Word: trapezists
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Dates: during 1931-1931
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...Lillian Leitzel, the small, muscular lady who used to do more than 200 one-handed giant turns on a rope high up under the Big Top. She fell and was killed when a trapeze ring broke with her in Copenhagen last February (TIME, Feb. 23). Last week her husband, Trapezist Alfredo Codona, "The Wizard of Flight," brought back her ashes in a golden urn. Airplanes dropped wreaths on his ship as it came up New York Harbor. There are still 800 other performers in the Circus, however-whip-crackers who knock the caps off bottles 50 ft. away; whooping cowboys...