Houdini's Death
40 Years Ago Is
Remembered Here
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Friday, November 11, 1966-13
DAN NY
Aid for Belgian Causes
By BENNETT CERF
but it might as we'l be." — Kin
The Conference on Jewish Ma-
RASKIN
The kids at a school in West Hubbard.
terial Claims Against Germany last
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Palm Beach have a sense of humor.
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year allocated a total of $570,000
The 40th anniversary of Harry
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Old "he-she" jokes used to dom- for educational, medical, relief and
Houdini's death was marked Sun- A new teacher, determined to im-
press the boys with the fact that
day, and a host of memories recur- he meant business, wound up his inate the humor magazines and other projects in Belgium.
red here of "The Man No Jail first session by reminding them, undergraduate publications, but
Could Hold." Houdini died in Grace "It's going to take more than just they're rarely considered sophis-
ticated enough for present-day
Hospital here.
the proverbial apple a day to get readers.
The fifth son of a Hungarian by in THIS class." So the next
Here are a few hardy relics:
rabbi, Erich Weiss had many a morning they brought him a water-
1. He: Do you enjoy Kipling?
Largest Supplier of Books to the
melon.
She: I don't know. I've never
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Jewish Book Fair
Kippled.
A very wealthy, very clever
2. He: Have you a hobby?
Is pleased to offer you the new book by the
theatrical impresario — so mean
She: No. Ay bane single.
world renowned, foremost living Hebrew Novelist
and untrustworthy, however, that
3. He: I'll stick to you like glue.
he didn't have a true friend in the
She: The feeling's mucilage.
4. He: I'm glad I'm not a French-
world — was rewriting his will for
man.
the fifth time in a year. This time
he inserted a clause leaving $10,000
Winner of the Nobel Prize
She: Why?
outright to every servant who had
He: I can't speak French.
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been in his employ for five years
at the day of his demise.
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In the Dexter Davison Shopping Plaza
©1966, by Bennett Cefr, Distributed
break in Detroit on his way up to man paid him for his labors, he
by King Features Syndicate
becoming the renowned escape figured out that it came to three
thousand dollars in all: "Two hun-
artist, Houdini.
dred bucks in cash — and the re-
Mark Beltaire, in his column
Houdini's famous escape trick off mainder in legal advice" (None of
which he took.)
in the Free Press, mentions
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the Belle Isle Bridge Nov. 27,
RIDDLE-DE-DEE
1906.
Q. What do the following places
He was handcuffed, tied with
ropes, then locked in a trunk and have in common: Amsterdam, An-
lowered into the water. Houdini twerp, Athens, Belfast, Bombay,
Cairo, Hamburg, Lisbon, Liverpool,
managed to work out of his bonds
Madrid,
Paris, Rome, Rotterdam
—as he always did.
and Warsaw?
An early break was a booking at
A. They're all in New York
Moore and Wiggins' Wonderland,
a dime emporium on Woodward, State !
Q. To which Indian tribes would
Beltaire writes. In one of Houdini's
books, "Miracle-Mongers and Their the following be likely to pledge
Methods," Houdini spoke of the allegiance: 1. Lawyer. 2. Carpet
Wonderland as a "gold mine" of Weaver. 3. Wild gambler. 4. Lock-
experience for young performers. smith?
He published many of his methods A. 1. Sioux. 2. Mohawk. 3. Pawnee.
in books and magazines and left 4. Cherokees.
his equipment to his brother, Har-
Q. Where does a 100-pound
deen, also a performer.
gorilla sleep?
A collector of historical papers,
A. Any place it darn pleases.
Houdini spent a fortune on his
collection. He could afford it, earn-
Another psychiatrist gag? This
ing $1,200 a week in the major
one has the usual frustrated wife
vaudeville houses of the world.
Houdini died from a ruptured with the poor husband, for a
appendix, the result - of a playful change, convinced that he's a lawn
punch by a medical student testing mower. "Let him be," advised the
Houdini's claim that he could steel psychiatrist. "I've never come
across a more harmless fantasy."
himself to any blow.
"It's fine for my husband," agreed
the wife, "but me, I'm getting sick
Return to Zion
of lending him to my neighbor."
Psalm 126
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Though he goeth on his way
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measure of seed,
He shall come home with joy
bearing his sheaves.
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Galbraith on Warburg
and Warburg on the U.S.
James P. Warburg's "The United
States in the Postwar World" will
be published this month. John Ken-
neth Galbraith has written Athene-
um, the publisher:
"On foreign policy, James War-
burg is a discouraging figure. He
is lucid, well-informed and very
.interesting. But he is not in favor
of war, even with De G a u 11 e;
doesn't call automatically for
strengthening NATO; has a com-
passionate view of the problems of
poor countries even when Commu-
nist; is not pompous; avoids cliches;
often make an allowance for doubt .
and does not accept the transcend-
ent wisdom of John Foster Dulles.
Why does he insist on taking these
far-out positions? He won't get
ahead."
In the country of the blind the
one-eyed man is king. — Erasmus.
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"History is the story of the
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"A man dies as often as he
loses his friends." — Billy Graham.
"It's no disgrace to be poor —
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Dodgers, 6-0.
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