Word: magician
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Before he was inducted at Fort Riley, Kans., in 1942, Delbert Eugene Hill was a professional entertainer in the U.S., billed as "America's Only Lady Magician." The Army put him in Special Services Division, shipped him off to England to amuse the Air Force. He did so well that he was once chosen to take part in a command performance before Queen Mary. By V-E day, he had become manager of the Burtonwood Air Base theater. Out of the blue, he received a reclassification notice; his new job was cleaning latrines...
Into the tanbark of the Moscow Circus rolled a huge papier-maché head with bulbous nose, watery blue eyes and a patch of wispy hair made of brambles. This, explained Russia's famed Magician Kio, was the head of the U.S. To show his audience what went on inside the head, Kio unscrewed the top. In jumped a masked gunman in evening clothes (U.S. literature), a Western badman (Hollywood), two fat chorus girls (the U.S. theater) and three dwarfs (the Truman Doctrine, the Marshall Plan, a slanderer of the U.S.S.R...
...Only a magician could have performed the feat that Harry Truman blithely promised the voters in his election campaign last fall. The President told farmers he would keep up their sky-high farm prices and he pledged consumers a painless cost of living. The man Harry Truman picked to do the trick was no magician, and not even a farmer. He was a bald, inconspicuous Colorado lawyer, Secretary of Agriculture Charles F. Brannan. Last week Brannan went before the House and Senate Agriculture Committees and solemnly pulled a rabbit out of his hat. Even as rabbits...
...McInnis has taught his apprentices to think and to field. He has a tremendous store of knowledge behind his sunburned, deadpan face. If he can draw from it to develop one more pitcher to match Godin, he will rank as a class A magician--not to mention coach...
Keep It Clean. The Latins from Manhattan (and sometimes from points as distant as Bethlehem, Pa.) queue up at the former fight arena with their families and their lunches, eager to pay admissions from $1.20 to $2 to see their favorites in three-a-day vaudeville shows. The magician who sawed the lady in half was merely a fillip to the Latin taste; the big draws are such stars of Mexico and South America as Cinemactors Jorge Negrete and Pedro Armendariz and Singer Libertad Lamarque...