Word: houdini
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rush to his billiard rooms and grab a cue. He was as good as ever-but only for a few minutes at a time. He worked on fancy shots, mastered the mysteries of angles and ballspin, became the game's Fancy Dan, a combination cue-and-ivory Houdini and amiable Billy Sunday, who evangelized for the game...
...late, great prestidigitator Harry Houdini, famed foe of phony mediums, and his wife Beatrice agreed before his death to try to get in touch with each other afterwards. Gravely ill last week in Hollywood, his widow announced that she had not only given up trying but had her doubts about the existence of a hereafter. She had held seances every year for ten years, unsuccessfully. "Ten years," observed patient Mrs. Houdini last week, "is long enough to wait...
Squirming about on the floor, on treating big Audy Guadielle to "gie it ta me good," the plaid-shirted Houdini, bearing the best of references from Yale, Princeton, and Penn, kept up a steady stream of Scotch brogue while he struggled out of the knots in two seconds flat. Not letting the program leg for a minute, he then broke out into some ballads lauding bonnie Scotland's "nicht nichts" and "Maxwellton's bracs...
Died. Mina Stinson Crandon, 53, better known as "Margery" the medium whose claims of psychic communication with the dead raised serious controversy from 1924 to 1935; in Boston. Sir Oliver Lodge, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle believed in her; Harry Houdini offered $5,000 to charity if she produced any "manifestations" which he could not duplicate. Charity never got the money. Before Houdini died in 1926 he said he would communicate with the living after his death if he could, and Magician Joseph M. Dunninger awaited a "message" on every anniversary of his death. "Margery" died the day after the 15th...
...referring to Mr. Joseph Dunninger, conjurer and self-styled expert on psychic investigation, it is stated that "Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Thomas Edison and Harry Houdini left secret messages (with him) before their deaths to test the possibility of communication with a world of spirits." Now I cannot speak for Mr. Edison or Mr. Houdini, but I do know for an absolute fact that so far as my father is concerned there is not one word of truth in this statement...