In Manhattan, Sam Brawermann. 32, retired buttonhole maker, advertised Science & Invention, amused Union Square crowds by squeezing through the model of a keyhole, 6½ in. wide, 12½ in. long. Nimble Mr. Brawermann then tore the strings out of a tennis racquet, climbed through the frame. Next he took off his shirt, lay on a bed of 1,200 spikes, permitted people to walk over him. When he got up his skin was unbroken. Five feet five inches tall, weighing 150 lb., Mr. Brawermann said that he had never been on the stage, had...
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