Word: magic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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East Indies. If there is a fault, it lies in the question: How much of a good thing is bearable? The little girl is surrounded by servants who know more than their place; they know their background of overriding superstition in which native magic is more powerful than any white man's god. They obey their masters and know their masters' weaknesses. Their own lives encompass an area to which the white folks have no pass, and it is one of Author Dermout's virtues that she can suggest this life without dragging the reader through kitchens...
...bore. The pre recorded songs seem unable to locate Lanza's lips, and some of the arias might even have been scraped off old Lanza sound tracks. The only new number, a "Jamaican rock 'n' roll" item called Pineapple Pickers, summons little of the old Mario magic and all of the old mannerisms: aggressive smile, athletic nostrils, orbiting eyeballs and quivering poundage...
Then last week a stranger came to town, Otto D. Standke by name, 5 ft. 7 in. tall, 71 years old, with hokum in his manner and magic in his bones. Starlings? There's a way to get rid of them. Step a little closer and we'll talk terms. Mount Vernon stepped a little closer, saw the shimmering words on the stranger's golden tie pin. He was, by self-proclamation, THE BIRD...
Whether this constitutes medical magic by a man ahead of his time or dangerous charlatanry is hotly debated. But that it has won fame and fortune for Dr. Niehans there is no doubt. Born in Bern, son of a professor of orthodox medicine, Niehans studied for the Protestant ministry before turning to medicine. He practiced conventional surgery and endocrinology until the late 19205. Then he got interested in transplanting organs from animals to humans. (By no coincidence, this was at the height of the late Serge Voronoff's vogue as a transplanter of monkey testicles.) In 1931 Dr. Niehans...
Died. Jean Hugard, 86, the magician who first performed the risky bullet-catching act that later cost twelve imitators their lives, founded (1943) Hugard's Magic Monthly, a magician's trade magazine, which he continued to publish after going blind seven years ago; in Brooklyn...