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Racing through the script are Jack Palance as Simon, a power-mad, eye-rolling (but strictly second-rate) magician who tries to discredit the growing body of Christians with rabble-rousing and tricks; Paul Newman as Basil, a pagan silversmith who designs a frame for the cup; Virginia Mayo, the sorcerer's apprentice, who divides her time between dressing up the boss's act and running up Basil's metabolism; and Pier Angeli, a wistful, loving Christian who finally wins Basil for herself...
...only the local witch doctor, up to his innocent tricks. His usual voo had lost its do, and in the emergency, he had invoked, by making a few passes with needle and thread, the familiar spirit of that infinitely greater magician who has cast his spell upon the entire world-Walt Disney. Indeed, not since the Age of Fable, not since Mage Merlin and Lob-Lie-by-the-Fire has such power of pixilation been granted as this son of North Chicago carries in his thumb. From the magic hand of Disney has come hippety-hoppeting, tippety-squeaketing, quackety-racketing...
...Christmas season got off to a superb start with NBC's color spectacular, Babes in Toyland. Comedian Jack E. Leonard finally hit his TV stride as a bumbling villain; there was Wally Cox, Dave Garroway, a brace of excellent clowns and a fine magician, and the TV children as well as Dennis Day were pleasantly inoffensive. With all their help, Victor Herbert's tuneful old musical was translated into one of Max Liebman's best TV shows...
...Ellis Memorial in Boston, Robert C. Miller '57 and Noel Tyl '58 will present a magic and story-telling show. Tyl has performed as a magician in numerous night clubs...
Chemistry is one of the sciences that became important before it knew what it was doing. The old, half-magician alchemists of the Middle Ages were acquainted with many useful compounds and reactions, but they had no rational theories about them. Early chemists, dropping the magic, gradually developed general principles to explain what happened in their test tubes. The most useful of these was the concept of "chemical bonds": the forces that make atoms stick together as the molecules that form nearly everything on earth. Though the chemists learned a lot about the bonding forces and took skillful advantage...