Word: magically
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...best dancing partner turns out to be a clothes tree. Picking it up as a rehearsal prop, he uses it to create a little masterpiece of grace, timing and inventiveness. He scores again in two other numbers that take imaginative advantage of the screen's technical magic. In one, he hoofs all over a room's ceiling and walls; in the other, he and Partner Powell work the lurching of an ocean liner into their shipboard act. Their best number together, matching the show-stopping caliber of Astaire's clothes-tree dance, is a rowdy comic song...
...asked a clerk: "Let's see one of those waterproof tweed topcoats of yours. You know-like the King wears." Thus another sale was made by the sign of the Royal Warrant over the door: a red, gold, silver and blue Royal Coat of Arms, with the magic advertising legend, 'By Appointment Makers of Weatherproof Clothing to H.M. the King...
...Conant has discovered. Especially in his work with government research projects, Conant has noticed that laymen who have to make decisions about scientific projects are ill-equipped to evaluate expert opinion or, worse, have no conception about what science can or cannot do. Frequently the layman confuses science with magic and will swallow exaggerated claims for a new process submitted either by scientific charlatans or dangerously over-enthusiastic investigators. Some familiarity with the manner in which scientists think will help the layman to make wise decisions about scientific work, Conant feels. "Science and Common Sense" is designed to provide this...
STEEL, William (Bill), loving father of Lena Thyme Cumming of Magic Circle Institute, Whitehall. Interment Feb. 15. Enquiries: Enterprise...
...Denver Art Museum staged a show last week that had more to do with anthropology than with esthetics. Entitled "Myths and Magic," it was a hodgepodge of everything from ancient Egyptian good-luck pieces and African fetishes to Solomon Island tabu sticks, Javanese puppets and Navajo sand paintings. Such things were not made merely to look at. Most of them had great visual impact, but their power was at least doubled by an understanding of the superstitions and purposes back of them...