Word: magic
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Birmingham is almost a T. C. I. creation. When General Sherman marched to the sea, Birmingham was part cornfield, part foul-smelling swamp. In the '70s some damyankee speculators swooped down, began exploiting the rich, freak coal, iron and limestone deposits. Called "The Magic City," Birmingham spent its youth in filth, poverty, lawlessness. At one time it was called The Murder Capital of the World. When control of T. C. I. switched to U. S. Steel in 1907, Birmingham began to grow up. Slowly, painfully, the town spread out, cleaned up. Bursting with faith in the city...
...Book. Equally important fact: few writers know how to tell a story. Story-weaving is a craft old as flax-weaving, decorative as peasant embroidery, difficult as silversmithing. Thus old tales like The Thousand and One Nights, the fabliaux, The Canterbury Tales, the Grimms' folk stories have a magic rarely found in latter ages. That this magic is less a patina than the product of skill and feeling is shown by the occasional appearance of a real storyteller's story. Such is Franz Werfel's Embezzled Heaven...
...revealed that his greatest pleasure lies in hoodwinking audiences; in fact , hoodwinking has become his hobby, even in private life. Dante's real name is Harry Jansen, under which name he once worked with Thurston, to whom he considers himself the logical successor as the leading light of American magic...
Stanford has hailed several great coaches in its half-century of football: Walter Camp, Fielding Yost, Jim Lanagan, Pop Warner. But rare is the magic touch that has been Clark Shaughnessy's this year. A year ago, in his seventh season at the University of Chicago, Coach Shaughnessy's Maroons were the joke of the football world. At the end of the season, when President Robert M. Hutchins abolished intercollegiate football at Chicago, 48-year-old Clark Shaughnessy, a full professor of physical education at $9,000 a year, had to choose between teaching calisthenics or taking whatever...
...genius at offensive strategies. Coach Shaughnessy promptly put the old fight into last year's wooden Indians. Stanford's marveling alumni wondered if they had hired a magician. But it was not magic but music that turned Stanford into a winning team. An accomplished pianist once headed for the concert stage, Coach Shaughnessy works out his plays to music. Basis for his system is a waltz rhythm: e.g., on an off-tackle play, the back getting the ball counts one-two-three steps, turns on his outside foot for balance, hits the line of scrimmage at the point...