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Toby Hurd manages to extend one joke into a funny performance; Josh Rubins contracts a wealth of jokes into something not funny at all, except for a fine "Be Like the Bluebird...
...innings, but they rarely seemed to justify the cost. By 1959, Campbell had broken the water-speed record six times-and had gone through two broken marriages. In 1960, he became the first man to survive an auto crash at over 200 m.p.h., when his turbine-powered Bluebird spun out of control at the Bonneville Salt Flats and soared 681 ft. through the air. That cost him a basal skull fracture and a $4,500,000 car-$112,000 of which was his own money. In 1964, he scored another first, setting records on both land (403 m.p.h.) and water...
...Donald," says a psychiatrist who knew him, "was always trying to prove himself to himself and to his father and to the world." Last week, on Coniston Water, a small, deep lake in northwest England, Donald Campbell, 45, tried for yet another water-speed record in a jet-powered Bluebird hydroplane designed to skim the surface on two 6-in. sponsons fastened to the pontoons. His goal: 300 m.p.h., a speed realm that no one had ever touched. Playing solitaire on the night before his record attempt, Campbell turned up the ace and queen of spades in succession. "Mary Queen...
...first run, Campbell clocked 297 m.p.h. He swung Bluebird around and started back into the measured kilometer, picking up speed until he was doing an estimated 340 m.p.h. Suddenly, Campbell's voice crackled over the radio. "She's tramping [shaking]! She's tramping! She's going!" Bluebird's right pontoon lifted, then her nose; finally, the whole boat went airborne, looped over backward, slammed back into the water, and sank. Divers finally located Bluebird, split in two on the lake bottom 142 ft. below. At week's end they were still searching for Campbell...
...dancer in the West. After performing in Paris with Dame Margot Fonteyn at the Third International Dance Festival, Rudi had a sentimental look at his old Leningrad-Kirov comrades for the first time in four years, broke into wild applause from the audience as Compatriot Yuri Soloviev bounded through Bluebird and Giselle. "They dance so beautifully," sighed Rudi. But he carefully avoided dancing backstage for a reunion...