Word: wizard
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Iran did not wait to see who was knocking. He bounded from his bed and scooted out the back door, to the nearby compound of the U.S. Point Four program. There he caught his breath, then scurried to the Majlis building. The incongruous, pajama-clad frame of the wrinkled Wizard of Persia burst into the middle of the closed session. Mossadegh announced that he was claiming bast, the traditional privilege of political sanctuary...
...patients who daily crowd Achille d'Angelo's waiting room in Rome are the names of some of the privileged ones who come by special appointment. For a bad left knee, Arturo Toscanini took ten treatments last summer from D'Angelo, self-styled Mago di Napoli (Wizard of Naples), and pronounced the man formidabile. Tenor Beniamino Gigli went in to be lifted from his nervous depression. Italy's Queen Maria José once sought D'Angelo's aid for her "weakened optic nerves...
With Waving Arms. Most patients sit in D'Angelo's waiting room (the "Chamber of Hope," he calls it) for hours, exposed to the hypnotic influence of dramatically lit photographs of the pudgy, 45-year-old wizard. When he feels good & ready, D'Angelo bounds into the room and arbitrarily picks the patient he will treat first. The patient faces the wizard across a table, closes his eyes and stretches out his hands, palms down...
...Angelo stiffens and begins to wave his arms and hands like a Stokowski working over the climax of Death and Transfiguration, while the patient describes his sensations. This lasts from ten minutes to half an hour. Then the wizard slumps back in a sweat and pulls himself together to collect a fee of $16 (but only, he insists, from those who can afford it). With identical treatments, D'Angelo claims to be able to cure "all psychic or nervous disorders," such as paralysis, phobias, migraine, insomnia and loss of sight, hearing or speech. Since most such cases are hysterical...
...Angelo just laughed. In Rome, he had been careful to accept only patients who were accompanied or referred by a licensed physician. Among the many doctors who had sent the wizard cases was the papal physician, Galeazzi-Lisi. Chuckled D'Angelo: "If they do this to me, they'll have to file against all the doctors who sent me my patients...