The Phoenix No. 251-300
by Bruce Elliott

• No. 251
  • Emlyn Williams, the English actor. [Personalities]
  • Bow-Tie [Paper] / G. Legman
  • The Lotus (paper folding) [Paper] / G. Legman
  • Pavane For A Pagan (paper ball) [Balls]
  • Magicians Club Entrance from "Lilliput" - sent by Dr. Jaks [Cartoons - Artists]
  • Pavane for a Pagan (preparation) [Paper]
• No. 252
  • Hal's Hallucination (billets) [Apparatus] / H. M. Greenberg
  • Fourth Dimensional Turning (signature made with money making machine) [Paper]
  • Glen Pope [Personalities]
  • Leslie Barrie [Personalities]
  • The Easter Bunny [Puzzles]
• No. 253
  • The Unambitious Card (reversed effect) [Cards - Impromptu] / Dai Vernon
  • Upsy-Downsy (set up) [Cards - Arranged] / Ron Edwards
  • It's the Humidity [Cards - Preparation, Duplicates] / Ben Braude
  • Stuck! [Clippings]
  • Bill Tube in Ice Cube! [Gags]
  • Quarter Shrinks to Dime [Gags]
  • Haunting! [Gags]
• No. 254
  • Harnessed [Handkerchief, Rings] / Bill Simon
  • Keating's Journey (also see page 1021) [Clippings]
  • Wire-Less (preparation, radio) [Mental Effects] / Hamid Sayani
  • Cubism (sugar cubes) [Miscellaneous] / Martin Gardner
• No. 255
  • Matchic (preparation) [Matches] / Walter Essman
  • Mentalexicon (set up) [Cards - Arranged, Mental Effects] / Fred Fletcher
  • Go! (mental, preparation) [Book, Magazine & Newspaper Tests] / Herb Runge
  • Spades Hearts Clubs Diamonds [Cards - Arranged] / Rusduck
  • Go! (magazine) [Mental Effects]
  • Raw Deal in Spades [Clippings]
• No. 256
  • Garcia's Bow Geste (preparation) [Cigarettes]
  • Rotator [Cards - Preparation, Duplicates] / Rusduck
  • Shot, spits bullet out of his teeth. [Clippings]
  • Date (paper tear and restoration) [Miscellaneous] / Norman Jensen
  • The Magician [Clippings]
  • Sucker Money Casino [Clippings]
• No. 257
  • Invisible Waiter (preparation) [Apparatus, Liquids] / Jack Miller
  • Dope! (card in wallet) [Apparatus] / Bill Simon
  • Further Out Of This World [Cards - Preparation, Duplicates]
  • Cigarette on Flashpaper [Cigarettes]
  • Hard Way [Dice]
  • Glen Pope's Glass Trick [Liquids]
• No. 258
  • Garcia's Clip It [Cards - Preparation, Duplicates]
  • Smoking Sailor (preparation) [Apparatus] / George Blake
  • The Juicy Card (in can of frozen juice) (can found in grapefruit) [Apparatus]
  • The Easiest Monte [Cards - Arranged]
  • It's Tragic (poem on magic) [Miscellaneous]
• No. 259
  • P.R.P. (coins) [Apparatus] / John A. M. Howie
  • Pool Room Prestidigitation [Coins]
  • Force (preparation) [Mental Effects] / John P. Hamilton
  • Squashed (coins, preparation) [Apparatus, Coins] / Walter Essman
  • Jay Marshall at the Roxy - "Variety" [Clippings]
• No. 260
  • Peek Stab (paper break) [Cards - Arranged, Paper] / William W. Larsen
  • Under-Hand Coin (mental) [Coins, Mental Effects] / Gerald Kosky
  • Elliott on Ellis [Handkerchief, Rings]
  • Fred Keating vs. Bruce Elliott (Part 1) [Letters]
• No. 261
  • Sex Appeal (movie stars on index cards) [Mental Effects] / Hen Fetsch & Cy Keller
