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...believe in nuclear holocaust is pessimistic; to believe in conventional warfare or peace, optimistic; to say what will happen, stupidity. Perez C. Ehrich...
...greatest escape artist in history, and for Harry Houdini, existence itself was a search for escape. First he had to break away from his family; life on Manhattan's East Side as Ehrich Weiss, son of scholarly Rabbi Mayer Weiss, was not for him. So he studied the memoirs of French Magician Robert Houdin, changed his own name to Houdini, learned a little clumsy sleight of hand, and started to play the dime museums and carnivals that flourished in the late 19th century. He was a flop, and he had to break out of that situation, too. He concentrated...
Upside-Down Paintings. Vienna-born Ned Ohrbach, an immigrant's son, started as a clerk, worked up to buyer for Ehrich Bros, department store. He founded Ohrbach's in 1923, a block from Manhattan's famed, price-cutting S. Klein...
ROBERT W. EHRICH...
Harry Houdini (Ehrich Weiss), escape artist extraordinary and implacable foe of spiritualistic fakers, promised his wife that if it were possible for him after death to communicate with her on Earth, he would do so. A code message was agreed on. In New York, a medium named Arthur Ford said that Houdini's spirit had sent him these words: ROSABELLE ANSWER TELL PRAY ANSWER LOOK TELL ANSWER ANSWER TELL. Mrs. Houdini signed a statement that this was in her husband's code, but later seemed un convinced that she had actually heard from the dead magician. Last month...