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• Another trick of his was to have several men from the audience come up on stage, first to examine him to make sure he had no tools hidden, and second, to examine whatever he was about to be locked up in: a safe or a coffin or a packing crate. He would then solemnly shake hands with all the men before being locked up. But the last man he would shake hands with was a shill who had been planted in the audience. During the handshake, a pick or a key would be passed from hand to hand.
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• Another stage method he used was to make sure his assistants on stage seemed as awkward and clumsy as possible— dropping things, stumbling, and making many minor mistakes. This averted suspicion from them while also managing to misdirect attention. • His wife Bess frequently participated in the show. For mind-reading tricks, Bess and Harry worked out a secret stage code where one could tip off the other using words that stood for numerals: pray = 1; answer = 2; say = 3; now = 4; tell = 5; please = 6; speak = 7; quickly = 8; look = 9 and be quick = 10. If Houdini needed to divine the number off a dollar bill that Bess was looking at, Bess would merely say, “Tell me, look into your heart. Say, can you answer me, pray? Quickly, quickly! Now! Speak to us! Speak quickly!” Houdini the mind reader would correctly reply: 59321884778. PUBLICITY MASTER • In Germany, Houdini wanted to stage a stunt by jumping, roped and chained, off a boat into the river. The police refused permission— but he did it anyway. As he pulled himself out of the river and walked up the riverbank, he was arrested. The only thing the cops could charge him with was walking on the grass. The story made the papers all over the country.
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• In 1899, the head of the Chicago police challenged Houdini to escape from his special handcuffs. Houdini agreed, then struggled for over an hour as the audience jeered. The cuffs had to be cut off— and only after the theater had emptied did the cop admit that he had tampered with the cuffs, dropping in a lead slug so that it would be jammed. When the trick was revealed, the local newspaper ran the story and Houdini raked in free publicity. See the next page for more!
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• Singer Sarah Bernhardt was honored at a reception. There, she was presented with a bronze bust of herself. However, no one had paid the bill for the bust. When the $350 bill was sent to her, she promptly returned the bust to the maker. Houdini stepped in and paid the bill. Within a few days his gesture had been covered in no less than 3,756 newspapers. A reporter estimated that if Houdini had bought that much newspaper space outright, it would have cost $56,340.
FAMOUS STUNTS • In 1906 Houdini was locked in the death row cell that once housed Charles Guiteau, who assassinated President Garfield. Not only did he escape from the cell, but he then unlocked all the other prisoners on death row, shuffled them around, and then locked them up again all in the wrong cells. The escapade took him 27 minutes. He then advised the police on how they could make their jail escape-proof. • Often Houdini would escape quickly from his entrapment, then sit quietly out of sight of the audience, calmly playing cards or reading the paper while waiting for the tension to grow: “Is he dead yet?” “He’s never going to get out alive!” Then, when the audience murmurings and the accompanying orchestral music had grown to a fever pitch, he would drench himself in water to make himself look sweaty before stepping triumphantly out in front of the curtain to accept raucous cheers.
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• Another pile of free publicity resulted when a magician named The Great Cirnoc interrupted one of Houdini’s performances with loud protests that he, the Great Cirnoc, was the true handcuff king. Houdini invited him on stage to prove himself by escaping from some special cuffs. The Great Cirnoc first insisted that Houdini demonstrate that it was possible to do (which he did, in the privacy of his cabinet, using a secret key). The Great Cirnoc then struggled to release himself from the same cuffs but found it impossible to do so. He was hooted off stage and the papers were full of the story the next day. • One of his most popular feats was the Great Disappearing Elephant act. During the war, a lady asked him why he didn’t revive the stunt. He answered that President Hoover had ruled that elephants, as well as other resources, needed to be conserved. “I made two disappear a day, that is twelve a week. Mr. Hoover said that I was exhausting the elephant supply of the world.”
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• On his first trip to Europe, Houdini hired seven bald men to sit in a row on the pavement next to a popular cafe. At regular intervals, the seven men would simultaneously remove their hats and nod their heads forward. Each man had one letter written on his bald head, and together they spelled “Houdini.”
