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Stone Cold Dead is the biggest Calypso hit since Rum & Coca-Cola (TIME, Jan. 29, 1945). It is also the first big success of 45-year-old Wilmoth Houdini, a Brooklyn-born Trinidad Negro who lives in Manhattan's Harlem half the year, the other half in Trinidad. Houdini, who has recorded 800 Calypso songs, expects to make $40,000 from...
...Clifford W. Ashley, "the simple act of tying a knot is an adventure in unlimited space." He never saw Houdini or a successful lynching. But he once halted an operation in Boston to see how the surgeon made his stitches fast...
...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...