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Harry Houdini, who died in 1927, was the entertainment phenomenon of the ragtime era. He could escape from chains and padlocks, from ropes and canvas sacks. They put him in a strait-jacket and hung him upside down from a skyscraper and he somehow untied himself. They tied him up in a locked packing case and sank him…

• In the first paragraph, what does the writer say Houdini managed to do?
• The writer mentions Houdini's burial alive to illustrate the fact that