From the Archive
HE FOOLED HOUDINI
No. 12

They called Dai Vernon the man who fooled Houdini. He fooled him seven times in a row, with the same card.

Poncie Ponce played the ukulele cab driver on Hawaiian Eye. The opening credits showed him floating in the ocean on an inner tube. That was Network television in 1961.

THE QUIET MON
No. 41

The Quiet Mon was an Irish pub above a Caribbean street. Kenny Chesney name-checked it in a song. After that, the balcony was always full.