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BUY YOUR TICKETS NOW, FOLKS, FOR THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH : THE CARPET CHEWER CAGED, OR GARGANTUA WAS JUST A GIGOLO. . . .

If the suggestions of a number of listeners to Manhattan's WQXR were to be taken seriously by the United Nations, show bills like the above would soon appear on hoardings from Omsk to Acapulco. Advance ticket sales might well defray much of the cost of the war. Asked by WQXR's Commentator Estelle Sternberger what the world should do with Hitler if he were captured alive, no less than 45 responses recommended an international tour in a cage.*

* Not a new idea. It was suggested for Kaiser Bill during World War I, and according to legend it proved a great hit in 1402 A.D. when Tamerlane took caged Sultan Bayezid I (sometimes known as The Thunderbolt) on a road tour through what is now Turkey.

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