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To watch Harry Houdini perform was to see a man rush headlong toward death - only to escape it at the last possible moment. He overcame our darkest nightmares: drowning, suffocation, being trapped. No lock could hold him. No entertainer could outdazzle him. He took his audiences to the brink of tragedy and left them breathless with fear ...
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