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THE NEW YORK TIMES August 18, 1983 Page , Column
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TRICK ON CEMETERY THIEVES
Although somebody made the bust of Houdini disappear from a Queens cemetery last weekend, it was only a plastic reproduction, his biographer said yesterday. The Society of American Magicians has a spare.
The marblelike copy was on the magicians grave in Machpelah Cemetery, one of several old Jewish burial grounds in the Ridgewood Glendale area near the Interborough Parkway. It had replaced a real marble bust installed in 1927a year after the death of the escape artistand smashed by vandals in 1976.
The bronze original is in the Museum of the City of New York.
The magician societys supply of plastic Houdini busts isnt inexhaustible, according to Milbourne Christopher, Houdinis biographer.
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