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...world's safest jumper" because he has never been injured in 15 years of competition. Crowds of up to 135,000 turn out to watch him make like a bird. He is a national hero in Norway, where his biography is a bestseller, and in Austria children mimic his style on tiny backyard ski jumps-the one who jumps farthest gets to call himself Toralf Engan all day long...
Died. Francis Carino Alberto Milano, 44. a mimic of sounds on U.S. network airwaves, whose talented bark for RCA Victor's "His Master's Voice'' and tasty Snap! Crackle! Pop! for Kellogg's Rice Krispies earned him a 330-acre upstate New York farm where, so he said, even the chipmunks thought he was real; of a heart attack; in Hudson...
Mimicry, being comedy's sharp elbow in the ribs, usually depends on the mimic's being at a safe distance from his subject -or victim; the more dignified and honored the subject, the greater the advisable distance. But an appealing showman named Elliott Reid flew down to Washington a fortnight ago with nothing less in mind than mimicking President Kennedy for the pleasure of the capital's press corps, most of the Cabinet officers, and the President himself. The result: Kennedy was convulsed, and Good Trouper Reid was once again "discovered...
After Reid, the President took the stage and deftly stole the show from the professionals - Reid, Peter Sellers, Benny Goodman, Gwen Verdon, Sally Ann Howes. Referring to an increase in the price of tickets to the dinner, Kennedy proved to be his own best mimic: "The sudden and arbitrary action to raise the price by $2.50 over last year is wholly unjustified," he began, pointing his stern, recruiting-poster finger. "The American people will find it difficult to accept this decision . . ." and so on, in perfect parallel to his famous scolding of the steel industry...
Peter Sellers is there, of course, at his flat in London, and he is on the line. Contentedly he clicks down the phone. Shy men like Sellers hate to talk to friends, let alone strangers. Sellers is the world's best mimic, equipped with an enormous range of accents, inflections and dialects-including five kinds of cockney, Mayfair pukka, stiff upper BBC, Oxford, Cambridge, Yorkshire, Lancashire, West Country, Highland Scots, Edinburgh Scots, Glaswegian Scots, Tyneside Geordie, Northern Ireland, Southern Ireland, French, Mitteleuropa, American Twang, American Drawl, American Snob, Canadian, Australian and three kinds of Indian. He fools everybody. Everybody...