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...continues with a mean-spirited quasi-eulogy of the man who was Chaps half-owner: "Chaps is--or was--half-owned by a fellow named Mario M. Mattei. Two unsurprising facts about Mario: He lived on Appleton Street and AIDS killed...
NINE YEARS AGO Nathan M. Pusey came to Harvard from Lawrence College in Appleton, Wisconsin, to become President of an enormous institution built on layer after layer of sedimented traditions. A slow and delicate play of subterranean forces had brought it to its current stature, a vast and complex machinery that it would be foolish to meddle with too deeply. The University might change, but it would have to change more through a process of natural evolution than through administrative decisions initiating and guiding change...
...youngster growing up in the 1870s, Appleton was probably a pretty interesting place. "Wisconsin had so many circuses back then," observes Oscar Boldt, president of the Boldt Holding Corp., "and when they unloaded the elephants, there was excitement, real excitement, the sort of excitement you could feed off for months." Today some kids in Appleton still feed off the excitement evoked by the name Houdini. Thirteen-year-old Bill Brehm, an aspiring magician, is one of them. "I'd like to know how he did some of his tricks," confides Brehm, who has started practicing Houdini-inspired handcuff escapes. "Like...
...Houdini," reflects Dr. Thomas Loescher, Appleton's chief emergency- room physician, "was probably the greatest magician who ever lived: the drama, the presentation, the superb physical ability, the personality. I've always felt proud he was from Appleton. It's living in reflected glory, I guess." It wasn't until 1985 that the city finally got around to honoring its most celebrated citizen, dedicating its new downtown plaza in his honor. The house where the Weiss family used to live stood just to one side, notes William A. Brehm Jr., a card-carrying magician who is also the city...
...speed of the change is what enraptures. Magician Doug Henning and his wife Debby observed Houdini's birthday by paying Appleton a visit last spring. Performing Metamorphosis right in front of the sculpture, they made the switch in a dazzling third of a second. Sculptor Richard Wolter, who lives in Appleton, was thrilled. Says he: "Magic brings to life the wonder our age somehow has lost...