Cover: drawing by George Niedzialkowski

Features

Juggling and Health

Sure it's physically healthy, but there's a lot of good going on inside your head as well!

Francis Brunn

As this living legend approaches fifty years in show business, he continues to make plans for the future.

Avner the Eccentric

This ardent juggler tells how theatrical skills were what really paid off in his increasingly successful career.

The Coming Together of Hands

Fiction about an old trooper, notes on the mirror and very fertile soil in his garden.

Departments

Letters

• Please don't shoot the jugglers - Sandy Brown
• Up from the Ashes - Ro Lutz-Nagey
• Kudos - Jim Lord
• Hawaiian happenings - David Hart
• Cascade across America? - Frank Cardamone
• Auxiliarists unite! - Hamilton Floyd
• On the Road Again - Barrett Felker
• Looking back with microfiche - Wes Kobylak

News

• Romans crown Gatto on dawn of his teen years
• Franco prevails at London championships
• New numbers rules should benefit competitors
• Jacobs to teach weekend club swinging workshop
• New Hampshire regional rounds out spring schedule
• Key West buskers plan street festival
• Top talent signs on for convention public show
• Marlin manipulates on TV, balances on ball in ballet
• Las Vegas report
• No top prizes for jugglers at Monte Carlo festival
• Unicyclists rate juggling as a top interest in survey

Tips

• Parlor Tricks - Rupert Ingalese
• Don't let 'em catch until they can throw! - Larry Vaksman
• Jingling juggling - Brian Fellingham

All our Yesterdays

Joe Cook, Epitome of One-Man Variety.

Joggler's Jottings

Definitely not a ghost story about a graveyard.

Book Reviews

Juggling: The Art and Its Artists

Karl-Heinz Ziethen and Andrew Allen.
Ziethen and Allen collaborate on a juggling art book you'll be proud to put on your coffee table.

How To Build Unicycles and Artistic Bicycles (2nd edition)

Jack Wiley

Festivals

Second Annual Hawaiian Vaudeville Festival

If you haven't heard about the Hawaiian festival yet, this is must reading!

Circus Magic '86

Virginia Beach, Virginia

8th Annual Groundhog Day Jugglers Festival

Atlanta, Georgia

Upcoming Festivals

Schedules and contact information for upcoming festivals.

Meetings

New affiliate leader plans publication for clubs.

Entertainers

Who's performing where.

Classified

Classified advertisements.

Poem

Simple Holdings, by Robert Hill Long