The Gen Volume 20 (1964)

On the covers are

• Roy Baker
• Esme Levante
• Al Flosso
• Jay Ose
• The Magic Castle
• Roger Crosthwaite
• Jack Mayes
• Oliver Mackenzie
• Horace Bennett
• Bob Olson
• Valerie and Robert Swadling
• Keith Lawrence

1. Volume 20, Number 1, May, 1964, 28 numbered pages - cover picture: Roy Baker
3. From The Gen Desk - comments from Lewis Ganson
4. Mainly Manipulative
   • Tissue Vanish - Robert Hamilton
5. Magic with Apparatus
   • Out of the Rut - or The Devil of a Box - Norman Rhodes
9. Money Magic
   • Hypno-Tisn't - Horace Bennett
12. Magic for Youngsters
    • Turkish Delight - Len Belcher
14. Lewis Ganson's Fotomagic - series
    • Magic with a Flourish - Noel Stanton
      • Top Card Turnover
      • Ambitious Card Turnover
      • Variation
      • After Dai Vernon
      • After Jerry Andrus
      • London Colour Change
20. Tricky Trading-Stamps - Val Andrews
20. Review - comments from Harry Stanley
    • Here We Go Again!
    • Mystic Craig
    • Rico
    • John Shearer
    • Joel Nash
    • Sven Kindbom
    • South Africa Week
    • Discussing Magic
    • Lewis Ganson

29. Volume 20, Number 2, June, 1964, 28 numbered pages - cover picture: Esme Levante
31. From The Gen Desk - comments from Lewis Ganson
32. Rope Magic
    • Riddles with Rope - Tom Sellers
      • 1. The Loops on the Rope
      • 2. The Migrating Knot
      • 3. The Tie on Silks
      • 4. Another Cut and Restored Rope
35. Money Magic
    • Bennett's Buffaloe - Horace Bennett
37. Magic with Apparatus
    • Just As I Thought - Len Belcher
39. The Feast of Lanterns - Len Belcher
41. Lewis Ganson's Fotomagic - series
    • 4. Magic with a Flourish - Noel Stanton
      • 1. Visual Change
      • 2. Single Card Change
      • 3. Pivot Colour Change
      • 4. Variation on the Notis Cacscade
      • 5. Flick Up Flourish
46. Beer and Blossoms - Ken de Courcy's Practicalities
48. Review - comments from Harry Stanley
    • London 2 pm - Chicago 4:40 pm
    • Las Vegas
    • Aware of the Possibility of Great Heat
    • Dunes Hotel
    • Bill Larsen
    • The Magic Castle
    • Disneyland
    • Chicago

57. Volume 20, Number 3, July, 1964, 28 numbered pages - cover picture: Al Flosso
59. From The Gen Desk - comments from Lewis Ganson
60. Mental and Spirit Magic
    • Name Revelation - John Bargoli
61. Card Magic
    • Piet Forton's "Lucky Numbers" - Lewis Ganson
64. Magic for the Pocket
    • Ball-Balance - No Skill Required - Val Andrews
65. Magic with Apparatus
    • Surprise! Surprise! Surprise! - Charles Clifton
66. My Angel - Ken de Courcy
68. Lewis Ganson's Fotomagic - series
    • 5 - More Equally Unequal Ropes
73. Close Up Magic
    • Shell-Die Subtleties - Val Andrews
      • 1. Die Through Sheet of Plastic
      • 2. Vanishing Coin
      • 3. Square to Sphere
      • 4. Die Thru' Table
76. The Wet Card Discovery - Ken de Courcy's Practicalities
77. Review - comments from Harry Stanley
    • Thank You
    • Disneyland

85. Volume 20, Number 4, August, 1964, 28 numbered pages - cover picture: Jay Ose
87. From The Gen Desk - comments from Lewis Ganson
88. Money Magic
    • Transposition - Horace Bennett [USA]
90. The Crazy World of Val Andrews
91. Card Magic
    • For Card Items - Tom Sellers
      • 1. A "Double Face" Force
      • 2. A Trick Using the Charlier Pass
      • 3. An Open Fingers Card Change
      • 4. False Shuffle for an Arranged Pack
93. Predicta-Card - David Bornstein [Denmark]
94. Mental and Spirit Magic
    • Voodoo - Albert Spackman
96. Many Years Ago - And It Happened - John Pickstone [re: Max Malini]
97. Magic with Apparatus
    • Peekaboo - The Handy Changing Mat - Val Andrews
98. Lewis Ganson's Fotomagic - series
    • Variations on Equally Unequal Ropes
102. Review - comments from Harry Stanley
     • Faucett Ross
     • The Great News
     • Johnny Hart
     • Jay Marshall
     • New York
     • Homeward Bound
     • Jens Korth

