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41. Classified - ads
53. one-page insert for 40th Anniversary Number of The Sphinx

1. The "Tops" - Volume 6, Number 4 - April 1941 - 52 pages
7. Index - Contents (including advertisers)
8. Editorial - Percy Abbott
9. Sid Lorraine's Chatter
   • Al and Dai - effect - Al Baker & Dai Vernon
   • Magic and Mysteries of India - Eddie Joseph
   • The Sphinx, March
   • Questions and Answers
13. Ne-Deal Poker Hand - U. F. Grant
13. Pittsburgh Magicians Have Dinner Meeting
14. Conjuring Potpourri - John Braun
16. Heigh Ho! For a Magnet Magic Contest
16. Magicians' Use of Photography Subject of Story
17. A Magician Goes to Dinner - Eddie Joseph - Part Three
    • The Aerial Match
    • The Crappy Coins
    • The Ring and The Coin
20. For Your Own Amazement - Winston Freer ...

1. ...Wizard Club of Chicago - Stan Lee Abrams
19. John Brown Cook Marries
19. re: Harry E. Cecil
19. For Vents Only - George McAthy
20. Around New York - Max Holden
21. On Night Club Magic - Mortimer the Magician (M. John Ruger)
    • The Devil With It
    • It Floats
    • Cards Galore
24. The Future Greats - Bill Pitts
25. Magic Outdoors - L. E. Roba Collins
25. re: Vernon Cook - baby announcement

1. The "Tops" - Volume 9, Number 2 - February 1944 - 32 pages
1. Cover - George McAthy
3. With the Editor - Percy Abbott
3. Contents
4. George McAthy - West Coast Vent-Magician
4. G.I. Magic - Pvt. Bill Fessler
5. Sid Lorraine's Chatter
   • reviews
     • Out of This...

1. ...Elusive Six-Card Trick - Roxy
2. Magic Springtime - Recil Bordner
4. Answer the Question - Percy Abbott
4. The Comet Trick Revamped - George F. Wright
6. The Little Red House - J. F. James
7. Yank-Ho Razor Trick - Demon Rembrandt
7. Tops! - re: circulation - The Editor
8. Ventriloquist Cliff Gest Makes Hit in U.S. - Robert E. Hair
10. re: Vernon Carr
10. The Penetrating Ring - Joe Harris
10. Thimble Vanish Gimmick
11. Dusting Off Some Old Ones - Eddie Joseph
    • Soot Sorcery
      • The Profile - Effect 1
      • Addition - Effect 2
      • Designs - Effect 3
      • Card in Soot - Effect 4
      • Revelation - Effect 5
      • Present Company Included - Effect 6
      • The Spirit Writes - Effect 7 ...

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     • ... in Print, Volume 1 - Jack Potter
     • Magic for Magicians - Nightingale the Mystifier
19. Sid Lorraine's Tip of the Month
    • card games for children
20. McAthy's Ventopics - George McAthy
21. Cat Burglar - Stewart James
22. Magic at the Circus - H. R. Foster
24. The Dragon - Page dedicated to Vernon E. Lux
    • Magic for Beginners
      • How About Your Personality? - John Goodrum
25. Poet's Corner - Marie Antoinette Dornfield
    • St. Valentine's Day
26. The Reluctant Runagate - Eddie Joseph
28. Entre Nous - Dorny (Werner Dornfield)
    • Magicalities Miscellaneous
    • Three in One - Dorny
29. Conjuring with...

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     1. ... - Jim Styeinmeyer
     57. Okito Revers-embly - Chad Long
  62. Flim-Flam - Bob Farmer
      • Double-Barreled & Double-Headed Chumps
      • Pocket Change
      • Two Heads Are Better Than One
      • Two Out Of Three Ain't Bad
      • None Out OF Three
      • Two Out Of Three Ain't Badder
  65. Product Reviews
      • The Vernon Chronicles Videos, Volumes 1, 2, & 3 - Bruce Cervon & Louis Falanga - reviewed by Stephen Hobbs & Chuck Fayne
      • Dai Vernon An Interview 1974 - Tony DeLap, interviewer - two video tapes - reviewed by Chuck Fayne & Stephen Hobbs
      • Classic Carney - videotape - reviewed by Stephen Hobbs
      • Las Vegas Card Expert - The Allan Ackerman Video, Volume...

