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PM, June 28, 1943, p.16

When the Big Top Comes to Times Square

“Miss Victory,” Eglie Zacchini, is shot out of a cannon at a speed of 360 feet a second. Weegee got this unusually difficult picture at a performance, using a telephoto lens at 1/1000th of a second.

Minnie the bear, who appears with her husband Bill in Larry Sunbrock’s Big Top Circus, knows when payday is – and gets in line early.

This is the “Big Top” – first three-ring circus tent to be pitched in Manhattan for 100 years – in a former parking…
PM, June 28, 1943, p.16


Weegee’s World, p.230