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This fellow Unus, new to the Circus this year, possesses a remarkable right forefinger which he combines with a remarkable sense of balance to perpetrate some strange and wondrous feats. To be precise, he places his right forefinger on a globe-shaped object which is attached by a rod to a table that stands about three feet above the ground. On his right forefinger Unus then proceeds to stand. This is the basic formation, but it has a number of variations, the final and most terrifyingly delightful one taking place at a considerably greater distance from the ground, and involving...
...From Madison Square Garden, the circus was presented in five three-hour telecasts. The Greatest Show on Earth turned out to be one of TV's greatest shows, with a smash Hooperating (67.2). There were a few missing ingredients (the color and smells), but the long-distance lens caught such unusual details as a close-up of Unus' one-fingered stand, the dazed expression on a midget bareback rider's face, an elephant's wink...
...chamber operas, The Telephone and The Medium, were a surprise Broadway hit (TIME, March 3, 1947). Last week, Menotti gave New York a look at two of his earlier operas, and proved again that a night at the opera can be almost as much fun as a circus...
...weeks after the uprising that freed Prague in May 1945, Charles University reopened. Though there was room for scarcely 10,000 students, 19,189 stormed the gates. Every last one was admitted. Classes ran in shifts in unheated lecture rooms, movie houses, dance halls and even in a circus tent. While students scribbled, professors dictated "textbooks" from memory...
...making abstract paintings of crawling sea life. They hardly looked like the work of the same man. Exhibited in Manhattan last week, the paintings nonetheless showed the same craftsmanship he once lavished on academic art. Kupferman had changed horses in midstream and done it with the dexterity of a circus rider. The question...