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   78. Hands Off Hofzinsser - Peter Duffie
   80. The Incomplete Faro - Edward Marlo
83. Theory In Practice - Stand-Up Japan - Steve Cohen
    84. Ground Up - Yuji Wada
86. Theory In Practice - Flim-Flam - Tony Forgio
    • Farmer's Dead
      • The Real Secret Of Cheating At Cards
      • Did Vernon Ever Cheat?
      • The Real Secret Of Cheating At Dice
      • Erdnase Don't Know Nothin'
      • Words You Gotta Know
      • Arrividerci
87. Martin Gardner's Corner
    • Zombie Glass
87. cartoon - Grand Delusions - by Morgan
89. Product Reviews - Mike Close & Mac King
    • Hello, I Must Be Going ...

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   75. Attribution Retribution
   77. Sired Liar - Edward Marlo
77. Martin Gardner's Corner
    • Balancing A Book
79. Theory In Practice - Conjuring - Jim Steinmeyer
    • The Perforated Brick
85. Marketplace - Michael Close
    • Darwinism
      • Classic Sampler - Michael Skinner - book
      • Dai Vernon's Inner Card Trilogy - Lewis Ganson - combined volumes
      • Blizzard - Dean Dill - effect
      • The Baby Bag - Algonquin McDuff - prop in a book
      • Dishonest Abe - Gregory Wilson - effect
      • New Pen Through Quarter - Al Lamfers - effect
      • The Complete Dungeon - Anthony Owen, editor - magazine...

1. ... Boxes - Mark Nelson
69. Talk About Tricks - Joshua Jay
    69. Dave Forrest One Man Issue
        70. Flush Aces - Dave Forrest
        71. Box-Flip - Dave Forrest
        74. Clipper Coins - Dave Forrest
        78. Migration - Dave Forrest
        79. Beer Bottle Bit - Dave Forrest
        80. Expertalk - Outs of Mind, Dave Forrest on Vernon's Out of Sight, Out of Mind
86. Turn It Around - Magic For The Family Audience - David Kaye (Silly Billy)
    • Kill the Counselor
    • David Levitan
88. Out of My Mind - Anthony Owen
    • Sticky Intruder
90. Seeing the Dark - Robert E. Neale
    • Part Four: The Moral Shadow
94. Magic Marketplace
    • Bob White Presents...

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   • ... - iPhone app - reviewed by Will Houstoun
   • Industrial Strength Link - Richard Osterlind - effect - reviewed by Francis Menotti
   • Ultimate CSB Magic - Jeremy Pei - DVD - reviewed by Peter Duffie
   • Classics - Marvels of Mystery - John Booth - book - re-viewed by Gabe Fajuri
   • Classics - Early Vernon - Dai Vernon & Faucett Ross - book - re-viewed by Gabe Fajuri
   • Sugar High - Chris Randall - effect on DVD - reviewed by Brad Henderson
   • Lightning Box - Bob Kohler - effect with DVD - reviewed by John Lovick
   • Sub Zero - Spidey & Amir Latif - effect with DVD - reviewed by Peter Duffie ...

