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...trumpet split the air, gates swung wide. Past the slim, tail-coated form of Ringmaster Fred Bradna lumped a big bull elephant to herald the 166th year of American circus and the 13th season of Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Combined Shows, which no longer needs to bill itself as "The Greatest Show on Earth." For John Ringling, sole survivor of Barnum & Bailey and the seven brothers Rüngeling of Baraboo, Wis., it was his 54th season of showmanship, which began with a pin-show in an Iowa barn and now undisputedly monopolizes U. S. circus entertainment. The monopoly consists...
...decree signed jointly with Premier Molotov (cautious Stalin never takes sole responsibility), 125 managers of State cattle ranches were dismissed and 35 of them indicted for criminal mismanagement (punishable by shooting). The decree, postulating that many of Russia's present breeding ranches are too large, ordered them split up by the creation of 102 new ranches, menaced with dire threats ranch managers who have ignored previous orders to breed on a strict cost accounting basis...
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...were probing a cloud-bank in the East. A dark, jagged line broke the horizon where the clouds parted. The figure in the bow started and stared a moment. "Land, ho!" The caked dirt cracked on the seamen's cheeks in the deep furrows of broad grins. Rotting shirts split across the shoulders as the men leaped to their feet. Not every man could have given the order to sail on to the mainland...
...April 5 the Harvard debaters will face Villanova, and will argue the question "Resolved, That Congress Should Build Our Navy to Treaty Strength". In this contest, the colleges will be split, Harvard having two negative and one affirmative speakers...