Daily News from New York, New York • 47

1-a JMMM WELL, FOR MifVM Ml 6000NBSS' SAKE! vfc 6 WlTH THE DYE BRUSH POISED, SHE LEANS OVER THE BRENPA STARR NAM A NIGHT LAY OUT THE HAIR DYEING lAAtsr iip Akin nick! vniti? 1 MST CAN'T BELIEVE I PARAPHERNAL I A dlJ E4P THIS NflX 175 77 hlO A lI'J vT ,0 ll NOTHING LIKE, Will A GABBY LITTLE NURSE SPREADING IT AROUND TOWN ssgrs irafasf THAT NO-NC'S RAVEN BLACK LOCKS HAVE ROOTS CF A DIFFER- 1 ii 1 11 i a ENT, COLOR! OS S3 to Ci (D) town By CHARLES Mc HARRY- By ROBERT SYLVESTER The Gentle Giant A circus giant, as you would expect, has big troubles, and tall man Eddie Carmel is no exception. Eddie, 8-feet-7 and currently on view at the Garden, rides the subway to and from his home in the Too Much Too Soon For almost two years Palisades Park has worked on a plan to have a baby elephant born on the grounds during the course of the Clyde Beatty Circus, which annually opens the park. Months Bronx but he is fearful of having his neck slashed by the overhead Inside a four-foot-wide plexiglass globe, Paris is now showing the most expensive book in the world. Valued at $200,000 and weighing 250 pounds, this unique copy of "The Apocalypse of Saint John" is written and illustrated on 200 pages of parchment chosen from 30,000 perfect sheepskins. The pages are turned electronically within the plastic sphere.

The machinery to do this and the chiseling of the jewel-studded, ER-AH-I AW r1-' I solid bronze covers demanded ago, a pregnant elepnant was located in Bombay. Experts figured the baby would be born this spring. Mother, whose name is Tanya, was to have been shipped here a month ago. A huge publicity campaign was planned and elephant experts contracted. Yesterday came the bad news.

Tanya couldn't wait for the circus. Her baby was born three weeks ago. The financial pages yesterday reported a dividend for the Dutch company N. V. Gemeenschappelijk Bezit van Aadeelen Phillips Gloeiampen-fabrieken.

You can also buy this stock as Phillips Lamp, 'thank goodness. Always one to combine elegance with economy, I must hurry down to Gimbels basement, which is offering "Executive Tyre Men's car fans. For Eddie, the fans are not overhead. Then there is bed- trouble, chair trouble, cab trouble, clothes trouble and girl trouble. Furthermore, he is not particularly happy with his work, and he is bitter about the vast proportions bestowed en him by prankish nature.

"It's a drag," he says, "to sit there and be stared at and hear the same silly questions over and over. About all they ever ask is "Are you for and 'Hey! Are you on stilts?" Eddie would rather be doing something "more useful and rewarding." He has made more than 30 TV films, all in monster roles, and one movie. "The Head That Would Not Die," again as a the services of seven times seven craftsmen. Seven artists, including Bernard Buffet and Salvador Dali, illustrated the book. Seven famous authors contributed the text to be translated into seven languages.

Backroom hero of this 20th Century masterpiece is 29-year-old woman calligrapher Michele She spent six months researching and designing the perfect lettering for the book and a ui ther two years writing out every word onto parchment pages by hand, as monks did before the age of printing. Eddie Carmel Suits" at $11.99. And if there is one magazine article which is required reading for me it must be Dr. Joseph H. Peck's "Life With Women and How to Survive It" in True magazine.

Sign of spring: A survey taken at the Cafe Wha -in Greenwich Village -Saturday night showed stockings outnumbered leotards two to one. Fellow we know was in a Third Ave. antique shop the other day when a girl came in and bought about $250 worth of items. She asked the shopkeeper if he would take a check. He asked for her identification and she showed him enough.

The name was Bernstein. "Perhaps you have heard of my husband, Leonard," said the lady. "He's a conductor." The shopkeeper studied the check. "A conductor?" he asked. "New Haven or Long- Island?" The Terminal barber shop in the Waldorf-Astoria naturally leans to swank and has an employe who does nothing but lead customers to the right chair.

A friend claims he went in there and goofed. "The haircut was all right," he admits, "hot I forgot to tip the maitre and wound up sitting behind a pole." Joe Louis is in town these days, thinned down and looking strong enough win back his heavyweight titlewhich some think he could. His interest in boxing these days, however, is second to a Set Bail for Dad In Child Kidnap Artist Milton Koland, 44, of Brewster, N. charged with ab ducting his badly burned daughter from Stamford, Hospital two weeks ago, was held in $2,500 bail yesterday in Stamford Superior Court on charges of enticing a minor and risking injury to new career. He's managing Gloria Lynn, a singer on an upbeat a minor, the child, Adrienne, 5, monster.

