Biography
He was born on April 19, 1918 in Hagerstown, Maryland to Russian immigrants.
After ten years as one of several national promoters for the Ringling Circus, he bought it on November 11, 1967 for $8 million. In 1968, he began the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Clown College. He sold the circus to Mattel in 1971 for $50 million in Mattel stock. He bought it back in 1982.
He died on September 6, 1984, at age 66 in Venice, Florida.
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