Word: magician
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Next, while the voters pressed close to the porch rail to watch, the official ceremoniously counted the blank ballots. Then he picked up the varnished wooden ballot box, held it aloft like a magician doing a trick. "Is it empty?" he asked. "Empty, empty," came the chorused reply. "There is no cheating?" "No cheating," chanted the voters, "no cheating." Sharp at 8 a.m., the official called the name of the first voter, a wizened, crippled man of 95. He limped to the palm-leaf voting booth, spread the ballot over a sandbag, hesitated for several minutes, then carefully punched...
About fifteen years ago the Ibis atop the Lampoon building took one of its sporadic off-season flgihts. It reappeared a few evenings later on a stage when Blackstone the Magician lifted a silk cloth. A cry of dismay was heard in the balcony as thirty humorists, lured to the theater by free tickets, scrambled toward the steps to retrieve the bird. Backstage at the Colonial Theatre last Saturday, Blackstone recalled the theft and chuckled "We should do it again...
...abandon, however, the most astounding of his stunts, the vanishing elephant. The beast was too big for road trips. A horse proved more mobile. With Blackstone in the saddle, the horse galloped into a tent which then collapsed. When the tent was removed, their stood the magician with the saddle in his hand. Years ago when he visited Cairo, the vanishing horse became a disappearing camel...
After the performance on Saturday, Blackstone remained in his dressing room recounting his adventures to some admirers--a pastime, his wife said, which could last all night. The magician narrated a trip he once made to Washington, "When Coolidge was playing there...
...inevitability of fate-that also suggested John O'Hara's Appointment in Samarra. The doom-dodger in this some-what Oriental tale of French circus life is a much-besought tamer of tigers (Jan Farrand), who, fearing the future, gazes into the crystal ball of the magician (Louis Jourdan). In two flash-forwards, the ball reveals that on her next birthday -whether she marries a juggler or a millionaire-she must perish in a steamship disaster. Finally, because his own future is the one thing the ball lacks the power to foretell, she marries the magician, who adores...