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TO ALL THE PROFESSIONAL AND semi-pro jugglers in the USA: I cannot get my local phone company to create a heading of "Jugglers" in the Yellow Pages! Yet, "Magicians" exists as do a few other seemingly specialized headings! (We only had one magician listed in our phone book, how about yours?)

Let's put pressure on the phone company (Yellow Pages) to get a heading for jugglers, too. Anyone who has a business line (either primarily for juggling or for a self-owned small business like mine) can put this pressure on the Yellow Pages to wake up to the large number of jugglers in this country!

There is some sort of national policy on this problem of creating new headings, so you may have to really insist that they apply for it. But it will be worth it if we jugglers can get our deserved place in the Yellow Pages!

Otherwise, let's have our feet "do the walking" all over their fingers in the Yellow Pages!

Charlie Willer - Fort Wayne, Indiana

CONNECTING BOOMERANGS AND juggling, I'd suggest 'rangs with a symmetric airfoil. This enables you to throw the same 'rang with right or left hand. Two bladers of this type have a range of 10-15 meters (made with the right wood and well trimmed) - perhaps too much to be practical for a juggler.

What I'd suggest is a small (8-9 inch) pinwheel (six blader) in light wood with symmetric airfoil. This'll get you: short range (3-5 meters) accurate return, easy catch, and graceful and fairly slow flight. With some of those you'd follow a horizontal plane in juggling instead of vertical.

As to doing 'rangs in a juggling act, the only people I've heard of to use them is the Flying Karamazovs. I got the impression, though, that they juggled them just as you would any bent stick. I never heard of anyone using boomerangs as boomerangs in a juggling act.

Lasse Camevall - Kungalv, Sweden

CAUGHT THE ACT OF THE RASPINI Brothers (Barry Freidman and Dan Holzman) recently with . 'The Flying Three Ring Rainbow" at the Grand Opera House on Galveston Island.

Barry and Dan get this reporter's vote for being one of the best duos. Continuous chatter while juggling with near flawless technique. Three club routine with many moves and take-aways , including very funny stuff with an apple and carrot.

Three lacrosse balls with fancy moves and head rolls. Airline emergency routine with oxygen mask, paper bag, etc. (hard to describe). Barry does three torches with lots of fire, then a nose balance with a fourth, which drops into a good four routine.

Six torch passing, the five club passing with two extra clubs on the floor at Barry's feet. These are kicked over one at a time to Dan without losing a beat, which gets them into six and seven. Shoulders, overhands, through legs, around the back. Then into a real goody, back-to-back with seven clubs!

Three knife take-aways while eating and exchanging apple and carrot. Put a stooge from the audience in the middle for good comedy passing of six knives. Finale: six knife passing with volunteer while spinning ring on ankle and large ball on mouth stick!

Bob Blau - Pearland, Texas

JUST A NOTE OF INQUIRY FOR A new section in Juggler's World. How about a section dealing with juggling jokes and gags for all to contribute as source material to for those comically inclined. Just a thought, see if it will fly.

Franklin Hargraves - Wilno, Ontario, Canada

(Ed. note - Is anyone willing to contribute? Jokes should be your own, not those heard from others.)