Charley De Milo

excerpt from the book..The rocket was on the way up, but Professor Lightning didn't seem tocare. Outside the cooktent Wrout flapped his arms and, on that signal,Seaman started up the big electric band, whooping it up with John PhilipSousa for openers, while all over the midway the lights snapped on, bigwhites and yellows, reds, greens, purples and dusky violets framing, ina titillating dimness, the front flap of the girlie tent. The outsidetalkers were busy outside the spectacle tents like Wicks