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...droll characterization of Lucifer, a sort of feline Charles Laughton. By remembering that his tale takes place "once upon a time in a faraway land," Disney avoids the temptation of gagging it up with anachronisms or excessive cartoon acrobatics. With just the right wizard's brew of fancy and fun, sugar and spice, he makes an old, old story seem as innocently fresh as it must to the youngest moppet hearing it for the first time...
...nose and a little round belly that shook when he laughed like a bowl full of jelly." While originally applied to one S. Claus, these lines also serve well to describe another revered wintertime wizard, one P. Limmer of Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts--Peter Limmer, Meister Schumacher...
Died. Dr. Samuel Green, 59, scrawny, nervous, Himmler-mustached Imperial Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan;* of a heart ailment; in Atlanta. A small-time obstetrician who looked more like a frustrated shoe clerk than the ruler of an Invisible Empire, Green climbed the Klan ladder in comparative obscurity until he got the job of Grand Dragon. Postwar, he shuffled off Klan debts, whipped up membership, emerged as undisputed führer of racial and religious bigotry in the South...
...Wizard. Appling has been celebrating his 40th birthday for several years now. The evidence indicates that he was born in High Point, N.C., some 42 or 43 years ago, moved with his family to Atlanta, played shortstop at Fulton High and at Oglethorpe University (where he also played football). He left Oglethorpe after two years to play baseball with the Atlanta Crackers, and the White Sox snapped him up during his first season...
...league twice in batting, and his 1936 average, .388, is the best figure for any big-time shortstop in modern baseball history. Appling makes more errors than a star infielder should, but he has led American League shortstops seven times in number of assists, and he is a wizard with bad-hopping grounders. He has made a crack double-play man out of the Sox's young second baseman, Cass Michaels, with whom Appling rooms on the road...