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...cheat yourself at craps-use the correct odds. This is the advice of John Scarne, professional magician and gambling authority for Yank magazine, who worked out the mathematics of the armed forces' No. 1 sport. By last week he had sent copies of the odds (printed on cards small enough to paste into helmets) to more than 2,000,000 servicemen. Scarne's table...
Following a buffet supper to which all members, wives, and guests are invited, Stephen Simpson, well-known professional magician, will stage a show at 7:30 o'clock Sunday evening. This will be the second week-end in succession that a touch of the stage has come to Harvard's only officers' club for undergraduates briefly revived HPC's theatrical traditions for the benefit of guests and journalists last Saturday...
...about it and it was copiously copied before he could make his patents stick), than for producing the world's first manufactured goods with interchangeable parts. When he assembled the scrambled parts of ten muskets before U.S. War Department brass hats, they were as startled as if a magician had conjured them up. Besides contributing to mass production, Whitney's revolutionary discovery also helped the U.S. kill the beginnings of the slavish apprentice system...
...Rabbits. In Leonia, N.J., John A. Earl, candidate for a state senatorship, guarded against hocus-pocus at the drawing for positions on the primary ballot by taking along a magician as a watcher...
...amateur magician, Professor Chaffee, directs the "Slide Rule Symphony" made up of his colleagues and officers from the Radar School. First debut of the orchestra was at a party last April at which the feature presentation was "Deep in the Heart of Texas" a la Chaffee. Chaffee himself plays the cornet and cello...