tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4732721553418878547.post6192507093960665886..comments2024-03-27T08:03:12.221-07:00Comments on WILD ABOUT HARRY: Remembering Harry Houdini HinsonJohn Coxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04391313393222271260noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4732721553418878547.post-5818214673285348502019-03-07T04:33:35.622-08:002019-03-07T04:33:35.622-08:00To myself, this most cruel eventuality of a long-a...To myself, this most cruel eventuality of a long-ago past seems inexpressibly sad. He had his whole life before him and The Fates deigned that there would of it be no more, past his twenty years already attained. Yes. His cruel end must have shattered Bess utterly.<br /><br />Who knows what this Houdini might have become, if those cruel sisters had not intervened so finally, so suddenly.<br /><brJameshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17802167012893394180noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4732721553418878547.post-91326316405673342522019-02-15T16:57:44.041-08:002019-02-15T16:57:44.041-08:00Oh, wow, this I've never heard before.Oh, wow, this I've never heard before.John Coxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04391313393222271260noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4732721553418878547.post-6324418098532324822019-02-15T14:32:35.503-08:002019-02-15T14:32:35.503-08:00RIP uncle Harry RIP uncle Harry John Hinson great nephew of bess and harry Houdininoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4732721553418878547.post-55132297116255900412019-02-15T12:55:50.020-08:002019-02-15T12:55:50.020-08:00Very nice.Very nice.Mr. Mrs. Connollyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03866141720480922481noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4732721553418878547.post-61539438284216429862019-02-15T12:34:07.023-08:002019-02-15T12:34:07.023-08:00That is, in a 1943 article. The article was after...That is, in a 1943 article. The article was after her death, so she obviously said this some time earlier.Bill Mullinsnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4732721553418878547.post-66727978700392399652019-02-15T12:32:16.200-08:002019-02-15T12:32:16.200-08:00In 1943, Bess claimed that hearing this news gave ...In 1943, Bess claimed that hearing this news gave her a heart attack. She was in a seance at the moment he died, and since nothing in the seance alerted her to his death, this confirmed for her that seances were bunk. <br />https://www.newspapers.com/image/458884159/Bill Mullinsnoreply@blogger.com