Club 71: 1998
by Geoff Maltby

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Issue 95

• NEWS and Reviews with Geoff Mattby
• STEVE JONES tells a story about High Society
• BARRIE RICHARDSON with a clever, different and subtle card to pocket
• JOHN RHODES with all the news that's fit to print, gleaned from around the world
• ALAN WARD with Thaumatropic Trickery
• ACE Children's entertainer Ian Adair with invaluable advice on using rabbits in for the children's performer
• ALI CARDABRA with rope and silk magic for the trendy Trixter
• ARUN BONERJEE continues his mentalism
• EXPOSURE!
• BASIC CARD TECHNIQUE chapter 26 covers the Double Lift
• EDDIE DAWES tells you what you have missed in the other magazines
• WERNER MILLER with a self working card spell
• HENRIQUE This month he offers practical advice to the full party entertainer (in addition to his usual humour)
• DIVERTING INTERESTS The important aspects of misdirection considered by Walt Lees
• AL SMITH asks if it is only magic
• PROFESSOR DAWES and all things collectible

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Issue 96

• News and Reviews by Geoff Maltby with details of a competition with £50 prize
• Zoological Conjuring From Soumya Deb (India)
• Prolific genius Ian Adair with another superb offering for the children's entertainer
• Dick Biow shows you exactly how to make your very own Barrie Richardson wrist watch
• New team member Ian Keable with sound and considered advice for every performer
• Henrique with more stories to stretch your credulity
• John Rhodes with all the magic news that's nearly fit to print and misreported in the lay press
• Al Smith considers burning topics of the day
• Eddie Dawes saves you buying the other magazines, and tells you what they said
• Werner Miller with another cunning yet concealed stunt to fool you using of all things the Svengali deck
• Our own resident guru, mentalist, Barrie Richardson who would be canonised if he were not still with us! with yet another shattering effect
• Dr. Dawes with info, on what the squirrels are doing around the world
• Alan Ward considers the Queen of the Light
• Read why the Easter issue must not be missed

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Issue 97

• News from the studio with Geoff Maltby
• Basic Card Technique continues this month with the Blitz Push Over
• Werner Miller shows the cunning Equation of the Eighth Degree
• Ali Cardabra discloses his latest in the canister conjuring series: Spectral Silk Penetration
• Ian Keable Patters on
• Eddie Dawes is Collecting his thoughts again
• The Back Window and Al Smith Counsels to 'Know Thine Enemy'
• Ian Adair with a deft use of a change bag
• Steve Jones produces a puppet
• Simon Says a Fifty Quid Bit of Business from ex-pat Simon Lovell
• Remote viewing with Barrie Richardson
• Letters. Your chance to let off steam
• Alan Ward with Scientific Sorcery
• Prof. Dawes considers the magical journals around the world
• Magic Secrets revealed on TV. Is this the end of magic as we know it?
• The masked Marauder strikes again!
• Dr Rodney King modifying and improving tricks
• Dick Biow with a Richardson Watch update
• John Rhodes, Magical Newshound sniffs it out
• Competition. Your chance to become rich and famous beyond your wildest dreams??

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Issue 98

• News and reviews with Geoff Maltby
• Comedy Patter Part two of Ian Keable's series
• Ian Adair presents a Yukkie game
• Ace Mentalist Barrie Richardson with a knockout card at any number
• Competition - At last Fame and riches may be within your grasp!!
• Wener Miller's ESPuzzle
• Simon Lovell tells it like it is
• Phil Goldstein with a trick named Dunch!
• Gora Dutta with a novel silk production
• Professor Dawes tells you what you missed in all the other Mags
• Ali Cardabra boldly presents his hidden assets for all to view
• Alan Ward cuts a very cross puzzle
• Al Smith, who considers: Performance, Jon Racherbaumer and strolling magic. (But watch out for the gorilla!)
• More meanderings from Henrique - magic's man in the irony mask
• Letters Info, Bouquet and Brickbat delivery service
• John Rhodes finds that there is a lot of magic in the lay press
• Eddie Dawes on collecting magic, auctions and costs

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Issue 99

• News and Reviews with Geoff Maltby
• Basic card Sleights. This monthg we tackle the Tabled Double Lift
• Ian Adair produces a toy train for the children's entertainer
• Ian Keable continues his series on the serious business of comedy patter
• Walt Lees with a request for informantion on Sylvani
• Alan Ward with some rather unusual drawings called 'Droodles'
• John Rhodes with a wealth of magical news from the lay press
• Andrew Webb reviews the fifth Queen Elizabeth 2 Magic Cruise
• More Miller Mysteries with concealed Mathematical principles
• Phil Goldstein with a new effect called 'The Third Manager'
• That's Me! By Solyl Kundu, producing a business card
• Al Smith ponders things magical from the privacy of his rear window
• Turning Up Trumps! An apparent demonstration of great skill brought to you by cardiste, Steve Jones
• Eddie Dawes tells you what was in the other magazines to save you buying them!
• More queer tales from a retired child minder
• The Mowers That Grow In The String by Soumya Deb
• Professor Edwin Dawes with thoughts on all things ancient and collectible

