Word: magicians
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Besides receiving warm mackinaws, heavy sweaters and leather jackets, the children, ranging from seven and a half to twelve, will enjoy Santa Claus, a magician, and a planist...
Gloria Vanderbilt, of the up-again-down-again hairdo, did a now-you-see-it-now-you-don't turn as a magician's volunteer helper in a Manhattan nightclub before she left for California...
...This is a business like anything else," declares Chief Coordinator Duhig. "Only it's run for the profit of the students rather than for us, Harvard, or anybody else. We have to keep our clientele happy, though. If they're not satisfied with a magician we send them, that gives the Bureau a bad mark. So we make sure they're good. That goes for any other man we get to fill a job, too, and we rarely have any complaints...
Other featured performers who pick up a frequent spot of extra cash include Chandu Shad, "Magician and shadow man," a Sophomore handwriting analyst, several musicians, and a twelve-piece jazz band. Thomas F. Bartlett '44, a traveller who has spanned over 100,000 miles as seaman and stevedore, is well-prepared to talk on "Sea Trail Blazing of War Zone Voyages," and many other equally able lecturers are on call for any kind of occasion...
...Arthur Conan Doyle believed in her; Harry Houdini offered $5,000 to charity if she produced any "manifestations" which he could not duplicate. Charity never got the money. Before Houdini died in 1926 he said he would communicate with the living after his death if he could, and Magician Joseph M. Dunninger awaited a "message" on every anniversary of his death. "Margery" died the day after the 15th anniversary...