Professor Ajax: Crowned Heads and Coney Island
A gingerly nod of the head today to Joseph Milana (1884-1959), a.k.a. Ajax the Great, Professor Ajax or the Mighty Ajax. A native of Washington DC, Milana began working in dime museums as a teenager training pigeons, presumably for magic acts. Around the turn of the century he taught himself sword swallowing, initially travelling with […]