Roanoke Times
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DATE: SATURDAY, March 21, 1992 TAG: 9203210298
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A typewriter, a card table, a wheelbarrow: If it weighs less than 125 pounds, Dave Klemczak can probably spin it on the tip of his finger.
"I'll spin any part that can come off a car," said Klemczak, 27, of Butte Falls, Ore. "Hood, battery, headlights, wheels, windshield."
To demonstrate, Klemczak walked through offices Wednesday at the Josephine County Fairgrounds, where he sells Shrine Circus tickets by phone, and picked up a card table and a telephone book, setting them spinning at the same time.
That done, he hurled a rusty wheelbarrow into the air, upside-down, and set it to whirling with one hand. On the other hand, he spun its wheel. Then a couple of suitcases. A chair. A saw.
"I've never dropped or broke anything yet," he said. "I dropped a saw, but it wasn't my fault. There was butter on it."
He has showcased his dizzying talent on "Late Night with David Letterman," "Good Morning America," and "That's Incredible." And he's supposed to spin a volleyball for a beer commercial.
"I told them I'd spin a case of beer, but all they want me to do is a volleyball," he said.
"I'll just go into a grocery store, and I'll spin all the food in it," he said. "Basically, they freak out. They think it's magic. They think there's something on my finger."
As he spoke, he spun a section of carpet, causing dirt and grit to whirl off.
"There, it's clean now," he said.
\ Monty Hall has gotten hundreds of awards over the years, but he was especially pleased to be honored by Pacific Pioneer Broadcasters for his philanthropy.
"When you are honored by your peers it is really exciting," the longtime host of "Let's Make a Deal" said before joining more than 800 radio and television pioneers for the lunch celebration Friday.
\ Art Linkletter, Norm Crosby and Peter Marshall were among the guests at the Studio City gathering of broadcast veterans.
Hall was chosen to receive the non-profit group's plaque in recognition of his charity work worldwide. Previous recipients include Bob Hope, Steve Allen and Gary Owens.
\ Dr. William Kennedy Smith will begin his medical residency at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque this summer, the school said Thursday. Smith had postponed starting the program last year while he successfully defended himself against a rape charge.
Smith will join 19 other incoming first-year internal medicine residents in June, according to a university statement. He had been scheduled to begin last June.
Smith, 31, nephew of Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass, was acquitted in December in West Palm Beach, Fla., of charges he raped a woman at the Kennedy estate last Easter weekend. Smith graduated from Georgetown University Medical School last year.
by CNB