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Twenty-eight-year old Norman Bigelow of Fitchburg, Mass, takes a different approach to the art of escaping. Bigelow specializes in death-defying stunts, with the emphasis on the "death." His big escapes are carefully arranged scenarios for near-suicide. He tackles the Water Torture Cell, for starters. Then there is the Fire Escape, where Bigelow is chained to a chair and must escape before a lit trail of gunpowder burns its way back to a 'bomb that will explode in his face. Not to mention the Board of Death, a contraption to which Bigelow is chained and bound with...

Author: By Brian L. Zimbler, | Title: Fit to be Tied | 10/31/1977 | See Source »

...Bigelow cited the freshman rule as a very discouraging element for Beaulieu and for most good athletes in the Ivy League...

Author: By David Dalquist, | Title: Bound By the Ivy | 9/16/1977 | See Source »

...Bobby Bigelow plays for the Kansas City Kings and has been a close friend of Beaulieu's for five years. He says he understands Joe's move...

Author: By David Dalquist, | Title: Bound By the Ivy | 9/16/1977 | See Source »

...Having played at Penn, I was one of the key reasons he went to Harvard in the first place," Bigelow pointed out. "The whole conflict between books and basketball has touched every player at a school like Harvard. I think at this point, basketball has become a bigger part of Joe's life than it was before. He has very good raw ability--it won't be easy, but he has the potential to be a professional...

Author: By David Dalquist, | Title: Bound By the Ivy | 9/16/1977 | See Source »

...several decades, they were going to jump out of an airplane together. Then their bodies were to be cremated, taken for a second airplane ride and scattered over a forest. But Harry talked seductively about death to many women. They thought he was being literary. With Josephine Rotch Bigelow, he found someone as reckless and wasteful as himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Death's Stunt Man | 9/6/1976 | See Source »

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