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The Gen Volume 23 (1967)
by Harry Stanley & Lewis Ganson

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The Gen Volume 23 (1967) by Harry Stanley & Lewis Ganson
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On the covers are

  • Peter Oran
  • Larry Jennings
  • Milton Kort
  • Rev. Stephen Blood
  • Dai Vernon, Bruce Cervon, Steve Young
  • John Shearer
  • Rink
  • Jacques Dugour
  • Tom Johnston
  • Fugi Fuchs
  • Bob Batey (Navette)
  • Richard and Mary Suey
288 pages
  1. Volume 23, Number 1, May, 1967, 24 numbered pages - cover picture: Peter Oran - Magic from Holland Issue
  2. From The Gen Desk - comments from Lewis Ganson
  3. Money Magic
    • "Do It Yourself" Bank Notes - Peter Oran
  4. Coin Through the Table - Alvara
  5. Close Up Magic
    • The Mouse Paddle - Eddie Taytelbaum
  6. Mental and Spirit Magic
    • Blank Card Mystery - Corvelo
  7. New Lamps for Old - series by Rink of Holland
    • Ring, Ribbon and Stick
  8. Rope Magic
    • Ring Varia - Fred Kaps
  9. Silk Chain - Marconick
  10. Six Card Mental Trick - Frans Biemans
  11. Magic with Apparatus
    • The Super Dooper Sand-Frame Miracle - Aenigma
  12. Card Magic
    • Phoa's Perfect Palm - Phoa Yan Tiong

  1. Volume 23, Number 2, June, 1967, 24 numbered pages - cover picture: Larry Jennings
  2. From The Gen Desk - comments from Lewis Ganson
  3. Illusions
    • Sawing a Fakir in Half - Hans-Gerhard Stumpf (Germany)
  4. Silk Magic
    • Bewildering "20th Century" - Bill Shewan (Wales)
  5. Mainly Manipulative
    • Coin in Deck - Larry Jennings (USA)
  6. Close Up Magic
    • Ball-Chain Escape - Eddie Taytelbaum (Holland)
  7. Magic for Youngsters
    • Cinderella - Sam Nardone (Scotland)
  8. Magic with Apparatus
    • The Roll-Call - John Pickstone (Palma de Malorca [sic])
  9. Card Magic
    • Two Card Location Par Excellence - Everett Lyda (USA)
  10. Simplex Card in Wallet - Norman Edwards
  11. Review - comments from Harry Stanley
    • Art of Close Up
    • Dai Vernon's Ultimate Card Secrets
    • The World Congress of Magic
    • Werner Hornung
    • Around the Studio
    • Alan Alan
    • What's Big?

  1. Volume 23, Number 3, July, 1967, 24 numbered pages - cover picture: Milton Kort
  2. From The Gen Desk - comments from Lewis Ganson
  3. Rope Magic
    • The Sliding and Vanishing Knot - Eddie Taytelbaum (Holland)
  4. Vanishing Pen - Ian Lessels (Scotland)
  5. Magic with Apparatus
    • Drinka Pinta - Hans-Gerhard Stumpf (Germany)
  6. The Magic of Charles Smith - Roger Klause
    • Leipzig's "Grindstone"
    • Torn and Restored Napkin
    • Squeeze Play
  7. Close Up Magic
    • Homing Discs - Jim Hynd
  8. Card Magic
    • Black Sandwich, Red Sandwich - Milton Kort (USA)
  9. Double Rising Cards - Bill Severn (USA)
  10. Money Magic
    • Impossible - A Marked Coin Transposition - Horace E. Bennett (USA)

