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The acquisition involves more than 1,200 performers and employees, 500 circus animals and 98 railroad cars. Irvin Feld was a record and music promoter and music store chain owner before becoming involved with the circus in 1956. In 1967, he and his brother acquired the company's total assets from the
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immigrants. Following high school, in 1938 he and his brother opened a drugstore on
Seventh Street NW in Washington, D.C. Records proved big-sellers at the store. He later opened Super Music City record stores, and eventually branched out into producing both his own records and his own live concerts.
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Mattel Inc. said that it had sold
Ringling Brothers-Barnum & Bailey Combined Shows Inc. for $ 22.8 million to a family that had owned the circus and has been in its management for 26 years. Two members of the family, Irvin Feld and his son, Kenneth, said that the deal included the circus, Ice
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Irvin Feld, 66, the son of East
European immigrants who grew up to be a major American impresario and an heir in spirit to the legendary P.T. Barnum as the owner and operator of the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus, died yesterday in a Venice, Fla.,
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In 1946, he married Adele Feld. They had two children, Karen and
Kenneth. After Adele Feld committed suicide in 1958, the children were raised by their aunt and uncle in Washington, DC. After Feld died in 1984, the circus passed to his son
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My grandfather Irvin Feld was a promoter. He bought
Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus in 1967. My father, Kenneth, joined the company, now Feld Entertainment, in 1970 and is C.E.O.
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Ringling and North families for $ 8 million. Two years later, the circus became a publicly held corporation, and in 1971 the company was sold to Mattel for $ 50 million in stock.
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Irvin Feld, once hailed as the "greatest showman on earth" and the owner, chairman and producer of
Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus, died here Thursday.
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Follies, Holiday on Ice and the new Walt Disney's World on Ice. The transaction also includes a Las Vegas nightclub act called
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After ten years as one of several national promoters for the
Ringling Circus, Feld, along with his brother
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in 1971 for $ 50 million in Mattel stock. He bought it back from Mattel in 1982 for $ 22.8 million.
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Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Clown College
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165:Hagerstown, Maryland
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112:Kenneth Jeffrey Feld
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16:American businessman
756:Siegfried & Roy
267:". Washington Post.
243:on November 4, 2011
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681:Irvin Feld
671:Key people
617:Live shows
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159:Biography
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