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Issue 100

• Geoff Maltby with an uncommonly brief round up of News & Reviews in and around the studio
• Editor Walt Lees with an uncommonly rare editorial
• The PK Key by Nico Thelman. Could it be real' or is it a fake?
• Annabel's Dye Tube by Fred Robinson
• Smaller and Smaller from Patrick Page: Simple props, first division effect.
• Ring for Tea (not as twee as it sounds) contributed by James Breedon
• Simon Lovell with a Teetotaller's bottle production
• Keith Downs with an illuminating torch
• Malcolme Yaffe in murderous mode, executes that cliché
• Maurice Phillips with the Monkey's Hat
• Henrique with a classic Dewdrop
• Coincidence Card contributed by Al Smith in his pre windows days
• Brian Peasrson turns detective with Cluedo
• Steve Mills and a novel balloon twist
• Tony Richards with a crazy notion of dehydrated water
• Ali Cardabra looks into a boxed mirror and sees nothing!
• Is it red or white?, queries Angelo Carbone
• It must be mind control. Barrie Richardson with one of the most dynamic effects we have ever published.

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Issue 101

• News and Reviews around the studio with Geoff
• Car Park Conundrum from Barrie Richardson
• I Scream for Ice Cream Entertainment tor the kiddiwinks from Ian Adair
• BLKJK A curious title from Phil Goldstein
• Ring in Balloon. An most unusual effect by Noel Baldaccino
• Alan Ward offers some more peculiar puzzles in his break from magic.
• Soumya Deb features a flowering wand
• Ian Keable keeps on with his comedy patter series
• Ron Escort essays a discovery with a compact disc
• Al Smith ponders WAM, Valantino and exposure
• Eddie Dawes with all that's interesting in the magic journals around the world
• Letters. This month John Crocker, Max Maven and Ian Keable chuck in their two pennyworth
• Miller's Mysteries continue with the facetiously titled FATUM
• Henrique with a shock horror admission concerning Edith Merrywhite's undergarments
• All Rhodes features interesting magical news gleaned from the lay press
• Hercule Poirot's Book Test is a novel notion from Mike Hopley
• Professor Dawes rounds up this issue with collecting thoughts.

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Issue 102

• NEWS AND REVIEWS with Geoff
• EYE-EYE with Mike Hopley
• WOOF-WOOF. Ian Adair is barking this month
• LIGHTNING CENTRE TEAR. Another touch of Richardson brilliance
• BASIC CARD TEQUNIQUE. This month we tackle the one handed Double Lift
• MO HOWARTH with a glass through coat effect. Simple, direct and very effective
• SUBTLE BAREHAND Silk Production by Soumya Deb
• TELE TUBBY TELEPATHY by Marli the Magician
• ARUN BONERJEE with a few kind words for cohabiting couples!
• ALAN WARD with a Famous Phantom from the good Doctor Pepper
• IAN KEABLE and the travails of entertaining on a ship
• EDDIE DAWES tells you what you may have missed in the rest of the world of magical journalism
• HENRIQUE with a scathing attack on the organisational abilities of women.
• JOHN RHODES with magical news in the real world of journalism
• MORE MILLER'S MYSTERIES
• AL SMITH is still curtain twitching while listening to the radiogram
• COLLECTING THOUGHTS. Prof. Dawes explains why you should buy three copies of every book!

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Issue 103

• News and Reviews from Geoff
• Banded Card in Wallet from Barrie Richardson
• So you still want to be a childrens' entertainer? asks Walt Lees
• Death on a wet afternoon. A Christmas puzzle from Alan Ward
• Henrique with a collection of non seasonal tales
• Ian Adair with another Gem for the Childrens' entertainer
• Arun Bonerjee has got your number
• This year's competition results. Are you a winner? Geoff stumps up the prizes
• Al Smith takes a walk sans zimmer frame
• Steve Jones back to the Cash Twilight Zone
• Professor Ostinini's Victorian Christmas Puzzle
• Professor Dawes on all things collectible
• Phil Goldstein is matched from the jaws of defeat
• John Rhodes with magical news from the non magical press
• Pete McCabe with some magical spilling mistooks
• Ian Keable in praise of Gene Anderson and a paper shredder
• Miller's Mysteries continues in a continental vein with the French Card Trap
• Basic Card Technique this month addresses the subject of palming
• Slick silk from Soumya Deb
• Journal Highlights with what you missed in the other magazines!

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