When I was about 7, my father took the three of us boys to the big circus (I guess it was downtown NY, that would be the Garden perhaps).

Anyway we had seats right on the runway and Pop leaned over and said really loudly, "Emmett, it's me, Rem." And the next thing you know I am sitting in Emmett Kelly's lap while he chatted with my father. No one believed me in school until I was able to take in the pictures (which are long since lost).


TEd