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...TRUNK, son," the Queen said. "You're going to Harvard." In Cambridge the Prince met a wizard in corduroy who fed him spices full of visions. Banquets, English carriages, French cigarettes. He was really living...

Author: By Jeffrey D. Blum, | Title: The Prince | 5/21/1969 | See Source »

Died. Ernest Nixon, 85, President Nixon's uncle, a professor of plant pathology at Pennsylvania State University from 1917 to 1940, who, for his successful efforts in encouraging farmers to grow potatoes in the hard Pennsylvania soil, was known variously as "the Potato Wizard of Pennsylvania," the "Knute Rockne of Spudland" and the "Billy Sunday of Potatodom"; of cancer; in Bellefonte...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Mar. 14, 1969 | 3/14/1969 | See Source »

...WIZARD OF OZ (NBC, 7-9 p.m.). Time for everyone to step out once more on the yellow brick road to an enchanting evening in Oz with Judy Garland, Frank Morgan, Ray Bolger, Bert Lahr and Jack Haley. They may not make movies like they did in 1939, but at least they repeat them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Mar. 7, 1969 | 3/7/1969 | See Source »

...request that they did not make was for higher fees. The Magician of Tobruk conjures up for himself a reputed income of $1,500 a day. His establishment includes an eight-room apartment, five reception rooms, and two secretaries. Substantial success is common among Italy's wizards, who offer their clients counsel, clairvoyance and, at higher fees, "the art of magnetic fluids," said by 18th century German Physician Friedrich Mesmer to circulate in the universe, available for good or evil. Nearly every village has its specialist in the occult, and the Magician of Mon-tefredane, a small town near...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: License to Spell | 2/21/1969 | See Source »

...create portions of his life at will. Nazi soldiers emerge from the forest; Greek villagers dead for over 20 years reappear; Urfe's girl (Anna Karina), a suicide, comes to life. Angry and bewildered, Urfe cannot penetrate his host's series of masques. Is Conchis a wizard who can make people materialize from his mind? Is he only a psychiatrist, trying to bring Lily back to sanity by enacting her fantasies in life? Is he a master of metatheater, in which everyone must play a part? Or is he God? Although Urfe comes to fear for his mind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Movies: Orpheus Now | 12/20/1968 | See Source »

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