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...mysterious old men who begged to be let in). The boy was further in spired by Herrman's Wizards Manual, Secrets of Magic, Black Art, Mind Reading and Ventriloquism (including a chap ter on "how to cut a man's head off and put it into a platter a yard from his body"). Charlie McCarthy was just what Bergen needed. The little dummy was such a social success (unlike Bergen alone) that he lured Bergen from his university premedical studies into vaudeville. For ten years, through the decline of vaudeville, into the nightclubs of the middle...
Today, in all of Manhattan's worthy nightclubs and hotel ballrooms, this universal more is maintained. Checks are always presented, on a platter, with the mathematical notations hidden from the naked eye until the patron who is to pay for the fun decides to turn it over, a prerogative that is invariably exercised...
...friend, Sinclair Weeks, was handpicked by the Governor to warm Lodge's place until the election in November.) At 51, Leverett Saltonstall's political eyes are not bigger than his stomach. But as a shrewd Yankee, he never discounts the possibility that a platter might be handed...
...trick uses the standard platter-like German Teller mine. The thick disc, with almost 12 lb. of TNT, is buried extra deep in roads which rut quickly. The first few trucks roll over without disturbing the round, flat trigger called "the spider." When the rut deepens, usually after the road is considered safe, the next truck sets off the mine...
...coat long and wide and leaf-green he opened like doors to see his high-up tawny pants and his pants he smoothed downward from the points of his collar, and he wore a luminous baby-pink satin shirt. At the end, he reached gently above his wide platter-shaped round hat, the color of a plum, and one finger touched at the feather, emerald green, blowing in the spring winds...