Word: magic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hunch-players in Italy's weekly lottery often consult a handy handbook called the cabala which gives the magic numbers associated with certain objects and events. In Naples last week bettors staked nearly half a million lire on a combination 16 (funeral), 22 (flags), 81 (flowers) and 38 (beatings). The hunch-players were impelled toward this combination by events that followed the death of one Angelo Cicatiello, an obscure and contented man in life...
...last week's lottery drawing the magic numbers 16-22-81-38 failed...
...great day had come at last. At 5:25 one gloomy morning last week, a tall, husky girl in an old green bathing suit strode down to the beach at Cap Gris Nez, France. Well displayed across her ample bosom were the words "Black Magic." She dunked a toe in the icy waters, announced that she was not really scared, and struck out in the general direction of Dover, England. For fame, for fortune, and for Scripps-Howard and United Artists, grease-coated, 17-year-old Shirley May France of Somerset, Mass. was trying to swim the English Channel...
...pressagent's dream, and it had been largely dreamed up by pressagents. For her busty boost to the movie Black Magic, United Artists was paying Shirley May ?1,000 ($4,000), which she could not take out of Britain. Scripps-Howard's Newspaper Enterprise Association had anted up some $2,500 in dollars for the exclusive rights to Shirley May's byline and to feature picture coverage. Other wire services, newspapers and magazines had assigned 80 reporters and photographers to cover Shirley...
...center marbles. Basking more or less uncomfortably in Welles's reflected flamboyance is a cast of thousands, headed by Nancy Guild, Valentina Cortesa, Akim Tamiroff and Stephen Bekassy, and draped in 70 million lire worth of costumes. As a brutal assertion of quantity over quality Black Magic exerts a kind of hypnotic fascination; otherwise it is chiefly remarkable as a triumph of matter over mind...