Word: houdini
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Another musical, Jimmy, profiles the last really Fun Mayor of Fun City, Jimmy Walker. Broadway's unceasing penchant for self-celebration will provide a whole clutch of musicals, among them Hocus-Pocus (Harry Houdini) and W.C. (Fields could have thought of a better title). The Girls Upstairs is a tale of Ziegfeld Girls who have passed their prime, and Shubert Alley is about the three brothers who gave Broadway some of its more pungent history...
Throughout its 120-year history as a state, Wisconsin has held an improbable rendezvous with the bizarre. It has given the world Thorsten Veblen and the Ringling brothers, Jack Lemmon and Joe McCarthy, Billy Mitchell and Frank Lloyd Wright, Edna Ferber and Harry Houdini. The state's contributions to American education include the first kindergarten and the first panty raid. It is the birthplace of the Gideon Society and the Republican Party...
Plenty of basketball players can pass behind their backs, fake like Houdini, and riffle the net from 20 ft. But Rodney King Thorn, a gangling (6 ft. 4 in., 180 Ibs.) youth of 21, is probably the only one whose talents called forth a special resolution from his home-state legislature. In solemn session, the lawmakers classified him as "a great natural resource," begged him to attend the local university "to further develop his natural athletic ability for the use and benefit of the State and its 2,000,000 citizens...
...special poolside event of the afternoon featured a diving exhibition, a Houdini sack act by varsity swimmer Robert J. Price '64 (he escaped from his sack after one minute of submersion), and a display of water nonsense by muscled and artificially ballasted "lassies" from Radcliffe...
...camouflage as an army deserter. His first headline break came after his conviction for the safe job (Scotland Yard has yet to trace $90,000 worth of stolen jewelry). After Alfie slipped through locked doors and over a 20-ft. wall at Nottingham Prison, he became known as "Houdini" Hinds, spent eight happy months on the loose in Europe and Ireland, where he had set up shop as a builder-decorator when the Yard caught up with...