1. ... Society - Nicky Ramos-Beban & David Cox
42. Six - re: Michael "Six" Muldoon - Jaq Greenspon
46. Tips to Become a Pro Magic Lecturer - David Stone
52. In One - Joseph Barry
    52. LLL Peek
    53. Thoughts on the In-Hands Spread Force
    54. STOCAN (Simple Thought-Of Card at Number)
    54. Freedom Stacking
    56. Thanks to Vernon
58. First Look: Card Party - Lewis Jones
    58. Hasterix
    59. The Rule of Three
60. First Look: Master Course: Cups & Balls - Daryl
    60. Charlie Miller's Move
    61. Elimination Sequence
    62. Daryl's Cup & Ball Routine
64. Loving Mentalism - Ian Rowland
    • Venus Mind Trap
66. Finn Jon's Esoterica
    • Magnetic Fingers
70. Bent on Deception - Mike Bent
    • George Washington's False(hood)...

• Introduction
• Contributors
• The Hamman Twist (Brother John Hamman)
• Krenzel's Tunnel Change (Ken Krenzel)
• Dingle's Tunnel Change (Derek Dingle)
• No Force Vanish & Recovery (Jon Racherbaumer)
• Off-Sho Ot (Jon Racherbaumer)
• Jump-Jump Aces (Edward Marlo)
• The 999 Miracle (Edward Marlo)
• Pineapple Twist (Bruce Cervon - Dai Vernon)
• Sober Slop Poker (Edward Marlo)
• Breakless Curry Change (Edward Marlo)
• The Four Ace ... Er ... Queen Trick (Edward Marlo)
• Flash Sandwich (Jon Racherbaumer)
• Fair On All Points (Edward Marlo)
• The Missing Hour (Edward Marlo)
• The Viet Nam Trick (Bruce Cervon - Dai Vernon)
• A Quickie (Edward Marlo)
• Exhibitionism (Edward Marlo) ...

If Gambling demonstrations are your favorite area of pursuit, after reading the pages of I'll Pass you'll be able to perform the legendary "Ping Pong Shift." I'm not talking about the Vernon theory, as shared with Faucett Ross, but the real "Ping Pong Shift." The technique is so deceptive it could get by without question in even the strictest card game.

I'll Pass includes Wesley's celebrated detailed descriptions, commentary and the secrets that make Wesley's Passes among the...

From the preface and introduction:

Connoisseurs' Coins Through ... a definitive routine, one of the finest ever for the coins through table. The work of Vernon, Slydini and a host of others combined to give the easiest handling with the maximum effect. In this routine several coins pass repeatedly through the table. You begin with six coins. Three of the coins pass through the table top two times. Then you eliminate two coins and repeat the penetration through the table with four coins. Again, you eliminate two coins and repeat the trick with two coins. At the end you eliminate another coin and repeat the penetration a last...

A retrospective look at Dai Vernon's Five-Card Mental Force.

• Introduction
• The Prototypal Version From Early Vernon
• A Woolgather's Aside
• My Skirmish with the Five-Card Mental Force
• 30 Years Passed
• Five Card Mental Farce / David Acer
• Max on Five-Card Mental Force / Max Maven
• Outtings
• Rescuing the Five-Card Mental Force / Allan Slaight
• The Ultra Effect / Paul Rylander
• Dai-Cipher / Phil Goldstein
• I Have It / Edward Marlo
• Psyboards / Tom Frame
• Indisputably Predictable / Jon Racherbaumer
• Post Mortem

An incredible stack that was worked out by hand at a time when computers were not available. The experts were impressed:

"In actual play, that would get the money." - Dai Vernon

"... the best stack since Rusduck's. - Ross Bertram

"... interesting and has possibilities at the gaming table." - Faucett Ross

"... Ned, you've come across a real gem, don't tip it." - Orville Meyer

"Vernon should see this." - Francis Carlyle

The spectator takes a shuffled deck. The spectator makes a choice of the type of poker to be played:

• Straight Poker
• Stud Poker ( 5 – 6 – or 7 card)
• Blackjack
• Draw Poker

This manuscript is about one trick that incorporates a seminal sorting procedure now given the name Belcho's Disbursive Deal. Over the years the trick eventually morphed into an organized compilation that shares the same identifiable title: "Poker Player's Picnic."

