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...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; clowns who operate explosive...
...these, only Brandy Snap was saved from the pyre of many champions last week. Others destroyed included Backside Bard, a wire-haired stud, Hafren Wizard, the last Welsh terrier bred by Homer Gage Jr., and Holmbury Reverie of Welwire, a wire-haired that had won "Best-in-Show" 14 times...
Died. Nathan Bedford Forrest, 58. retired Imperial Kligraph (national secretary) of the Ku Klux Klan, onetime Grand Dragon of the Georgia Klan, grandson of Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest who was the first Grand Wizard of the original Klan when it was founded in 1867; of paralysis; in White Springs...
...annual bickering over the opening date of spring is providing the Mathematics Department with a subject worthy of its wizard calculations. Most Harvard men have been so bewildered by the fertility of March in breeding April Hours that they have little spirit left for questions of chronology. It is so much simpler to concede Mr. Einstein a point and admit that the whole thing is purely relative...
...young financial genius (as indicated, Douglas in plain clothes) and being impressed by large transactions in stock sales made through a selection of innumerable telephones which surround the man, we watch Miss Daniels drawl her way into the sactum sanctorum in order to win a bet. The young wizard is properly upset and so is the financial world. The woman plays with the inexperienced man. The man ends up by following her on board a curious trans-Atlantic liner. A travelling library on the subject of amours, Douglas' valet, mixes a potion that upsets everything. An orchestra plays; the passengers...