  1. Volume 23, Number 4, August, 1967, 24 numbered pages - cover picture: Rev. Stephen Blood
  2. From The Gen Desk - comments from Lewis Ganson
  3. Card Magic from America
  4. A Two Deck Effect - Karl Fulves (USA)
  5. Hobson's Choice - Charles Smith (USA)
  6. Behind the Newspaper - Bill Severn (USA)
  7. Aces Supreme! - Stan Lobenstern (USA)
  8. Marion's Miracle - Norman Gilbreath (USA)
  9. Magic with Apparatus
    • Watch the Birdie! - Bill Stahly
  10. Silk Magic
    • A Tip for Bewildering Silks - Wayne Rogers (New Zealand)
  11. Magic with Apparatus
    • Die Box Plus - Al Fern
  12. The Watcher - J. Hogan
  13. A Useful Number Force - W. R. Hammerton
  14. New Lamps for Old - series by Rink of Holland
    • Multiple Knots
  15. Mental and Spirit Magic
    • The Mark of the Beast - Tony Shiels
  16. F'reeze a Jolly Good Fellow - Rev. S. J. Blood

  1. Volume 23, Number 5, September, 1967, 24 numbered pages - cover picture: Bruce Gorvon, Steve Young & Dai Vernon
  2. From The Gen Desk - comments from Lewis Ganson
  3. Magic from Holland
  4. Money Magic
    • Coin Cap Routine - Freis Biemans
  5. New Lamps for Old - series by Rink of Holland
    • Cups and Coins
  6. Magic for the Pocket
    • Triple Spot Paddle - Eddie Taytelbaum
  7. Ball-Chain Climax - Bruigom
  8. Close Up Magic
    • Boxology - Frederica
  9. Silk Magic
    • Autumn Bombshell - or Leaf it Alone! - Rev. S. J. Blood
  10. Card Magic
    • Perfect Force Deck - Stan Lobenstern
  11. The Red Ones - Horace Bennett (USA)

  1. Volume 23, Number 6, October, 1967, 24 numbered pages - cover picture: John Shearer
  2. From The Gen Desk - comments from Lewis Ganson
  3. Two "Sellers" - Tom Sellers
    • Chosen Rope Restoration
    • The Upside Down Glasses
  4. Card Magic
    • Prelude to the Rising Cards - Avara
  5. The Mounties - J. Hogan
  6. New Lamps for Old - series by Rink of Holland
    • Thirty-One Card Trick
  7. Magic with Apparatus
    • Ropes--Ring and Coat - Everett Lyda (USA)
  8. The Victorians and 1967 - John Pickstone (Mallorca)
  9. Two Tips for Magicians - Bill Stahly
    • One for the Mentalist
    • One for the Prop Magician
  10. Money Magic
    • The "Juggler" Coin Trick - Horace E. Bennett
  11. The Total Is! - Gerald Kosky
  12. Cello-Pick - Magini
  13. Review - comments from Harry Stanley
    • Don't Worry
    • So Many Readers
    • Southport
    • For Many Years
    • "The Best Dressed Dealer's Stand"
    • Over 20 Years Ago
    • Birmingham
    • Scotland
    • Ultimate Secrets
    • I Nearly Forgot

  1. Volume 23, Number 7, November, 1967, 24 numbered pages - cover picture: Rink
  2. From The Gen Desk - comments from Lewis Ganson
  3. Three Ring Melody - Rink
  4. Card Magic
    • Inmates Out - Rev. Stephen Blood
  5. The Card in the Glass - Mike Lee
  6. Bottle Gravity - Magini
  7. Illusions
    • Magic or Illusion? - Charles Smith (USA)
  8. The Bond Plaque and Case - Tom Sellers and Dennis Patten
  9. Close Up Magic
    • My Favourite Paddle Trick - Everett Lyda
  10. Almost a Vanish - Horace E. Bennett
  11. Review - comments from Harry Stanley
    • Eton College
    • After Cocktails
    • First-Rate Hobby
    • Harry Clarke
    • Make No Mistake
    • A Lot of Junk Around
    • Modern Twists
    • Unique Publications
    • Lewis Ganson
    • Hugh Miller
    • "Murray's Life in Magic"

  1. Volume 23, Number 8, December, 1967, 24 numbered pages - cover picture: Jacques Dugour with Princess Grace of Monaco
  2. From The Gen Desk - comments from Lewis Ganson
  3. Bennett on Bertram (or There Go Those Coins Again - Horace E. Bennett
    • Aaronson's Addition
  4. Silk Magic
    • Silks and Telephone - Peter Oran
  5. Card Magic
    • Interlaced Location II - William Zavis
  6. Count Down Cards - Everett Lyda
  7. Your Face - Stan Lobenstern (USA)
  8. Money Magic
    • A Pass with a Folding Coin - Eddie Taytelbaum
  9. Magic with Apparatus
    • The Sympathetic Candles - Tom Sellers
  10. Review - comments from Harry Stanley
    • The Happiest of Happy New Years
    • Unique Books
    • Al Koran

