parade of Manhattan's R. H. Macy & Co., Inc. 13 years ago, he got an idea. A showman with a small boy's taste for shows, Jean Gros, 54, had spent years building up a marionette road-show business. He had lost it all staging a grand opera with puppets (75 singers were hidden behind the curtain). He decided that if he could get huge balloon figures like Macy's, and somehow design them to fit under trolley wires, he could stage such parades...
...Best Showman." Jinnah was born in Karachi in 1876 of a wealthy trading family; at 16 he went to England to study law. As an advocate of the Bombay High Court he was, according to a colleague, "the best showman of them all ... His greatest delight was to confound the opposing lawyer by confidential asides and to outwit the presiding judge in repartee...