Tag: circus
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“one-time circus ringmaster who made gorilla suits in his basement”
A showman to the end, his gorilla suits launched a costume empire.—Jamie Zawinski, jwz Philip Morris, the one-time circus ringmaster who made gorilla suits in his basement as he built the world’s largest costume distributorship, died late Sunday at his Mooresville home. … In 1967, the company says, a customer named Roger Patterson bought a…