A bit of a sad note...

[realsorien]

Clarabelle the clown has passed. I mention this partly for that ending of an era, and partly because the man who was the third and best Clarabelle was also a major name in Big Band and Swing music. The details are in the link.

http://www.cnn.com/2006/SHOWBIZ/TV/05/17/obit.clarabell.ap/index.html