  • Hole The Coin [Coins] / Cy Keller & Hen Fetsch
  • Cheap Faro! [Mental Effects, Rings, Silks] / Cy Keller & Hen Fetsch
  • Mind Your Future! (mental) [Cards - Arranged, Mental Effects] / Hen Fetsch & Cy Keller
  • Fred Keating vs. Bruce Elliott (Part 2) [Letters]
• No. 262
  • Out Of Print! [Cigarettes] / Lu Brent
  • Extra Sensory Prestidigitation [Mental Effects] / Clinkscale & Taylor
  • Fred Keating vs. Bruce Elliott (Part 3) [Letters]
• No. 263
  • Al'n Dai Again [Cards - Arranged] / Dai Vernon
  • Garcia's Interlude [Cards - Impromptu]
  • Buttonholed [Rings] / James Torry
  • Bruce Elliott vs. Fred Keating [Letters]
• No. 264
  • Tri-Fly (30 card trick) [Cards - Arranged] / Franklin V. Taylor
  • Re-V-Eyes-D [Cards - Arranged]
  • Coin Tip [Coins]
  • To Goodliffe about "Stars of Magic" [Letters]
  • Light(er) Novelty [Matches]
  • Flash on the Glass [Paper]
  • Puzzle in Weights [Puzzles]
  • Solitaired!! [Cards - Arranged]
  • What the average magician thinks he looks like! - by Ravielli [Cartoons - Artists]
• No. 265
  • Prescience [Mental Effects] / H. A. Adams
  • D.F.C. [Cards - Preparation, Duplicates] / Arthur Hastings
  • Al'n Dai Again [Cards - Arranged]
  • It Floats [Matches]
  • Puzzle in Weights -- solution. [Puzzles]
• No. 266
  • Concepts Never Die [Mental Effects] / Ray Hyman
  • Tri-Lie (mental) [Cards - Preparation, Duplicates]
  • Wired [Cigarettes] / Johnny Murray
  • Magnagrip [Coins] / J. P. Hamilton
  • Die-Lie [Dice] / Johnny Murray
  • Tri-Lie (Slates) [Mental Effects] / H. A. Adams
  • Vernon's Silhouette of Judy [Cartoons - Artists]
• No. 267
  • It's My Move (poison glass) [Liquids, Mental Effects] / Vic Koehler
  • Thumb Fun [Handkerchief, Rings] / Franklin V. Taylor
• No. 268
  • Spirits in Camera (coins) [Apparatus, Coins] / John Howie
  • Fan It! [Cards - Impromptu] / Kenneth H. Becker
  • Vernon on Taylor on Ellis [Handkerchief]
  • Scarne's Weighing Problem [Puzzles]
  • Vernon on Taylor on Ellis [Rings]
• No. 269
  • Jinx-ed [Cards - Arranged] / Rusduck
  • Slip Clip [Coins] / Kirk Stiles
  • Tough Trough [Coins, Handkerchief] / Dudley Fossum
  • Scarne's Weighing Problem -- solution. [Puzzles]
  • Surrealistic Sorcery [Cards - Preparation, Duplicates]
  • Roasted Phoenix - sent in by Bill Dodson [Cartoons - Artists]
  • Keating and Elliott on Godfrey Show. [Personalities]
  • Chris Charlton [Personalities]
• No. 270
  • Audley's Best [Cards - Arranged]
  • Snap-aroo With A Die [Dice] / Audley Walsh
• No. 271
  • Fir You! (paper tree) [Paper] / Martin Gardner
  • Spun! [Coins] / Kirk Stiles
  • Paquette's Baguette! (ring on wand) [Handkerchief, Rings]
  • Bruce Elliott on Nancy Craig's T.V. show. [Personalities]
• No. 272
  • Miser's Dream Come True! (from "Classic Secrets of Magic") [Coins] / Bruce Elliott
  • ESP and PK (chapter 25, excerpt from, "In the Name of Science"--M. Gardner) [Mental Effects]
• No. 273
  • Bases Loaded [Mental Effects] / Milbourne Christopher
