I had advertised in the Boston Phoenix newspaper for a street performing partner. Peter responded.
We did a little street together, but parted ways. I went on tho be a cast member of “Catch a Rainbow” ABC television.

And in 1979 did the first New England Mime Festival in Greenfield, Mass.
A year or two later Peter called and invited me to his New England Mime Festival.
We ended up doing Abbott and Scalise. We toured nationally from colleges to festivals.

We created Pipo and Giuseppe’, two commedia characters with false noses. People loved us.

We did a performance at the Lincoln Center Plaza and John Towsen of New York Clown festival said-”I have never seen such genuine pathos done on the street.”

We had an audience with mt friend-Marcel Marceau at the Wilbur theater in Boston-Marcel loved our work and called Peter a “Great Clown”.

Peter went to Paris in 1984 and ended up with Benneweis Circus at the Tivoli gardens. I went to Greece and when I returned I formed the Wright Brothers Comedy troupe.

Peter went back to Denmark where after taking bite of an apple died of heart failure in his dressing room

At Peter’s memorial at Mechanics Hall I did a eulogy as Giuseppe in which I suggested that he would some day “Reinclownate.”

Jody Scalise

As the Cold War got underway, fears of the Soviet press along with rumors of a larger one in construction (a 55,000 ton press) prompted the United States Air Force to implement a program for a much larger press. The Air Force heavy press program was instituted, and at the cost of $279m (1955 dollars) two 50,000 ton presses by the Mesta Machine Company of Pittsburgh were built. One was installed in the Cleveland area to be operated by Alcoa, and the other was installed in Grafton to be operated by Wyman-Gordon. Both presses are still in operation, the Wyman-Gordon press has forged many components for large aircraft including the 747 over the years. The Alcoa press is currently employed in making the aluminum alloy bulkheads for the new F-35 fighter jet.