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Without even donning any spooky Halloween costumes, the Harvard soccer team managed to put a tremendous scare into Brown before succumbing to the Bruins, 3-2 Saturday night in Providence...
...world's greatest escape artist, of course, was Harry Houdini. He died 51 years ago today--on Halloween in 1926. It was only fitting that the Mysteriarch, as he was known, chose All Hallows Eve to escape from this life: dying on this day was Houdini's last publicity stunt, and one of his best. Always exit with a flourish, as the show biz types...
...fact, one might almost expect Houdini's specter to pop up somewhere on Halloween, among the trick or treaters. For certainly, Houdini was not a man who could easily be forgotten. No jail cell could hold him, no locks or chains could confine him. Houdini released himself thousands of times from every known physical restraint, often purposely putting his life in danger to dramatize the escapes. He was certainly no slouch: why escapes from a strait jacket standing upright when you can do it hanging by your ankles from a flagpole, 100 feet above a New York street, with thousands...
...there was one important game this year," Restic said yesterday afternoon while contemplating spending Halloween Saturday in Providence, "last week...
...known to his cell members only by a code name, and he always passed instructions to them through a deputy. He got his own orders through "coordinators" who dealt with the central committee. When a cell-level operative meets his central committee bosses, spotlights and Halloween masks may be used to confuse identification. Recalls José: "I remember times where members I know would stand together at rallies or meetings and not know each other...