Word: houdini
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Like a Retired Houdini. For more than two years, O'Dwyer, popular as ever with the Mexicans, airily refused to pay any attention. Harry Truman as airily refused to fire him. But last week, with the Eisenhower Administration on its way in, Bill O'Dwyer gravely notified the President that having "done everything in my power to serve my country well" he was withdrawing from the diplomatic service. The President, in a letter of praise, "reluctantly" accepted his resignation...
Like his friend and fellow fake-hunter, Magician Harry Houdini, Rinn spent a long time looking for evidence of psychic power he could believe in. As a youngster, he was bowled over when a medium ordered him to place the spout of a kettle to his ear and thus receive the words of a "spirit voice." Only after he himself became a magician did Rinn realize that he had been duped (out of $5) by a double-bottomed kettle equipped like a telephone receiver and in contact with a "spirit" hidden behind a panel...