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Once the Kettle. This sort of thing may strike the average man as harmless pother, but not Author Rinn. At 82, he is a onetime Manhattan produce broker and skilled amateur magician who has spent most of a lifetime trying to expose fake mediums as "the vilest gang of crooks that ever lived." No magician at writing a book, Rinn has nonetheless succeeded in presenting a bulky and formidable blast against spiritualism in all its forms...
Draper, 56, amateur magician and Wall Street investment banker, doesn't know how to run a railroad, but he does know how to run a business (he is vice president of Dillon, Read & Co., was General Clay's economic expert in Germany...
Married. Harry Blackstone (real name: Harry Boughton), 65, famed magician of vaudeville's old rabbit-out-of-the-hat, woman-sawing school; and Elizabeth Ross, 49, a wealthy widow he met in Biloxi, Miss, while both were taking an asthma cure; he for the third time, she for the second; in Chicago...
...Chicago last week a professional magician named Milbourne Christopher demonstrated a new trick which won him the award of magician's magician of the year. Before 1,000 of his colleagues assembled for their yearly convention, he held up two issues of TIME, one with Actress Carol Channing on the cover, the other with President Truman. He asked a young lady from the audience to choose one of the magazines. She chose the Truman issue, and he folded it with the cover portrait inside and told her to hold it. Holding up the Channing issue...
...Tickets, Please!" is the first consistently entertaining revue on the boards in some time. When the Hartmans and their cohorts do a take-off on the Roller Derby, burlesque Les Ballets de Paris, or parody a bumbling magician and his act, the antics are something you're bound to enjoy...