113. Volume 20, Number 5, September, 1964, 28 numbered pages - cover picture: The Magic Castle
115. From The Gen Desk - comments from Lewis Ganson
116. Card Magic
     116. It's Easy - Leo Behnke
     117. Topsy-Turvy Cutting of Aces - Gerald Kosky
119. Money Magic
     • A Coin in a Tumbler - Ross Bertram
121. Mainly Manipulative
     • A New Coin Change - Dai W. Vernon
123. Close Up Magic
     • Slippery Rocks - Dick Zimmerman
126. Rope Magic
     • The Jay Ose Thumb Tie - Faucett W. Ross
128. Magic for the Pocket
     • The Bagly Yarn Trick - Faucett W. Ross
130. A Letter from Dai Vernon - A Snappy Lift
131. Review - comments from Harry Stanley
     • Dai & Jay
     • The Magic Castle
     • The Grand Salon
     • The Music Chamber
     • Falling Freda
     • Smallest Concert Hall
     • The Close-Up Room
     • Dining Rooms
     • Johnny Hart
     • Thick Ear Department
     • "Daggering"

141. Volume 20, Number 6, October, 1964, 28 numbered pages - cover picture: Roger Crosthwaite
143. From The Gen Desk - comments from Lewis Ganson
144. Money Magic
     144. Twice Through - Ken de Courcy's Practicalities
     145. Matching Money - Ken de Courcy
146. Mental and Spirit Magic
     • Newspaper Test - Albert Spackman
148. The Golden Age of Magic - John Pickstone
     • The Query
     • More of Malini
     • Some of Byrd-Page and De Biere
149. Mainly Manipulative
     • Sleightly Coin-fusing - Horace Bennett
151. Lewis Ganson's Fotomagic - series
     • After Peeking - Dai Vernon
       • 1. Pressure Fan
       • 2. Spread Location
       • 3. To Shuffle the Card to the Top with the Riffle Shuffle
       • 4. Double Peek Control
       • 5. Three Break Control
       • 6. Multiple Peek Control
       • 7. Transferring the Break
       • 8. A Spectator Finds His Own Card
       • 9. Adaption of the Greek Break for Card Stabbing
159. Review - comments from Harry Stanley
     • Convention Time
     • Successful
     • Facilities
     • International Show
     • Mayor's Reception, Dance and Cabaret
     • Dealers' Demonstration
     • The Ken Brooke Lecture
     • The Competition
     • Ali Bongo
     • The Fountain of Ribbons
     • Classics in the Modern Manner
     • Close-Up Magic Session
     • Club Night
     • Marconick Lecture
     • The Gala Show
     • The Fogel One Man Show

169. Volume 20, Number 7, November, 1964, 28 numbered pages - cover picture: Jack Mayes
171. From The Gen Desk - comments from Lewis Ganson
172. Close Up Magic
     • Bennett's Jardine Ellis Ring Routine - Horace Bennett
175. Mental and Spirit Magic
     • Managramay - Leslie May
179. Tom Sellers' Mental Magic
     • Catching a Thought
     • The Number Behind the Door
181. Lewis Ganson's Fotomagic - series
     • Note in Cigarette - Roger Crosthwaite
185. 1-2-3 Prediction - Albert Spackman
186. Coin-Mentality - Albert Spackman
187. Magic for Youngsters
     • A Giant for Christmas - Len Belcher
189. Review - comments from Harry Stanley
     • Magic Circle Festival
     • Harry Clarke
     • "At Homes"
     • Alan Shaxton
     • A Scottish Issue

197. Volume 20, Number 8, December, 1964, 28 numbered pages - cover picture: Oliver MacKenzie
199. From The Gen Desk - comments from Lewis Ganson
200. Magic from Scotland - Frederica, complier
     200. The Writing on the Arm - Frederica
     203. Card Magic
          • Doctor's Orders or A Nine Card Trick - Jim Craig
          • Where Did They Go? - Stuart Leith
     205. Mental and Spirit Magic
          • Cross Words Across - Leslie May
     207. Silk Magic
          • Two Silk Effects - Tom Sellers
            • The Fly-Over Silks
            • An Aid for the Dyed Silks
209. Lewis Ganson's Fotomagic - series
     • JADUSUI or The Hindu Needles & Thread - Roger Crosthwaite
     • Note in Cigarette Transposition - Roger Crosthwaite
215. Sphere-O-Silks - Bill Scott
217. Silk 'N Tumblers - Dave Campbell
218. Money Magic
     • The Honest Coin Vanisher - Bob Farrell