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by Samantha Weaver • It was Pulitzer Prize-winning American journalist, author and historian Garry Wills who made the following sage observation: “Politicians make good company for a while just as children do -- their self-enjoyment is contagious. But they soon exhaust their favorite subject -- themselves.” • According to ancient Egyptian mythology, humans were created from the tears of the sun. • The Pizza Hut restaurant chain got started when two brothers borrowed $600 from their mom. • You might be surprised to learn that, just as there is a market for used cars, there is a market for used roller coasters. With the skyrocketing costs of construction, it can be cheaper to disassemble, move and reassemble a coaster than to build one from scratch. • In the early 1900s, if you called someone a “geek” it didn’t mean that person was nerdy. A geek back then was a carnival wild man. • Iconic songstress Madonna once worked as a coat-check girl at the Russian Tea Room. • If you weren’t a fan of math in elementary school, it might comfort you to know that students have been struggling longer than you probably realize. It was way back in 1900 B.C., in early Mesopotamia, that the first known multiplication tables were created. • If all the salt in the world’s oceans were removed and spread out, it would cover all the world’s land in a layer 40 feet deep. • Researchers using standard statistical methods have determined that it takes an average of 142 licks to get to the center of a Tootsie Pop. • Those who study such things say that half the residents of Spain have never read a book. *** Thought for the Day: “Nothing sways the stupid more than arguments they can’t understand.” -- Cardinal de Retz (c) 2015 King Features Synd., Inc.
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• On Oct. 28, 1886, the Statue of Liberty, a gift of friendship from the people of France, is dedicated in New York Harbor as the last copper rivet is fitted. The dismantled Statue of Liberty had arrived 16 months earlier in more than 200 packing cases. • On Oct. 29, 1925, Dominick Dunne, chronicler of high-profile crimes, is born. Dunne reported on the 1995 O.J. Simpson double-homicide trial and provided TV commentary about the case. He was stunned when the former football star was acquitted. • On Oct. 30, 1938, Orson Welles, age 23, causes a nationwide panic with his broadcast of “War of the Worlds” -- a realistic radio dramatization of a Martian invasion of Earth. “War of the Worlds” was not planned as a radio hoax, and Welles had little inkling of the havoc it would cause. • On Nov. 1, 1941, President Franklin Roosevelt announces that the U.S. Coast Guard will be under the direction of the U.S. Navy, a transition of authority usually reserved only for wartime. Five weeks later, Japan would attack the U.S. at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. • On Oct. 31, 1957, the Japanese car company Toyota establishes its U.S. headquarters in California to begin selling its inexpensive Toyopet Crown sedans. A sensation in Japan, it flopped in the U.S. The car was too small for many American drivers, guzzled gas and oil, and shook at freeway speeds. • On Oct. 26, 1984, in Loma Linda, California, Dr. Leonard Bailey performs the first baboon-to-human heart transplant, replacing 14-day-old Baby Fae’s defective heart. Baby Fae survived for 20 days, longer than any previous human recipient of an animal heart. • On Oct. 27, 1994, the U.S. Justice Department announces that the U.S. prison population has topped 1 million for the first time. The 1,012,851 men and women were in state and federal prisons, and did not include those incarcerated in local jails. (c) 2015 King Features Synd., Inc.
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Pixels (PG-13) -- Adam Sandler slouches his way through more haphazard hijinks in this bigbudget nostalgic action-comedy. Sandler plays a schlubby guy still trying to get over a videogame tournament he lost in his childhood. He’s also friends with the president, who is played by Kevin James (keep suspending that disbelief, cause the aliens haven’t even landed yet). Shrugging Sandler must team up with others (Peter Dinklage, Josh Gad and Michelle Monaghan) to defeat an invading force of aliens that have taken the form of ‘80s arcade game characters. It’s not just the noise and flashing lights that make arcade games so fun and memorable. A movie so deeply inspired by arcades might have gotten that lesson and written a script to prove it. Grownups may get tickles of nostalgia when a giant Q*bert appears on screen, but that can’t support a running time this long with jokes this
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3327 Memorial Hwy., Mandan, ND 701-663-0277 Not valid during Thunder Alley, Limit 1 person per day. Anytime lanes are available. Not valid with Groups/Reservations. Bowling shoes are required. Rental Shoes not included with this coupon.
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Laughs! Criss Angel and Houdini walk into a bakery. Criss palms three donuts and secretly puts them in his pocket. He says, “Do you see how masterful I am?” Houdini then goes to the bakery owner and asks him if he wants to see a magic trick. Houdini asks for a donut, and then eats it. He asks for another, and eats it. He then asks for a third one, and the owner says, “So where is the magic trick? I gave you three donuts already!” Houdini responds, “Go check Criss Angel’s pocket!”
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