  1. Volume 23, Number 9, January, 1968, 24 numbered pages - cover picture: Tom Johnston
  2. From The Gen Desk - comments from Lewis Ganson
  3. Magic from Scotland - compiled by Frederica
  4. Mental and Spirit Magic
    • A Book Force - George Hughes
  5. Rollanumba - Harry Lynn
  6. Money Magic
    • Inflation - Frederica
  7. Silver Galore - Stuart Leith
  8. Ropes en Rapport - Leslie May
  9. Silk Magic
    • Bouquet to Silk - Bob Farrell
  10. Magic with Apparatus
    • Transphosphorance - Tom Johnston
  11. Close Up Magic
    • Patriotic Discs - De Vega
  12. Card Magic
    • Co-Incidental Transpo - Dave Campbell
  13. Review - comments from Harry Stanley
    • Looking Back
    • Coin Magic
    • Cards
    • Mental
    • Books

  1. Volume 23, Number 10, February, 1968, 24 numbered pages - cover picture: Fugi Fuchs
  2. From The Gen Desk - comments from Lewis Ganson
  3. Eternal Triangle - Fogel
    • Children's Entertainers
    • Club Entertainers
    • Book Test
    • Lotto
    • Great Jewel Robbery
    • Fogel's Presentation of "The Eternal Triangle"
  4. Magic for Youngsters
    • Baloney! - Len Belcher
  5. Anti-Gravity Again - George Boss
  6. Platform Magic
    • The Pin-Cushion Balloon-Plus - Gordon Prunty
  7. Magic for the Pocket
    • Super Clipped - Charles Smith (USA)
  8. Erratum - Ropes in Rapport by Leslie May in Number 9, January, 1968, page 203
  9. Card Magic
    • Four Cards - Perhaps Aces! - John Pickstone
  10. Flummoxed by a Fox (Karrell, that is) - Horace E. Bennett
  11. Review - comments from Harry Stanley
    • Too Many Late Nights
    • "Professional Presentations"
    • "Hypnotism"
    • A Major Work
    • The Art of Illusion
    • Alan Sleath
    • The Art of Close Up Magic
    • Fugi Fuchs
    • Some Fellows

  1. Volume 23, Number 11, March, 1968, 24 numbered pages - cover picture: Bob Batey (Navette)
  2. From The Gen Desk - comments from Lewis Ganson
  3. Magic with Apparatus
    • Kandle Komedy - Bob Batey
  4. The Message in Snow - Val Andrews
  5. New Lamps for Old - series by Rink of Holland
    • Long and Short
    • An Idea for the Chinese Sticks
  6. Rainbow Chalks - Gordon Prunty
  7. Card Magic
    • Tosheroon - Bob Driebeck (Holland)
      • Tosheroon 2
      • Brainstorming Tosheroon - John F. Pooley (USA)
  8. Mental and Spirit Magic
    • City Limits - John Bragoli
  9. Money Magic
    • A Useful Coin Fake - Tom Sellers
  10. Twelve Ball Problem - C. W. Lakin
  11. Just Between Us - Part One - article by William Zavis
    • The Spread Side-Steal

  1. Volume 23, Number 12, April, 1968, 24 numbered pages - cover picture: Richard & Mary Suey
  2. From The Gen Desk - comments from Lewis Ganson
  3. Just Between Us - Part Two - article by William Zavis
    • The Riffle Side-Steal
  4. Magic with Apparatus
    • Bottler - Don Neil (Australia)
  5. Pouch-Pack Discovery - Norman Rhodes
  6. Magic for Youngsters
    • Knock Knock - Len Belcher
  7. Money Magic
    • Bennett's Okito Coin Box Routine - Horace Bennett
  8. New Lamps for Old - series by Rink of Holland
    • Double Strung

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