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...Magicians' Money. Nothing wounds Dunninger so much as this sort of skepticism. Because of it, his relations with his brother magicians are not good. "Ethics are tossed aside these days," he muses sadly. He feels that it is especially unethical of his rivals to charge that his mind-reading act is a trick. Occasionally he offers to bet $10,000 that no one can duplicate his "brainbusters." One of his detractors, Richard Himber, bandleader and amateur magician, has countered with an offer to bet $100,000 that Dunninger can't read his mind. Dunninger's reply...
Private Hill went over the hill. He put on one of the costumes he used as a female impersonator, lit out for London and a magician's job. Billed as "Donna Delbert, the Female Fire-Eater," Hill toured music halls up & down Britain for four years, until one evening in 1947, when he met pretty, 28-year-old Betty Ardoino in an Islington...
...Before he was inducted at Fort Riley, Kans., in 1942, Delbert Eugene Hill was a professional entertainer in the U.S., billed as "America's Only Lady Magician." The Army put him in Special Services Division, shipped him off to England to amuse the Air Force. He did so well that he was once chosen to take part in a command performance before Queen Mary. By V-E day, he had become manager of the Burtonwood Air Base theater. Out of the blue, he received a reclassification notice; his new job was cleaning latrines...
Into the tanbark of the Moscow Circus rolled a huge papier-maché head with bulbous nose, watery blue eyes and a patch of wispy hair made of brambles. This, explained Russia's famed Magician Kio, was the head of the U.S. To show his audience what went on inside the head, Kio unscrewed the top. In jumped a masked gunman in evening clothes (U.S. literature), a Western badman (Hollywood), two fat chorus girls (the U.S. theater) and three dwarfs (the Truman Doctrine, the Marshall Plan, a slanderer of the U.S.S.R...
...Only a magician could have performed the feat that Harry Truman blithely promised the voters in his election campaign last fall. The President told farmers he would keep up their sky-high farm prices and he pledged consumers a painless cost of living. The man Harry Truman picked to do the trick was no magician, and not even a farmer. He was a bald, inconspicuous Colorado lawyer, Secretary of Agriculture Charles F. Brannan. Last week Brannan went before the House and Senate Agriculture Committees and solemnly pulled a rabbit out of his hat. Even as rabbits...