Word: headfirst
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...debut as host of a live TV special (The World of Magic), Henning will attempt Houdini's famous water-torture escape trick, a piece of submerged wizardry last performed by the master himself in the 1920s. With hands manacled and feet padlocked in stocks, Henning will descend headfirst into a tank of water. To break Houdini's record, he must escape within two minutes. If he wants to continue his TV career, he'll have just a bit more time. Says Doug: "I can only hold my breath for 2½ minutes...
...after all, it was Gay who took Daniel in this past winter after his all-American aid-patrolman of a father thumped his head on the kitchen floor (making a sound like leather thongs whipping on denim, Daniel says) and chucked him headfirst through the storm door back in Ogden, Utah by his split-ended brown hair that dances half-way down in back in one massive kinetic fling...
...often tempered by injuries as youngsters try to copy the more muscular pros. The A.H.A.U.S. keeps no statistics but for most youngsters the most common wounds are gashes that require sutures. Less common but more painful are the broken noses when unskilled kids bang headfirst into the boards girdling the rink...
...corrode after his daily saltwater swishing. His grainy skin is subject to sun bleach too, so every week he needs a new epidermis. When not skillfully supervised, in fact, Bruce simply gets out of hand. Three weeks ago, during a difficult diving scene, he hauled off and rammed headfirst into his control platform. His nose job took a week, adding another delay to an enterprise already two months behind schedule...
...movie-theater mogul and part-time producer (A Taste of Honey, 1962; Ulysses, 1967), who helped build his family's original 1908 investment in a Port Chester, N.Y., vaudeville house into the Walter Reade Organization, Inc., that now owns 80 U.S. movie theaters; of suffocation, after falling headfirst into a snow bank while skiing; in St. Moritz, Switzerland...