Word: houdini
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Gold Coast Orchestra will play several selections and there will be an act of legerdemain by W. S. Warner '32 assisted by Ellery Sedgewick '32, who will stage an escape from a packing-box and handcuffs, a type of stage magic made famous by Houdini. J. S. B. Archer '30 will also be heard in several songs. After the concert there will be general dancing, with the music furnished by the Gold Coast Orchestra...
Wilhelmina Houdini has waited three and one-half years for word from her late husband Harry, magician and ghostbuster. Before he died he promised to communicate with her from the grave if possible. Many have been her attempts, all futile, to talk with him. Often she has been approached by mediums who claimed spiritual contact, but she knew they were all faking. She and Houdini prearranged a code, in which no medium has yet brought word from...
Last week, her patience exhausted, Mrs. Houdini announced that she has lost all hope of effecting contact with her husband, that his attempt to Houdinize-himself from the (a) spirit world has been a failure, that this is another proof that Spiritualism is all fakery. Spiritualists retorted that it proved nothing. Some even charged that Houdini's spirit is being stubborn...
Levon West, born in South Dakota 30 years ago, is a descendant of Benjamin West, Colonial and British painter. He likes to wander amid the lonely buttes and lakes of the Northwest, hunting and sketching, when he is not doing Houdini tricks with cards or taking rabbits out of the pockets of his friends. He watched the aviators on Long Island preparing for the flight to Paris in the spring of 1927. He came to know Charles Augustus Lind bergh, and etched his portrait directly on copper plate from memory, aided by a photograph, the day Lindbergh landed in Paris...