Word: magic
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Roosevelt political magic was still at work-adroit and fluent as ever, he somehow managed to make Federal spending merely a matter of building schools, and to link free education with his administration in untroubled defiance of the shades of Noah Webster and Horace Mann. This was as effective an answer as he had yet made to Wendell Willkie's charge that a continuation of New Deal policies meant a new economic system in the U. S. -but it was an answer, and it was effective...
...title is derived from Harlow's first disastrous spring practice at a Harvard, indifferent to the point of hostility. It was in 1935, and according to Harlow, "I was stunned. . . . Something was wrong. These boys evidently expected their coach to brew some magic formula to waft the other team away before each game in the fall. . . . They didn't need coaching; it was a matter of psychology...
...strong arm of the intrepid Cambridge Police Department for three hours yesterday, as F. Cameron Ludwig '42, fumed and raged. His car blocked in a driveway on Plympton Street by a black Ford coupe, Ludwig was frustrated in his attempts to remove the obstacle by means of a jack, magic, or brute strength...
...Great Herrmann, not Kellar, not Thurston, not Houdini was able to make a good thing of a magic show on Broadway, and for the past 13 years Broadway has seen no full-size illusionist's performance. Undaunted, a miraculous hoodwinker who looks a little like Satan on stage and a little like Buffalo Bill off, who used to call himself The Great Jansen and who now bills himself as Dante, sailed into the Times Square district last week and set up Sim Sola Bim, a "mystery spectacle." Widely advertised as meaning "thanks to you" in Danish, Sim Sala...
...Harry Jansen prides himself on being one of the line of magical great ones, is known to his intimates as "Pop." He has been Dante since 1922. Born in Copenhagen, he went to the U. S. at the age of six, started out as a magician in St. Paul, Minn., after watching The Great Herrmann do his stuff at the opera house there. Besides operating a show of his own, Jansen at one time ran a magic shop in Chicago. Eventually Jansen helped Thurston produce his shows. Shortly thereafter, Thurston and Jansen formed a corporation named Dante the Magician...