Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-06-01

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many of them any more.
A million buds making their
June promises in the Coronation
Rose Garden In Windsor :.
Raindrops hammering peony
blossoms apart Mrs. r. +.
M. Hally, who hates TO see. the
fruit trees blossom-she's aller-
gic TO the incest things OF spring
:. The small air fields on the
outskirts OF town coming 10 life
with civilian planes :. The girls
who cluster around USO head
quarters chattering 10 men in
uniform The lonesome men
who carry Brownie cameras and
wear look that says: Il wish
somebody would make me be
friendly"
Prof. Leo KarcZag. who mixes
modern music with nonsense,
telling about the time he ate
gross OF eggs. raw, at one sit
pg. Turtle eggs" he adds
! he rush for buses as the mid
night shift gets out a Thinker
+. A squib in the new defense
plant newspaper. The Pontiac
Warrior" that tells what auto
dealers are doing now. One is
now selling mausoleums. another
sells chicken feed, and a third
turned 10 selling army reject
shoes IL takes such a lot OF
people TO make just one corner
Of the world!
MEMORANDUM: In response
81 queries about the rent cell
fngs-if you can't figure out
some unusual problem, the man
70 get I'm touch with IL Patrick
Mcnamara, rent administrator.
whose office IN on the seventh
floor OF the Penobscot Building.
PROF1LE-The SHAKESPEARE
Man: The man who starts sway
ing back and forth while stand
ing on his head on top OF a
13S-foot flag pole out al East
wood Park tuns out 10 be
native Michigander. A. +. Selden,
who calls himself The StratoS-
phere Man.
J, He doesn't actually stand on
his head. He docs a handstand
at the top Of the steel pole and
the timber steel lasheS 80 feet
back and forth like tomcats
tail.
We asked Selden how he got
into the business and he told us
about his childhood on a farm at
Eagle. 1S miles from Lansing.
Al the age OF 9 he saw his first
circus and never recovered. A
year later, when he was 10, he
ran away with carnival, and
has been on his own ever since.
81 didn't exactly run away"
ne qualified. 81 asked my father,
md he let me go. thinking I'd be
nesick In a day or two and
Bme back"
g Young Selden started water
ing the animals. sweeping out
Offices and practicing acrobatics
In his spare time. He got some
schooling in winter and even
took a correspondence course IN
engineering, which helped him
design and build the steel pole
on which he risks his neck
He made only one mistake
the first pole he had was too
light and one night II bent over
until the tip looked like a horse
shoe. He hung on, climbed up
and then down around the bend.
II should have been q terrific
thrill for the audience, but they
apparently thought ii was part
OF the act and didn't recognize
the life-and-death drama that
they were watching.
Selden's most astounding trick
Ito mel is sitting IN a chair
which is balanced by its back
legs on a trapeze 90 feet up. II
isn't fastened some adhesive
tape wrapped around the trapeze
bar TO keep IL from being slip
pery is the only equipment be-
sides the chair itself.
IL Just swing my legs" Selden
said. and took an ordinary chair
And sat in il. balanced on IFS
BACK legs. But" he added. ITS
harder To do on n solid floor.
It's much easier for me on
trapeze!"
In winter Selden lives with his
mother on North Larch street.
Lansing. His wife, also an aer-
I.lirA utnr killnd q dozen wears