It begins with Vernon Lux, an enterprising amateur who founded the International Society of Junior Magician in 1931 and began a magazine called The Dragon in 1932. Therein Oscar Weigle had a column called "Themes and Schemes" where he explained a trick called "The Million to One Trick." (Later it was changed to "Belchou's Aces.") It's unclear...

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   • Black Bunny
   • Snap Tail
   • A Short Tail
238. Bat's Belfry - editor's comments
238. Gag Bag
239. figures for Funny Bunny Business
240. Puzzle Corner
240. The Match-ic Penny - Douglas Francis
241. Keeping TAB on Men and Books
     • Watch This One! - J. B. Bobo
     • 33 Rope Ties and Chain Releases - Burling Hull
     • Dai Vernon
     • Lane's Patter Book
     • This Week magazine
     • Will Desmond
     • Harry Canar
     • Tom Dethlefsen
     • The Magic Wand to reappear
     • Harry K. Shigeta
     • Dr. Zina Bennett
     • The Blackstone Show
242. Great Card Tricks - Glenn G. Gravatt
     • Perplexity
     • Miracle Card Location
243. Trickster Monthly (report from B.A.T.) ...

1. ...A Billiard Ball Finale - Joseph Ovette
484. Gag Bag
     • Man Overboard - Tom Barton
     • The Vanishing Matches
     • The Stars of the Firmament
     • The Wonderful Vanishing Umbrellas
     • Candidates for an Oscar
485. Great Card Tricks - Glenn G. Gravatt
     • The Inquisitive Jack
     • Easy Card Discovery
     • Simple Location
485. Now Ready - Dai Vernon's Select Secrets - new edition
486. advertisements
488. P.C.A.M. flyer

489. The Bat - Number Sixty-Five - May 1949 - 12 pages
489. caricature of Caryl S. Fleming
490. Bat's Belfry - editor's comments
     • Magic in the Modern Manner - Orville Mayer - printed
     • magic contest
     • Caryl S. Fleming
     • P.C.A.M. Convention plans
     • Dr. Henry Ridgely...

'Mexican Joe' refers to a specially crimped card or deck, one that is crimped at diagonal corners in opposite directions.

The first person to publish anything on this crimp was Victor Farelli when he published Farelli's Card Magic. Several years passed before another mention is made. This time it was explained in Dai Vernon's More Inner Secrets of Card Magic. Racherbaumer collects a number of routines and ideas with this crimp. In so doing he weaves his way through some interesting nooks and crannies of card magic history.

• Prologue
• Introduction
• Origins
• The Double Crimp
• Mexican Joe's Crimp: Dai Vernon
• Applying The Work
• Marlo Dead...

Enjoy the great mental magic by contributors such as Al Koran, Bill Miesel, Peter Warlock, Dai Vernon, U.F. Grant, Eddie Clever and even T. A. Waters, and of course a good amount by Don Tanner and Jack Dean themselves.

You will receive issues 1 (October 1962) - 33 (September 1965) and the incomplete issue number 34. Includes a foreword by Paul Alberstat.

No. 1

• Central Time / North Bigbee
• Impromptu Clip Board / U. F. Grant
• Mindevelopmental / Howard A. Adams
• Mental Memos / Don Tanner

No. 2

• ESP Elimination / Joe White
• Long Wave Reception / T. A. Waters
• Shine / Jack Ketch
• Mental Memos / Don Tanner

No. 3

• Bold / Julies...

really delighted with 'One More Thought On Cards.' It is, in my opinion, the best — the very best ever written, explaining how to present and handle this type of effect. [Smith's] clean and uncluttered layouts and simplified handling make these little effects sparkle. The book is SUPERB." - Dai Vernon

"Not since Annemann has magicdom been given anything to equal it." - J. B. Bobo

"[Smith's] explanation of Vernon's Multiple Shift, for example, is really a classic. About the clearest explanation I've ever read of this sleight." - Bill Simon

"For directness and clarity, I find this the most rewarding...