Show V r s I y I 0 And Then There There's s The One About the Bull libbing Ad-libbing of Gail Plummer capable master master master mas mas- ter of ceremonies at the recent faculty assembly assembly assembly assem assem- bly as was fascinating to say the least While scenes pianos et al ai were being shifted backstage backstage backstage back back- stage 1 Herr en Plummer mystified the audience with a simple handkerchief act Pointing one finger in the air he covered it with a flourish of his handkerchief performed some convincing convincing convincing ing hocus-pocus hocus and presto he had two fingers fingers fingers fin fin- gers in the air But speaking of hocus-pocus hocus they're still talking about the act Eddie Cochran on the Nadyne Cochran-Nadyne magician team now performing perform perform- ing in the Empire room put on for patrons of an Arizona rodeo last year First of all showing a one-dollar one bill to the crowd and passing it among several hundred on lookers who copied the serial number Eddie cut the bill into possibly possibly possibly pos pos- sibly one hundred pieces passing the minute scraps again among many witnesses Collecting these pieces he tamped them into a cartridge shell loaded it and had one of the local cowboys fire it into a nearby tree Then Eddie apparently fallen into a trance was heard to mumble Chute seven chute seven kill the steer kill the steer in chute seven stomach its it's in the stomach Following these incoherent directions handlers slaughtered the steer in chute seven Cutting open its stomach to the amazement of thousands in the audience they found a dollar bill Not an ordinary dollar bill but a well masticated dollar bill bearing the identical serial numbers to those copied by more than two hundred people present And anyone I knows know that serial numbers are never The bill was displayed for several weeks I in the lobby of a Tucson hotel but no one I yet has even guessed the solution The story goes that since Eddies Eddie's trick and he admits it itis itis itis is a tri trick k trees around Southern Arizona have been filled with from dollar bills bills' but no one yet has found another in the belly of a steer |