  • Lingam-Yoni (paper fold) [Paper] / G. Legman
  • Ho Hum - sent in by G. Legman [Cartoons - Artists]
  • Better Thumb Fun [Handkerchief, Rings]
• No. 274
  • Daley's Conceit! (cardboard tube) [Paper, Rings]
  • S.R.S. (Slide Rule Sorcery) [Mental Effects] / Walter Essman
  • Beerie (liquid) [Handkerchief, Liquids] / Wally Dean
  • Tip on "Invisible Waiter" [Liquids]
  • Heat Transference (with Magic Heat) [Miscellaneous]
• No. 275
  • Loops Entwined [Handkerchief, Rope and String] / Jack Avis
  • Dulin's Drink (mental) [Liquids, Mental Effects]
  • Personality Plus [Cards - Arranged] / F. V. Schoneck
  • Tipped [Cigarettes]
  • Demented Dice [Dice]
  • Dr. Samuel Johnson [Personalities]
  • Flick Back [Gags]
  • Natural Magick--circa 1658 [Gags]
  • Poker Problem [Puzzles]
• No. 276
  • Don Tanner's 4 Items: #1 Cigarette & miniature cards, 3 effects [Cards - Preparation, Duplicates]
  • Tricky Mentalist [Cards - Arranged] / Gerald Kosky
  • Don Tanner's 4 Items: #3 -- By Sound! [Mental Effects]
  • Don Tanner's 4 Items: #2 -- Writing in Ashes [Mental Effects]
  • Tricky Mentalist (card set up) [Mental Effects]
  • Clipped Thoughts (buttered clipboard!) [Mental Effects] / Walter Essman
  • Don Tanner's 4 Items: #4 -- Bumps! [Miscellaneous]
  • Poker Problem -- solution. [Puzzles]
  • "Magic As A Hobby" (in French) [Elliott in Print]
  • "Classic Secrets of Magic" [Elliott in Print]
  • Warlock's Thumb Fun [Handkerchief]
  • Lou Tannen's railroad. [Personalities]
  • Warlock's Thumb Fun [Rings]
• No. 277
  • A Lesson In Magic [Cards - Impromptu] / Bruce Elliott
  • Follow The Leader, Jr. [Cards - Impromptu] / Dai Vernon
  • Ron Edward's Quickie #1 [Cards - Impromptu]
  • Ron Edward's Quickie #2 (set up) [Coins]
  • Ricky Teaches Bill Fire Eating! [Miscellaneous]
• No. 278
  • Simon Eyes! [Cards - Arranged] / Jaks
  • Gone Ball [Balls, Handkerchief] / Tommy Vanderschmidt
  • Weird Control [Cards - Preparation, Duplicates] / Ronald B. Edwards
  • Post Card (poison pen) [Letters]
  • Weird Control [Spirit Effects]
  • Next Card Is It [Cards - Preparation, Duplicates]
  • Yogi Tells [Cards - Preparation, Duplicates, Mental Effects]
• No. 279
  • The Phoenix -- 1794 [Clippings]
  • Boxed [Gags]
  • Radar Magnet [Miscellaneous]
  • J. Murray uses Herpick's Pencil [Miscellaneous]
  • Bil's Bell (sounds like dice) [Apparatus]
  • Pocket Slide Rule [Apparatus]
  • Ron's Ramblings (prediction) [Book, Magazine & Newspaper Tests]
  • Anneman's Slates & Aces in Miniature [Cards - Preparation, Duplicates]
  • UpSideDown picture - by Martin Gardner [Cartoons - Artists]
  • Fire Eater [Clippings]
  • Bil's Bell [Dice]
  • Ron's Ramblings [Mental Effects]
  • Anneman's Slates & Aces in Miniature [Spirit Effects]
  • C. B. Yohe writes about issue #277 [Letters]
  • Peppery (new twist on salt trick) [Miscellaneous]
  • Bruce Elliott with Henry Morgan. [Personalities]
• No. 280
  • Trilemma (3 effects) [Cards - Preparation, Duplicates, Mental Effects] / H. A. Adams
