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...Band's eight-foot bass drum died yesterday...
While the snare drums sizzled and the crowd gasped, two girls in tights stood on eight-foot pedestals a stage width apart, one with an end of a wire about her neck, the second holding the other end with her teeth. A man mounted the slack wire, stretched himself out flat-backed and flipped himself over and over. The gymnasts were Germany's famed Goltz Trio, making its successful rounds of the U.S. vaudeville circuit 40 years ago. Last week Christel Goltz, the wire walker's 34-year-old daughter, made her U.S. debut as another kind...
...after day, at every showing, 2,000 Syrians and their neighbors from other Arab countries sat entranced watching the motion-picture scenes and Commentator Lowell Thomas, and listening to the Arabic sound track booming out on the loudspeakers. At every showing there was an overflow crowd beyond the eight-foot sheet-iron fence enclosing the outdoor theater. Spectators perched like crows high in the shadows of eucalyptus trees, stood on auto tops and rooftops. Hundreds of others, defying the laws of balance and endurance of hu man muscle, stood spread-legged on the upper bars of the steel traffic-control...
...clothes to report a nudist convention, wrote that Marilyn had once given her the recipe for "happiness." It was to "serve Joe dinner in his chair while he watched TV," and let him wear the-pants in the family. Marilyn, according to Aline, also bought a "king-size, eight-foot bed," because she did not approve of separate bedrooms, and "often in bed you think of something you want to say, and you're not going to chase down the hall to another room...
...eight-foot tuba provided the bandsmen with opportunity to display almost unparalleled ingenuity. When the massive horn was dropped last year outside Symphony Hall, managers were seriously puzzled as to how to fit it--within the band budget. They finally got a satisfactory repair job, cheaply, an auto body repair shop...