Word: handed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Travel-weary but pleased. Queen Elizabeth II last week came to the end of her six-week Canadian tour, at the historic British fortress of Halifax. Prime Minister John Diefenbaker and 18 Cabinet members were on hand to see her off in a whirl of meetings, state banquets and one final piece of business: the appointment of a new Governor General to succeed scholarly Vincent Massey, 72, who retires this fall after 7½ years of service...
...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 on the art of escape itself. Handcuffs, prison cells, the wet-sheet packs of insane asylums, coffins, giant milk cans...
...through the zinc floor of his cage; they were passed to him, mouth to mouth, when his wife kissed him in tearful "farewell" before the carette was hidden in the corner of the prison yard. Doctors who examined him later did not find the "gaffs." An old carny hand had taught Houdini the trick of retroperistal-sis-swallowing small objects, stopping them halfway down the esophagus and spitting them up at leisure...
...nine, eight are printed in Urdu, the other in English. Seven are strictly one-man shows in which the proprietor hustles ads and copy, cribs items from the old newspapers arriving by train, cuts by hand the pothook stencils of the Urdu script. Then he makes the rounds of Quetta's three print shops, pursuing the lowest print rate of the week. Advertisers are rare, since Quettan merchants prefer to do all their pitching over a hookah at the bazaar, so the publisher must seek revenue from other sources. From Baluchistan's maliks (tribal chieftains), the shrewd editor...
...completed in space"). He rarely repeats himself in a chorus, may go in one brief number-Autumn in New York or The Girl Next Door-through a kaleidoscopic range of moods, most of them merely suggested. by a rhythmic break, a lightly lyric flight in the right hand, a sudden shifting of dynamic gears. Ahmad can build his musical ideas with such subtlety that the listener often has the sensation of not knowing where he is being led until the final note is played...