Cover Story: Circus

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Outside in the rain Manhattan traffic ground endlessly by with scarcely a pause where small boys cluttered the sidewalk under the big electric sign of Madison Square Garden. But inside it was a different world. Harlem Negroes, East Side Jews, a rag, tag & bobtail from the four corners of New York jostled Park Avenue socialites in the corridors. A dozen languages merged into a humming background for the sharp cries of men selling balloons, noisemakers, dolls, mickeymice, pink lemonade gone modern in bottles,...

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