225. Volume 20, Number 9, January, 1965, 28 numbered pages - cover picture: Horace Bennett
227. From The Gen Desk - comments from Lewis Ganson
228. The Magic of Horace Bennett
     228. Coins from Hand to Hand
     230. The Ringer
     232. Suit Yourself (A Version of Dr. Jacob Daley's Sequacious Spades)
     237. The Name's the Same
239. Punch's Publicity Piece - Dennis Patten
240. Lewis Ganson's Fotomagic - series
     • Roger Crosthwaite's Card Magic
       • Escape
       • Manipulative "Pop" Production
       • Tabled L.T.P. [Longitudinal Tenkai Palm]
       • Stab It Routine
       • L.T.P. Tabled Reverse
       • Shuffle Steal
246. Magic with Apparatus
     • Bang On! - Thos. Barker
249. Review - comments from Harry Stanley
     • Back to Normal
     • Magicians Generally
     • Congratulations
     • Johnny Hart
     • In London
     • Interest in Magic
     • Magi-Tutors
     • Swadling Swindle

253. Volume 20, Number 10, February, 1965, 24 numbered pages - cover picture: Bob Olson
255. From The Gen Desk - comments from Lewis Ganson
256. The Magic of Bob Olson [Wisconsin, USA]
     256. Copper Through Silver
     257. Card Concealment
     257. Ball Penetration and Surprise
     259. Coin Through Handkerchief - 1st Method
     259. Coin Through Handkerchief - 2nd Method
     260. Linking Ring Move
261. Mental and Spirit Magic
     • Smoking Room Only - John Bragoli
263. Lewis Ganson's Fotomagic - series
     • Roger Crosthwaite's Card Magic
       • Watch It
       • Variations
       • Envelope Reverse
       • Notes on the Needle Switch
       • A Card on Cigarette
       • Penknife Routine
268. Magic with Apparatus
     • The Flying Baron - Renato dos Santos Reis [Portugal]
270. Money Magic
     • Four Coin Production - Barry Covan [Australia]
271. Card Magic
     • One-Way Deckceptions - David Bornstein [Denmark]
     • Production of Cards - Jimmy Clarke
273. Review - comments from Harry Stanley
     • Finger Flingers
     • Studio Visitors
     • The Tornedo's
     • Lots of Shows
     • Blackpool Convention
     • The British Ring

277. Volume 20, Number 11, March, 1965, 28 numbered pages - cover picture: Robert Swadling
279. From The Gen Desk - comments from Lewis Ganson
280. Magic with Apparatus
     • Dove on Billiard Balls - Robert Swadling
283. Money Magic
     • Maupin's Change - Horace Bennett
     • A la Slydini - A Coin Vanish and Recovery - Horace Bennett
287. Close Up Magic
     • Invisible Dice - Shaz Tonami [Japan]
288. Illusions
     • More Original Escape Ideas - Charles Ruben [USA]
       • Simplex Escape Cage
       • Operating Table Escape
290. Lewis Ganson's Fotomagic - series
     • Roger Crosthwaite's Card Magic
       • Delayed
       • Two Ideas from John Gilliland
         • 1. Improved Shuffle Steal
         • 2. Second Card Steal
       • Tabled Pivot
       • Venus Rooms Mirage
       • Card to Spectator's Pocket
294. New Lamps for Old - series by Rink of Holland
     • Rings on an Endless Chain
297. Billy Russell - The Grand Old Man of Magic - Robert E. Olson
     • Howard Thurston
     • The Russell Scrap Books
     • Critic for the Thurston Show
     • Rabbit Production
     • The Floating Lady
     • Bowl of Water Production

305. Volume 20, Number 12, April, 1965, 28 numbered pages - cover picture: Keith Lawrence
307. From The Gen Desk - comments from Neville Finney & Lewis Ganson
308. The Magic of Keith Lawrence
     308. On Edge Coin Vanish
     309. A Working Man's Trick
     310. Impromptu Stacked Deck
310. Mental and Spirit Magic
     • Restored and Burnt Banknote - Eric Diffen
312. Money Magic
     • Passe Passe Coins - Ken Russell
314. Magic with Apparatus
     • Milk to Dove Production - Charles Gauci
315. Hung One - Hung Two - Hung Three - Jack Roy
317. Lewis Ganson's Fotomagic - series
     • Roger Crosthwaite on Cards
       • Think-A-Card
320. Mainly Manipulative
     • Two Billiard Ball Colour Changes - Peter Rodda
       • Drop Through Colour Change
       • Colour Change in Transit
322. Card Magic
     • Double Twin Coincidence - Andy Anthonsen
323. Review - comments from Harry Stanley
     • Once Again
     • Abracadabra
     • Last Month
     • Be Realistic
     • Blackpool Convention
     • Blasted
     • I.B.M. British Ring
     • The Speeches
     • The Cabaret
     • April Conventions
     • Magic Circle Diamond Jubilee
     • Johnny Hart
     • Billy Stanley
     • New Readers
     • Have Your Gens Bound
     • Dennis Patten