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...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...
...Wizard of Oz. In the House of Commons, Oliver Lyttelton's oblique comment on all this unpleasantness was: "The situation in Kenya has, to some extent, changed for the worse." With Lyttelton's approval, Sir Evelyn Baring, governor of Kenya, last week assumed emergency powers to punish whole villages (by confiscating of crops and livestock) for crimes committed in their vicinity. Jomo Kenyatta, exiled boss of the Kenya African Union (KAU), was hauled before a British district commissioner formally charged with "managing the Mau Mau." Many white settlers proposed still tougher measures. There was talk of evicting...
Onetime Reichsbank President Hjalmar Schacht, Hitler's wily old financial wizard, got a foothold in Germany again. Turned down by the Hamburg Senate when he applied for permission to found a banking firm there (TIME, Aug. 4). Schacht managed to get a license to operate in the province of Schleswig-Holstein, appeared confident that sooner or later he would win his Hamburg permit...
...game: at 13 he made a consecutive run of 2,000. At 18 he won his first world championship at the more difficult game of 18.1 balkline.* Since then he has consistently held the world's best players at bay. Age has not noticeably withered Willie's wizard touch with a cue. Now a silver-haired 65, he holds his twelfth world three-cushion bilHard title (TIME, March 17). Along Willie's ivory-clicking way, he won 39 other world championships, and set exhibition records that may never be equaled (e.g., an 18.1 balkline...
...they were possessed by devils. And since the chiefest of these was a demon of desire for the parish priest-a dashing esthete adored by the women of the town and detested by their husbands-it was indisputably evident to the man's enemies that he was a wizard, and that something had to be done about...