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...scientists are the easiest to fool. They seek rational explanations for contrived phenomena, connections where none exist. Magicians were in fact doing what they had always persuaded their audiences to do: they were looking the wrong way. "We magicians are notorious for staring in the rear-view mirror," says Semipro Charles Reynolds, picture editor of Popular Photography. "As I figure it, all the evidence indicates that one day people will look back at this period and call it a magicians' renaissance." Reynolds is putting his money where his math is. This fall he will open a theater-restaurant...
Died. Delbert Eugene Webb, 75, Phoenix-based real-estate baron; of lung cancer; in Rochester, Minn. Webb was a promising semipro baseball pitcher before illness made him give up the game at 27. In 1929 he started his own construction company with one cement mixer and a few dozen wheelbarrows and tools, ultimately parlayed it into the Del E. Webb Corp., a $100 million empire of hotels, offices, planned retirement communities and other developments. With the late Dan Topping, Webb owned the New York Yankees during their postwar years of glory...
Martinez Jackson, whose mother was Spanish, had played two years of semipro baseball, and he encouraged his son to take up the game. Reggie began by hitting a softball in the backyard when he was seven. By the time he reached high school, he was a star, pitching three no-hitters and batting .550 his senior year. "I told Reggie," says the senior Jackson, who is still a tailor in Philadelphia, "that if he didn't make the team, he'd have to work in my shop...
...immigrant Italian barber, Sirica entered Georgetown Law School straight from high school and financed his schooling by working as an athletics instructor for the Knights of Columbus and as an occasional exhibition boxer. As a semipro pugilist, he became a friend of Jack Dempsey's and accompanied the Manassa Mauler on bond drives across the U.S. during World...
...Free Cinema." Their self-assigned mission was to break away from the brittle, upper-middle-class-oriented British film tradition and make gritty, naturalistic movies about the life of the English majority-the working class. Anderson succeeded superbly with his 1963 adaptation of David Storey's novel about semipro rugby players, This Sporting Life. He then turned to "strong humanist statements," notably If . . . Set in Anderson's old school, Cheltenham College, If . . . ends with the students revolting against the stifling hypocrisies of the institution by mowing down faculty and trustees with machine guns and grenades...