Word: wizards
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...brilliant Oxford professor named Frederick Alexander Lindemann. One of Winston Churchill's closest buddies, who last spring used to give the Prime Minister relaxation by beating him at Monopoly and Lexicon, Dr. Lindemann has proposed many weird but useful theories of war. Fellow student of Einstein, such a wizard with figures that he can instantly square or cube root any large figure, he once worked out a mathematical formula for taking planes out of spins-which worked. He was thought to have something to do with the R. A. F.'s inflammable calling cards...
Consulting wizard of the Radio Theatre is Cecil Blount De Mille. Nominally producer of the show, De Mille nowadays does little more than serve as commentator, leaves actual work of whipping programs together to Director Sanford Howard Barnett. Only when particularly knotty problems occur does De Mille contribute a bit of sage advice. Once, when animal imitators were unable to render the baying of a beagle, De Mille dispatched six of them to Lake Arrowhead, there to study the call of four fine hounds. Best scholar was one Lee Millar, who progressed so fast that he was eventually permitted...
...adventure in which Seabrook, using black magic and a nail-studded doll, al most killed a French wizard who had cast a deadly spell over Mrs. Seabrook...
Border Boys. Far from the workaday radio world of Mexico City are the med ical and moral border blasters who shove their way into the U. S. firmament from roaring stations on the Mexican border: Dr. John Richard Brinkley, the goat-gland wizard and Astrologer Rose Dawn, a bouncy blonde plugger for everything from perfume to religious tomes, who use the 180,000 watts of station XERA at Villa Acufia; until recently Norman Baker who used 50,000-watt station XENT, near Nuevo Laredo until the U. S. Government convicted him for using the mails to de fraud...
...World War I, General Brooke invented a barrage map for directing artillery fire which came into wide use. He is called Britain's best-informed tank and anti-tank man, "Wizard" because his knowledge of gunnery is so well-rounded he is also an anti-aircraft ace. Spectacled, dark, pinched, with a close-clipped mustache, he looks more like a "City" broker than the soldier-sportsman that he is (in the Army since 1902). His fox-hunting Irish father was Master of the Pau pack (supposed descendants of hounds with which Wellington's officers hunted in Spain...