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...Midwood High School bottomed out below C level. "It was a school for emotionally disturbed teachers," he says. "I failed to make the chess team because of my height." Lines like that fractured Allen Konigsberg's fellow juniors. For laughs-and a few bread crumbs-the class clown sent them on to columnists under an assumed name...
...women. But his lust and insistent refusal to settle down prove his undoing. He loses his much abused wife (Lois Nettleton) and teen-age son just when he comes to realize he needs them both. He wrassles unsuccessfully with guilt when his best buddy, Clete (Slim Pickens), a rodeo clown who keeps an avuncular eye on Lew, gets his neck broken for his trouble. When last seen, Lew is wandering off over yonder hill, saddle over his shoulder, sadder but prob ably not much wiser...
Died. Otto Griebling, 75, Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey clown whose sad, sagging face and fumbling impudence have been widely copied circus fixtures for the past 50 years; of a stroke; in New York City...
Thus occurred, Witcover says, "the great Agnew transformation." He goes on to give a play by play of the Vice President's Pier 6 career, first as a clown and then as an increasingly feared gut fighter who made "an odyssey of divisiveness and personal vilification...
...year old clown was renowned for his routine with a block of ice. He carried this around the arena looking in vain for a recipient while it melted in his hands into an ice cube...