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An era in U.S. show business ended in Pittsburgh, and John Ringling North, hereditary boss of Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus, pronounced an epitaph: "The tented circus as it now exists is a thing of the past." Last of the surviving big-time big tops, Ringling struck its huge tent for the last time, packed up to limp back to winter quarters in Sarasota, Fla., though the season was but half over. The big show's ailments: television, labor troubles, miserable weather this year,...
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