Word: houdini
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Calypsos (Wilmoth Houdini; Decca). Three-disc album of Trinidad's unique babu-pa-doop. Note Roosevelt Opens World's Fair...
Rube adjusted himself quickly to his new profession. His first cartoon showed Franklin Roosevelt holding a stopwatch over Industry struggling to escape from a straitjacket. Caption: EVEN HOUDINI COULDN'T DO THIS ONE. Nos. 2 and 3 were equally unfunny, but Rube promised his fans that the Sun would soon publish his design for an apparatus to collect War debts...
...Mentalist" Joseph Dunninger, who can be reached through Frances Rockefeller King of the NBC's Artists' Bureau at 30 Rockefeller Plaza, New York City, has under lock & key messages left with him not only by Edison, but by Conan Doyle and Harry Houdini, who said they would try to communicate them to the living after they died. Anyone who receives the message through spiritualistic communication which tallies with the one Edison left can win $10,000 from Mr. Dunninger and the Universal Council for Psychic Research, of which he is chairman...
...think Houdini could have done anything more phenomenal than the Van Sweringens did," scoffed Senator Wheeler. "They regained control of their vast empire without putting up a five-cent piece." Mr. Ball, unexpected inheritor of the Van Sweringen empire, had to confess time & again that he did not even know what kind of business many of the 286 Van Sweringen corporations were engaged in. He had put its management in the hands of Herbert Fitzpatrick, Van Sweringen attorney...
Further pleas were answered by a Great Silence. Mrs. Houdini then said clearly: "Houdini has not come. I do not believe he will ever come." She covered her face with her hands. The lights went up and photographers crowded forward. In the street a Halloween firecracker exploded...