The Gen Volume 20 (1964)
by Harry Stanley & Lewis Ganson

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The Gen Volume 20 (1964) by Harry Stanley & Lewis Ganson

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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

332 pages

Volume 20, Number 1, May, 1964, 28 numbered pages - cover picture: Roy Baker
From The Gen Desk - comments from Lewis Ganson
Mainly Manipulative
- Tissue Vanish - Robert Hamilton
Magic with Apparatus
- Out of the Rut - or The Devil of a Box - Norman Rhodes
Money Magic
- Hypno-Tisn't - Horace Bennett
Magic for Youngsters
- Turkish Delight - Len Belcher
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
Tricky Trading-Stamps - Val Andrews
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

Volume 20, Number 2, June, 1964, 28 numbered pages - cover picture: Esme Levante
From The Gen Desk - comments from Lewis Ganson
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
Money Magic
- Bennett's Buffaloe - Horace Bennett
Magic with Apparatus
- Just As I Thought - Len Belcher
The Feast of Lanterns - Len Belcher
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
Beer and Blossoms - Ken de Courcy's Practicalities
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

Volume 20, Number 3, July, 1964, 28 numbered pages - cover picture: Al Flosso
From The Gen Desk - comments from Lewis Ganson
Mental and Spirit Magic
- Name Revelation - John Bargoli
Card Magic
- Piet Forton's "Lucky Numbers" - Lewis Ganson
Magic for the Pocket
- Ball-Balance - No Skill Required - Val Andrews
Magic with Apparatus
- Surprise! Surprise! Surprise! - Charles Clifton
My Angel - Ken de Courcy
Lewis Ganson's Fotomagic - series
- 5 - More Equally Unequal Ropes
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
The Wet Card Discovery - Ken de Courcy's Practicalities
Review - comments from Harry Stanley
- Thank You
- Disneyland

Volume 20, Number 4, August, 1964, 28 numbered pages - cover picture: Jay Ose
From The Gen Desk - comments from Lewis Ganson
Money Magic
- Transposition - Horace Bennett [USA]
The Crazy World of Val Andrews
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
Predicta-Card - David Bornstein [Denmark]
Mental and Spirit Magic
- Voodoo - Albert Spackman
Many Years Ago - And It Happened - John Pickstone [re: Max Malini]
Magic with Apparatus
- Peekaboo - The Handy Changing Mat - Val Andrews
Lewis Ganson's Fotomagic - series
- Variations on Equally Unequal Ropes
Review - comments from Harry Stanley
- Faucett Ross
- The Great News
- Johnny Hart
- Jay Marshall
- New York
- Homeward Bound
- Jens Korth

Volume 20, Number 5, September, 1964, 28 numbered pages - cover picture: The Magic Castle
From The Gen Desk - comments from Lewis Ganson
Card Magic
1. It's Easy - Leo Behnke
2. Topsy-Turvy Cutting of Aces - Gerald Kosky
Money Magic
- A Coin in a Tumbler - Ross Bertram
Mainly Manipulative
- A New Coin Change - Dai W. Vernon
Close Up Magic
- Slippery Rocks - Dick Zimmerman
Rope Magic
- The Jay Ose Thumb Tie - Faucett W. Ross
Magic for the Pocket
- The Bagly Yarn Trick - Faucett W. Ross
A Letter from Dai Vernon - A Snappy Lift
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"

Volume 20, Number 6, October, 1964, 28 numbered pages - cover picture: Roger Crosthwaite
From The Gen Desk - comments from Lewis Ganson
Money Magic
1. Twice Through - Ken de Courcy's Practicalities
2. Matching Money - Ken de Courcy
Mental and Spirit Magic
- Newspaper Test - Albert Spackman
The Golden Age of Magic - John Pickstone
- The Query
- More of Malini
- Some of Byrd-Page and De Biere
Mainly Manipulative
- Sleightly Coin-fusing - Horace Bennett
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
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

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

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

Volume 20, Number 9, January, 1965, 28 numbered pages - cover picture: Horace Bennett
From The Gen Desk - comments from Lewis Ganson
The Magic of Horace Bennett
1. Coins from Hand to Hand
2. The Ringer
3. Suit Yourself (A Version of Dr. Jacob Daley's Sequacious Spades)
4. The Name's the Same
Punch's Publicity Piece - Dennis Patten
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
Magic with Apparatus
- Bang On! - Thos. Barker
Review - comments from Harry Stanley
- Back to Normal
- Magicians Generally
- Congratulations
- Johnny Hart
- In London
- Interest in Magic
- Magi-Tutors
- Swadling Swindle

Volume 20, Number 10, February, 1965, 24 numbered pages - cover picture: Bob Olson
From The Gen Desk - comments from Lewis Ganson
The Magic of Bob Olson [Wisconsin, USA]
1. Copper Through Silver
2. Card Concealment
3. Ball Penetration and Surprise
4. Coin Through Handkerchief - 1st Method
5. Coin Through Handkerchief - 2nd Method
6. Linking Ring Move
Mental and Spirit Magic
- Smoking Room Only - John Bragoli
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
Magic with Apparatus
- The Flying Baron - Renato dos Santos Reis [Portugal]
Money Magic
- Four Coin Production - Barry Covan [Australia]
Card Magic
- One-Way Deckceptions - David Bornstein [Denmark]
- Production of Cards - Jimmy Clarke
Review - comments from Harry Stanley
- Finger Flingers
- Studio Visitors
- The Tornedo's
- Lots of Shows
- Blackpool Convention
- The British Ring

Volume 20, Number 11, March, 1965, 28 numbered pages - cover picture: Robert Swadling
From The Gen Desk - comments from Lewis Ganson
Magic with Apparatus
- Dove on Billiard Balls - Robert Swadling
Money Magic
- Maupin's Change - Horace Bennett
- A la Slydini - A Coin Vanish and Recovery - Horace Bennett
Close Up Magic
- Invisible Dice - Shaz Tonami [Japan]
Illusions
- More Original Escape Ideas - Charles Ruben [USA]
  - Simplex Escape Cage
  - Operating Table Escape
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
New Lamps for Old - series by Rink of Holland
- Rings on an Endless Chain
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

Volume 20, Number 12, April, 1965, 28 numbered pages - cover picture: Keith Lawrence
From The Gen Desk - comments from Neville Finney & Lewis Ganson
The Magic of Keith Lawrence
1. On Edge Coin Vanish
2. A Working Man's Trick
3. Impromptu Stacked Deck
Mental and Spirit Magic
- Restored and Burnt Banknote - Eric Diffen
Money Magic
- Passe Passe Coins - Ken Russell
Magic with Apparatus
- Milk to Dove Production - Charles Gauci
Hung One - Hung Two - Hung Three - Jack Roy
Lewis Ganson's Fotomagic - series
- Roger Crosthwaite on Cards
  - Think-A-Card
Mainly Manipulative
- Two Billiard Ball Colour Changes - Peter Rodda
  - Drop Through Colour Change
  - Colour Change in Transit
Card Magic
- Double Twin Coincidence - Andy Anthonsen
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

word count: 136661 which is equivalent to 546 standard pages of text

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