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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Elected as Business Associates are the following: R. H. Bishop, 3rd '38, Western Reserve; J. H. Davis '39, Milton; F. Morse '39, Fountain Valley and Lincoln; T. M. de Saint Phalle '39, Pomfret; B. H. Slade '39, Pomfret; L. Wulsin, Jr. '39, St. Georges...
...over Hollywood Boulevard. On the hotel roof, ignoring a milling throng of spiritualists, magicians, newshawks, cameramen and gawpers, a plump, white-haired woman walked down a length of red plush carpet on the arm of a bearded man. Beatrice Wilhelmina Rahner Houdini and her business manager, Magician Edward Saint, seated themselves on thronelike chairs before a red-draped table. On the table lay a silver bell, a trumpet, a pair of handcuffs, a small shrine containing a photograph of the late Harry Houdini. This Halloween was the tenth anniversary of Harry Houdini's death in Detroit...
...dark hotel roof last week bearded Manager Saint appealed for quiet. The music of Pomp and Circumstance poured from a loudspeaker. By the light of a small red lamp, Manager Saint read his speech: ". . . the ten-year vigil of the silver-haired widow of Harry Houdini to night comes to its final and logical conclusion with this last attempt to pierce the Great Void. . . ." The magician explained that the spirit of Houdini might, if it could, ring the bell, unlock the handcuffs, speak a code message through the trumpet...
...Saint: The world is waiting, Harry, the entire world and your friends in the glamorous Hollywood you loved so much. All are waiting. Please speak, Harry. . . . Call to him, Madam Houdini, call...
...Education of Henry Adams" was published several years after the author's death and attained a tremendous popularity which it will doubtless hold so long as literature lasts. It has been issued in a number of different inexpensive formars. "Mont-Saint Michel and Chartres" by the nature of its subject is a more technical and a more difficult book to read. It is an experience in aesthetics and the philosophy of aesthetics that is unrivalled by anything in any tongue; the "Stones of Venice" is uninteresting beside it, and it excels the ordinary artistic appreciation as Chartres itself excels Memorial...