Word: magical
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Emil Jannings) and a nightclub singer, Lola Lola (Marlene Dietrich). Rath gives up his teaching career to marry Lola Lola; he travels with her troupe and lives off her earnings. Within a few years, Rath loses his dignity, and, finally, when he is forced to play stooge for a magic act, he loses his mind...
...memory-snapshots to be pasted in an album-it would perform a service; but in the right hands, the camera goes infinitely beyond the mere literal record. "There is," says Edward Steichen, dean of U.S. photographers, "the photography which seeks to translate into pattern and design the magic of a detail of growth and deterioration. Photography records the gamut of feelings written on the human face, the beauty of the earth and skies that man has inherited, and the wealth and confusion man has created." In a word, photography has become, as only good art can, "a major force...
Died. Alexander F. Victor, 82, Swedish-born magician who abandoned his stage career as "The Great Alexander" for another kind of magic, inventing the electric washing machine, the 16-mm. sound movie projector, and some 300 other devices; of cirrhosis; in Monterey, Calif...
...always had the votes to beat this one." said the Republican House minority leader. "And I think we still do.'' No matter how often the House Democrats counted the noses, no matter how hard they pleaded, cajoled and threatened, they could not come up with the magic number needed to pass President Kennedy's must bill to boost the $1 minimum wage to $1.25 and broaden coverage. History was against them. The House had killed the same bill last summer, and since then the Republicans had gained 21 seats...
...broad-shouldered six-footer, flashing smiles with neon-sign regularity and radiating a homeyness rarely found in homes. When the flow of words is finally finished, he looks straight into the listener's eyes and ends with a benison: "God bless you.'1 The man with the magic voice and manner is neither preacher, politician nor gunslinger-though he needs to be a good deal of each in his business. He is James Martin Moran. 42. the ebullient, aggressive and imaginative owner and president of Chicago's Courtesy Motor Sales Inc. To Chicagoans he is known simply...