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...additional cast of characters is more mysterious: the Total, for instance--"an agent of the devil, sent is punish evil-doers for having done less evil that they should." The Golux is cast in the old mold--his father was a wizard who "often cast his spells upon himself, when he was in his cups...
Dickenson and Bailey have been around for a long time. Trombonist Vic has developed his taste and feeling over more than a quarter-century of playing with the best in the field, and Buster has been a clarinet wizard to generations of greats and near-greats. Bailey is a grandfather now, but he can still blow a chorus that sounds as if it were some- where between Goodman and Ed Hall--with the smoothness of neither, but the imagination of both...
...budding newshound, editorial sage, camera man, or financial wizard? Looking for something interesting and different...
...Wizard with Roses. Like many another top Marine officer, Smith joined the Corps after a civilian education (with military trimmings). Sprig of a family that settled in Virginia in 1740, he was born (1893) in Menard, Texas. His father, a lawer, died when Oliver was six. His mother, a woman of fortitude and strong Christian Science principles, took the boy and two other children to the sleepy little town of Santa Cruz, in California, raised the youngsters in her church, of which Marine Smith is still a quietly devout member...
Aging (73) Hjalmar Horace Greeley Schacht, financial wizard of Adolf Hitler's Third Reich, kept his perfect batting average when he was acquitted last week at Lüneburg's denazification court for the fourth (and probably last) time...