Yet, he doesn't want to be a monster any more than he wants to be a mere curiosity. He has unsuccessfully, to talk TV producers into giving him a show with and for children. "Kids love me," he says, "They flock to me like I was the Pied Piper. We could have a ball." Eddie also feels he may be able to find a niche as a gag writer, a poet or a singer. -His voice registers extremely low and.

has been used in a number of TV commercials. The only child of Miriam and Isaac Carmeli, of the Bronx, Eddie weighed 16 pounds at birth. At 10, he stood 8-foot-l, and at 16 he was He is 25 today and weighs 450 pounds. He began dieting several months ago when his weight exceeded 500. The big fellow was graduated from William H.

Taft HS and attended CCNY for two years. He was urged to play basketball in high school but declined on grounds that he hadn't enough speed and stamina. He later turned down pro bids for the same reason. Two years ago, a wrestling promoter signed Eddie and billed him as the champ of Israel. The idea was to have Eddie stomp around the ring, make monster faces and frighten opponents from the premises before they laid hand on him.

Eddie went through two or three matches on this basis but the easy-to-please customers, for once, balked. When his manager suggested Eddie and his opponents mix it up a bit, Eddie himself balked. "I wasn't an athlete," he explains. They could hurt me." Eddie works out at a gym regularly, swims and uses the steam room. He takes no special pills.

His breakfast consists of a dozen eggs, a pint of orange juice and you can go on from there. lie drinks but little and smokes sparingly. He sees a couple of movies a week, sitting in the loge where he can stretch his legs, and since the circus opened he has caught the second acts of a number of Broadway plays, standing at the rear of the house. He has a stamp collection and he reads quite a bit. He favors "honest" writers like Alexander King and he is a great fan of this paper's Bob Sylvester.

He considered Sylvester honest until I atraightened him out. The giant isn't sure that his abnormal growth was entirely due to glandular conditions. His father's grandfather, a rabbi in Poland, stood 7-feet-6. Girls? His size frightens most of them, he admits, and he has yet to meet the one who will accept him as a man, not a freak. He is fascinated by many aspects of the circus, but not by its people.

"All they talk about is sex and the show," he observes. He has a recurring dream, that of awakening one morning and finding himself only 6 feet tall. "It would be wonderful," he grins ruefully, "but I'm afraid I'm still growing." has been a ward of Connecticut whose new album is Glad There Is ion. Joe is determined to get her on some TV shows and if I were a TV producer I'd be afraid to and a hospital patient since refuse. March, 19fi0, when she burned Dr.

Carl Menninger, of the famous mental clinic, and his wife more than 50 of her body while playing with matches. She has been returned to Stamford Hos saw Mike Nichols and Elaine Maythe other night for the second time and went backstage to visit the entertainers. Both Mike and Elaine have analysts. Dr. Menninger invited the pair to visit his pital, where her condition has been described as good.

AND RF.STAl'RNTS 1 Toun clinic some day. "I wonder -what he meant by that?" Mike asked his partner. Remember "Three Little Fishes." that iddy-biddy song that drove us- all nuts years- ago? Well, it's been brought back on a Buzz Clifford record and in rock roll, yet. Peter Witt, who is an agent for theatre folk, reports that the income tax people gave him a hard time over the deductions he listed for business expenses. "You have no idea what it costs to be an he says he told the inquisitors.

"Why, 90ri of my income goes to my clients." Remember Odette Myrtil, cf vaudeville and the Broadway musicals? She's now owner of the River House in New Hope, Bucks County. Barney Balaban on why Paramount Pictures have concentrated on comedies: "People will go to see comedies because there's nothing to laugh at in the headlines any more." Herb Shriner has'a collection of antique cars. He says all he has to do now is find a collector -of antique parking spaces. When soprano Anna Moffo scored a hit fit the Met Opera recently, we were pained that Variety did not use the headline: "Moffo Boffo." can bat SHRIMP 4 BEEFEATER BEEFEATER- MA SIDEWALK CAFE the perfect martini made with imported BEEFEATER GIH ART CILLERY OLDEST VILLAGE LANDMARK Hi nborrt MINCN IISTAUIANT T-TimmWilftWiMin'fimmiir 10ND0H HIT tIN 54 C1AII MCSTIAL SPIIITS. KQBIANO COXPOSATlCJf, I.T.t.

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