Word: houdini
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...voices and ghosts, make casts of invisible hands, as well as the slickest mediums. But he claims no supernatural powers, relies only on his 25 years of practice in prestidigitation and his knowledge of science. It was to Magician Dunninger that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Thomas Edison and Harry Houdini left secret messages before their deaths to test the possibility of communication with a world of spirits. One medium's version of Edison's message: "My niece, Betty. Where are you? Boop. Boop. Boop...
Handsome, snow-haired Mrs. Harry Houdini pshawed at suggestions she might communicate with her late, great magician husband. "Plenty of other women say they have heard from him but I have not. And that," explained she, "does not sound like Houdini...
...There was one challenge that famed Escapist Harry Houdini would never accept: he would never allow his thumbs to be tied behind his back by a Gloucester fisherman...
...Great Herrmann, not Kellar, not Thurston, not Houdini was able to make a good thing of a magic show on Broadway, and for the past 13 years Broadway has seen no full-size illusionist's performance. Undaunted, a miraculous hoodwinker who looks a little like Satan on stage and a little like Buffalo Bill off, who used to call himself The Great Jansen and who now bills himself as Dante, sailed into the Times Square district last week and set up Sim Sola Bim, a "mystery spectacle." Widely advertised as meaning "thanks to you" in Danish, Sim Sala...