painting his own nose red before gluing a red plastic clown nose over it. In this he was following Ringling tradition, as well as forestalling inadvertent glimpses of the man behind the makeup.

Those arriving at the funeral, held at the Scottish Rite Center in Denver, were greeted with plastic buckets filled with red, sponge clown noses and were asked to wear them periodically throughout ...

Those plastic half-moons bear the words "Comic ... a high level of thought has gone into what is a facsimile of a clown nose, one that is also highly disposable and will probably be forgotten ...