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Traveling to Europe, where great acts are still born and bred, Feld at one point scouted 46 Continental circuses in 35 days. He still crosses the Atlantic six times a year to beat Ed Sullivan to the talent. "Once in a while," says Feld, "after a couple of weeks on dusty lots in the midst of a blazing Italian summer, you get the feeling you've seen everything. Then, out of the blue comes an act so spectacular that you get shivers up your spine." Feld quickly signs it up. The Blue show this year alone added 27 acts...
...chase reached a peak of sorts on the great estates of 17th century Germany. Johann Casimir, Duke of Saxe-Coburg, was renowned particularly for his great bear and boar hounds, bred to the size of yearling steers. To record his chases, Duke Casimir hired a court painter named Wolfgang Birkner. The result was one of the most complete hunting chronicles ever produced...
Junk has been common even among teen-agers in the ghetto for 20 years. Around 1950, Harlem-bred Claude Brown writes in Manchild in the Promised Land, "horse was a new thing. It was like horse had just taken over." Now, says Criminologist Roger Smith, director of a drug therapy center near San Francisco, "the emerging junkie of the 1970s is a middle-class junkie as well as a junior junkie." Here are some of those contemporary junkies who have shaken the habit?at least...
Peter Camejo and his friends are not about to have that desire satisfied. They have divorced the war from the political context that bred it, held it up as an independent, unbearable monstrosity, and have asked all those who agree to come out once again in April to say so. They have willingly cast aside the only group with the power to do more than march off their hatred...
Died. Gertrude Douglas Widener, 71, One of thoroughbred racing's grandes dames; of cancer; in Manhattan. Though married to Peter A.B. Widener II, heir to the racing and breeding dynasty, the beautiful socialite was determined to make it on her own; under her own colors, she bred and raced such horses as Hula Dancer and Dan Cupid. Her greatest was the stallion Polynesian, winner of the 1945 Preakness and sire of the magnificent Native Dancer...