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...brothers had managed the nearly impossible stunt ten times in practice sessions over the past year, and they had tried doing it at every performance since Dec. 29, when the Ringling Bros, and Barnum & Bailey Circus opened its 112th season. Charley Baumann, the circus' performance director, had seen them fail so many times that he too was stunned when they finally succeeded. He ran to the phone and called the show's producers, Irvin and Kenneth Feld, in Washington. "They asked me why the hell I was calling after midnight," he told TIME's Paul Krueger...
Gifted artisans, who abound in the land of Disney and tinsel, labored at arcane specialties. Among them: Decorative Painter Frank Baumann, 71, who plied his trade in the lavish 1930s movie theaters, and German-born Karl Mindermann, 51, a silversmith. Baumann took charge of the delicate brushwork while Mindermann worked on recoppering the dome. Sculptor Michael Casey walked in one day to see what was going on and ended up plastering walls and ceilings-sometimes with cake-decorating tools. Says Mathews: "There is talent and skill left in this country like you can't believe...
...Mission Viejo enter their two stars in the race, the women's 200-yd. freestyle will be a classic. And the men's 400-yd. individual medley could coneivably include Alex Bauman (the current world record holder in the 400 meter event), Jesse Vassallo (the man whose record Baumann broke last month). Brian Goodell (the three-time NCAA champion in this event), and Djan Madruga (last year's winner...
...Wolfgang Baumann, 29, and his wife Renate, 26, a clerk and a secretary who live in a pleasant, suburban Bonn apartment, earn a combined gross salary of $2,500 a month. Taxes take nearly $1,000 of that, and they manage to save only about $100 a month. But they have a six-year-old BMW, holiday abroad every year and are preparing to move to another apartment. When they do, the moving and redecorating will be done cheaply by "friends" from the black labor market. Says Wolfgang: "We have no complaints. Life has been very comfortable...
Richard Harris is a hit man brought in by Underworld Overlord Edmund O'Brien to fight his gang war for him. O'Brien's rival is Bradford Dillman; Dillman's big gun is Chuck Connors, who performs various cruelties (on Kathrine Baumann, among others) with an artificial arm. The sadism strikes the moviemakers as funny; it is not. And as further evidence of the decline of Director Frankenheimer's creative energy, the film approaches tragedy...