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...Louis-Sébastian Lenormand climbed to the top of an observatory tower in Montpellier, France, leaned over the edge, and jumped. An astonished crowd watched as he fell to the ground with the aid of a new contraption called the parachute and landed unhurt...
Although the sport's name is only 27 years old, the idea has been around ever since Lenormand took his first step off the building to test his parachute - a contraption resembling an oversized umbrella, which he had invented to help people escape burning buildings. On February 2, 1912, in much the same spirit, 35-year-old Frederick Law jumped off the Statue of Liberty's observation platform. He and his 100-pound parachute landed with a thud on Liberty Island's stone coping, a few yards from the water. A Russian man named Vladimir Ossovski performed a similar stunt...
This week's Loeb Experimental Theatre production, "Time is a Dream," by H. R. Lenormand, will be presented Sunday at 3 and 3 p.m. and at 8 p.m. on Monday and Tuesday. The play, directed by Jackson Davis and produced by Clayton Koelb, stars shapely Pam King and Skip Ascheim. No admission will be charged...
...lone Northeastern goal came at 8.13 of the second period. Forward Ed LeNormand took a pass from Neil McPhee and shot it across Wood into the left-hand corner of the cage...
...comic scenes and parts that Lenormand has written seem to have crept into the play by mistake. His thesis, which is finally stated explicitly near the end, is that humans love life, and for that reason life kills them. This is an interesting and tenable idea. But in his attempt to prove its truth, he heaps one unbearable emotion on top of another. The bloody last scene (which happens to be the thirteenth) kills off the hero and heroine. M. Lenormand has reached the worst of his worst. There is nothing more to say. One last, unbearable emotion...