Word: trapezist
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Punctuating the chaos are three fine acrobat acts, in the Cirque du Soleil mode, of which trapezist Helene Turcotte, a muscular beauty, is the champion enthraller. But these oases of grace only underline the frenetic naivete of the rest of Pomp Duck. After 3 1/2 hours of the chef chasing the chanteuse, visitors rush out to inhale that acrid New York air as if it were attar of roses. Even Hell's Kitchen is preferable to hell's kitsch...
...Forces. The Colonel wants a less insubordinate son-in-law. Aware that trapeze work involves a certain amount of disciplined cooperation, he asks the young artist's adoptive family, The Flying Corbinos, to needle the boy during the camp's Victory Show. So they discuss teamwork with Trapezist Kelly while the whole troupe is lunging about between heaven and the hard floor. Mr. Kelly, though profoundly disconcerted, gets the idea, drops nobody, comes out of a two-and-a-half somersault with his lesson learned and Miss Grayson's heart somewhere between her throat and the palm...
...oilmen this move is something worth watching, for Mike Benedum is the luckiest wildcatter ever. With a $500 grubstake and more nerve than a circus trapezist, he got into the oil business in the '90s. In no time at all he made a killing in West Virginia oil, discovered the then huge Crawford Field in Illinois, lost most of his cash in Oklahoma mud. Then he whipped off again, struck the fabulous Caddo pool in Louisiana, moved on to drill in Mexico, Venezuela, Canada, Europe. Most spectacular was his discovery of the great Texas Yates pool, only 16 years...
Died. Alfredo Codona, 43, onetime world's No. 1 trapeze artist, onetime husband of famed trapezist Lillian Leitzel, founder of the famed "Flying Codonas"; by his own hand, after shooting and fatally wounding his third wife, Trapezist Leitzel's onetime protégée, Vera Bruce; in a Long Branch, Calif, lawyer's office. Two years after Lillian Leitzel's death from a fall in Copenhagen in 1931, Trapezist Codona was severely injured by a fall during a performance of his famed triple somersault in Philadelphia. Despondent over his inability to perform professionally, he last...
Married. Alfredo Codona, Ringling Bros, and Barnum & Bailey aerial trapezist; and his partner Vera Bruce; in San Antonio...