Word: magically
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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During the Boston incident, a hotel flunky, a priest, various policemen and a pretty girl from the crowd had taken turns in a desperate attempt to dissuade the would-be suicide from jumping. Last week in Louisville, a duplicate cast arrived, as if by magic, to plead with the ledge-walker on the Kentucky Hotel. A hotel clerk named Melvin Tobias leaned out a 19th-floor window, began trying to talk the youth down. A police lieutenant named R. C. Walling quickly arrived on the scene. The clerk and the cop were soon joined by a priest, Father William...
...vociferous claque of rooters burst into an excited hubbub when Rocky Marciano came bouncing into the ring. But the real roar of the crowd in Madison Square Garden came for the man with the magic name: Joe Louis. Only those right at the ringside could see that Louis at 37, balding and thick-waisted, was little more than a bloated, moonfaced caricature of the famed Brown Bomber. The gamblers, out of respectful memory, made Joe a 7-5 favorite-but it was the shortest price ever quoted on the ex-champion...
Rarely does a fairy-tale become real. Under the magic wand and lucid metaphor of Truman Capote, however, this odd tale about three old women--all over 60--and a boy who choose to live in a tree-house leaps into true life. Capote's success as a writer (really a poet at times) lies in his gradual revelation of the human soul through humorous colloquial expression and the simple language of the heart. The "Grass Harp", for instance, is a field of tall Indian grass which "sighs" the wisdom of people buried in a cemetery near by. Avoiding...
...Magic Face (Columbia) will come as news to Allied veterans who still think they liberated Europe in World War II by defeating the Germans. The real cause of Germany's defeat, it now appears, is that Hitler wasn't Hitler any more; he was really Janus the Great (Luther Adler), a professional impersonator bent on destroying the Reich by making all the wrong military decisions...
Adler's skulduggery and Germany's setbacks look like cause & effect. Since he also plays the real Hitler, Actor Adler* makes the impersonations look plausible; he shows his versatility in brief imitations of Mussolini, Haile Selassie and Chamberlain. But The Magic Face, full of logical kinks and lurid banalities, hangs together no better as fiction than fact...