Word: thurstons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bill Thurston and Roger Wilson have yet to develop into certain point winners, though they are strong contenders for first-team posts. "Wild Bill" is a good, though rather inconsistent, downhill and slalom racer. Wilson is best in the slalom, but can run a fairly sharp cross country race too. Jack Crawford shows latent cross country possibilities, and since he spends a good deal of time practicing, he may place high in coming meets...
...Chairman of the Cabin committee, Jock Crawford '42 has 15 votes and his nearest competitor, Bill Thurston, has three. Roger Wilson '43, Dave Goldthwait '43, and Paul Sheeline '43 are close for the position of secretary with six, five, and four votes respectively. For Treasurer, Paul Sheeline leads Roger Wilson and Dave Goldthwait with five votes to their four. The final results will be announced at the open meeting next Wednesday...
Dante himself is a bearded, white bearded trickster, who revealed that his greatest pleasure lies in hoodwinking audiences; in fact , hoodwinking has become his hobby, even in private life. Dante's real name is Harry Jansen, under which name he once worked with Thurston, to whom he considers himself the logical successor as the leading light of American magic...
Heading the group making the statement was Dean Landis. Others included Warren A. Seavey '01. Bussey Professor of Law, Barton W. Leach, professor of Law, Livingston Hall, professor of Law, Eldon R. James professor of Law. Edward Thurston '98, professor of Law, James A. McLaughlin, professor of Law. A. James Casner, Visiting Lecturer in Law, Philip W. Thayer '14, research assistant in Comparative Law, F. Merrick Dodd '80, professor of Law, and George K. Gardner '12, professor...
...started out as a magician in St. Paul, Minn., after watching The Great Herrmann do his stuff at the opera house there. Besides operating a show of his own, Jansen at one time ran a magic shop in Chicago. Eventually Jansen helped Thurston produce his shows. Shortly thereafter, Thurston and Jansen formed a corporation named Dante the Magician Inc. Three years later Thurston made Dante a present of the name. By 1930 Dante had bought out the magical assets and good will of their firm. Biggest illusion created by Jansen when he was associated with Thurston was The Vanishing Horse...