From barry@hal.COM Wed Mar 29 00:20:31 GMT 1995 Article: 18571 of rec.juggling Path: hal.COM!hijinks.hal.COM!not-for-mail From: barry@hal.COM (Barry Bakalor) Newsgroups: rec.juggling Subject: Re: Magnus Nicholls Date: 28 Mar 1995 16:11:43 -0800 Organization: HaL Computer Systems, Inc. Lines: 28 Message-ID: <3la8jv$313@hijinks.hal.COM> References: <3l4phj$b27@radon.stanford.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: hijinks.hal.com In article <3l4phj$b27@radon.stanford.edu>, Alan Morgan wrote: > Ah, Magnus Nicholls. Probably the best juggler no one has ever heard > of. Neil Stammer told me about him one time and said that he had had > some sort of *horrible* feud with Rastelli (Mangus, not Neil) over stolen > material (Rastelli being the Michael Moschen of his day) or possibly a > woman, and pretty much destroyed his own career over it. These may have had a small part, but obviously his career was nearly ended when he lost his right leg below the knee in a WW-I German minefield. It was 3 years before he appeared again on stage, limping on a peg leg, using the name "Wooden" Nicholls. He did what must be the most amazing kick-up ever performed, going from 4 clubs to 5 by kicking his leg up into the pattern! For a photo and full description, see the Juggler's Bulletin, October 1949, pp. 12-16. I'd like to see Anthony Gatto try to duplicate this trick! barry Juggling Information Service http://www.hal.com/services/juggle/ ftp.hal.com:/pub/juggle E-mail: juggle@hal.com, FILE-SERVICE in Subject, HELP in body -- Barry Bakalor HaL Computer Systems barry@hal.com 1315 Dell Avenue 1722 Cheney Drive Manager, Campbell, CA 95008 San Jose, CA 95128 Integration & Tools 408-379-7000x1491 408-293-7279