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ELLEN SZALINSKI -- Chicago...
DIED. JAY MARSHALL, 85, magician-ventriloquist dubbed the Dean of Magic by the Society of American Magicians; in Chicago. An opening act for performers from Frank Sinatra to Milton Berle and a frequent guest on the Ed Sullivan Show, he would banter with his brash puppet, Lefty, and perform signature tricks like the Jaspernese Thumb Tie, in which his crossed thumbs, securely interlocked, penetrated spectators' legs, chairs and other objects...
...Treasury Department under President George H. W. Bush. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, he also took on positions at the Cambridge-based National Bureau of Economic Research and at the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative Washington think tank. He also spent a year at the University of Chicago as a visiting professor in 1994 before assuming a professorship at Columbia...
Gordon began his undergraduate studies at the University of Chicago but transferred to Reed College and graduated with a degree in history along with philosophy. He went on to do his graduate work at the University of California at Berkeley...
...With reporting by Melissa August / Washington; Amanda Bower and Deirdre van Dyk / New York; Jeanne McDowell / Los Angeles; Siobhan Morrissey / Boca Raton; Betsy Rubiner / Des Moines; and Leslie Whitaker / Chicago...