Pink Elephants And Purple Hair

September, 1955

Pink Elephants and Purple HairThat liveliest of the modern arts, the art of attracting attention, has produced some strange and sensational spectacles, but few have been stranger or more sensational than the pair of pink-and-purple brainstorms recently engendered by some inspired idea men.To dress up a circus opening in Madison Square Garden (a pretty colorful affair in itself, one might think), Marilyn Monroe, a West Coast personality, was hired to sit atop an elephant. The elephant was painted...