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...minute." One by one a set of types troupes in to see the quack magician, Subtle, in search of it is they want--money, women, success. Dapper (Stephen Kolzak) is a boring dandy of an accountant who wants to be successful as a gambler; he winds up with a blindfold over his eyes, gingerbread stuffed in his mouth, and a dead mouse in his fist. Drugger (Denis Pelli) is an honest tob acconist who wants his shop to prosper; Pelli stammers and shuffles cringingly enough, but it's a little disturbing to see Jonson make fun of someone simply because...
...were more flustered. The U.J.A. fund raisers were kept aboard their bus for two hours by Egyptian soldiers while the colonel tried to decide what to do with his catch. Finally, he decided that the group should go to army headquarters in Ismailia for interrogation and asked them to blindfold themselves with handkerchiefs or coats. "Most of us used handkerchiefs," said Howard Stone, a full-time U.J.A. official in New York City. "It was easier to peek that way." Cracked one American as the bus drove off: "Now remember, you are only required to disclose your name, last year...
Murphy was forced to blindfold himself with strips of adhesive tape; then he was dumped into the trunk of a car and taken to a house about an hour's drive from his own. Meanwhile the kidnaper, who called himself a "colonel" of the A.R.A., telephoned word of the abduction to Constitution Managing Editor G. James Minter and to WAGA-TV. "We've got Reg Murphy, editor of the Constitution, "the caller told a TV newsman. "Don't bother to call the FBI. It won't help...
...Murphy was released in a suburban Atlanta Ramada Inn and ordered to keep wearing his blindfold until he could no longer hear the sounds of the kidnapers' cars. Then he phoned home. Arriving at his front door minutes later in the glare of TV lights, Murphy said shakily: "It's very important that at this moment they [the kidnapers] understand that they have not won a real victory. They have frightened me very badly and they have frightened my family. But they should know that they won't get the country turned around this way." Asked...
Another Russian lady, Rosa Kuleshova, can "read" with her fingertips while securely blindfolded. James Randi, analyzing photographs of Kuleshova, promptly announced that her act was "a fraud." To prove his point, he invited testers to blindfold him with pizza dough, a mask and a hood. Then he proceeded to drive a car in traffic. "I won't tell you how I did it," he says. "But it was not parapsychologically. It was pure deception, just as hers was." Such revelations have not deterred the parapsychologists in the U.S.S.R. or elsewhere. They freely concede that many of their subjects do sometimes...