  • Tower Of Hanoi (puzzle) [Cards - Arranged, Puzzles] / Max Katz
  • The Anonymous Writer - by Ravielli [Cartoons - Artists]
• No. 281
  • Ghost Thimble (4 phases) [Spirit Effects, Thimbles] / John Howie
  • Sword Play [Apparatus, Cards - Preparation, Duplicates] / Mark A. Fitzgerald
  • Keating Lecture [Clippings]
  • Jay Marshall does Million Dollar paper tear. [Paper]
• No. 282
  • Topper (ambitious card) [Cards - Impromptu] / Garcia
  • Made Match [Matches] / W. Essman
  • Kort Coin [Coins]
  • Dollar Bills (poor gamblers!) [Clippings]
  • Baseball Bet [Gags]
  • Himber Show [Personalities]
  • New Job [Personalities]
  • How to wrap the rifle? [Puzzles]
• No. 283
  • Poker Plus [Cards - Arranged] / Rusduck
  • Elmsley's 4 Efforts: #1 -- for Follow the Leader [Cards - Arranged]
  • Elmsley's 4 Efforts: #2 -- is mental [Cards - Arranged]
  • Elmsley's 4 Efforts: #4 -- is mental [Cards - Arranged]
  • Elmsley's 4 Efforts: #3 -- torn-restored cigarette [Cigarettes]
  • Rabbit Girl - by Dudley Fossum [Cartoons - Artists]
  • Good Magic [Clippings]
  • Dudley Fossum writes about "Classic Secrets of Magic" [Letters]
  • Eddie Joseph [Personalities]
  • Henry Morgan and Ralph Slater [Personalities]
  • How to wrap the rifle -- solution. [Puzzles]
• No. 284
  • Restoration (of destroyed signature) [Paper] / Essman
  • Up Your Sleeve [Cards - Preparation, Duplicates] / Ben Franklin
  • Kort Klink [Coins]
  • Up Your Sleeve [Handkerchief]
  • Carrousel [Rings]
• No. 285
  • Fadeaway! [Handkerchief] / Dai Vernon
  • Hoy! [Balls] / Garcia
  • Kirk's Quirk [Dice]
  • Gordon Beck - by Peter J. McElroy [Clippings]
• No. 286
  • Bones (miniature skulls) [Miscellaneous] / Essman
  • More Bones [Miscellaneous]
  • Migraine [Miscellaneous] / Walter Essman
  • "So Sweet As Magic" [Elliott in Print]
  • Pvt. M. Gitlin (1st half of letter) (from the loneliest place on earth) [Letters]
  • Caricature Cards [Miscellaneous]
  • Enny Meeny Miny (pellets) [Paper]
• No. 287
  • Rouge et Noir [Cards - Arranged] / Dr. Daley
  • In The Suit [Cards - Preparation, Duplicates, Mental Effects] / Vanderschmidt
  • Olla Podrida -- 3 effects: #1 -- two, treble lifts [Cards - Arranged]
  • Olla Podria - 3 Effects: #2 -- It Got Away! [Miscellaneous]
  • Olla Podria -- 3 effects: #3 -- False Economy (half thumb tip) [Paper]
  • "Classic Secrets of Magic" (British edition) [Elliott in Print]
  • Flash Gordon (television) [Elliott in Print]
• No. 288
  • A Twist Thru the Wrist [Rope and String] / John Boyko
  • Trio Plus One [Cards - Preparation, Duplicates] / Don Tanner
  • Kort's Color Change & Follow Up [Cards - Preparation, Duplicates]
  • The Missing Card [Cards - Arranged]
  • The Torn and Restored King [Cigarettes]
  • Broom Girls Together [Clippings]
  • Real Indian Pix Magic [Clippings]
  • Pvt. M. Gitlin (2nd half of letter) [Letters]
  • Ben's Cone [Liquids, Paper]
• No. 289
  • Honeycutter [Cards - Arranged] / Honeycutt
  • Nameology [Mental Effects] / John P. Hamilton
  • Thru [Coins] / Vanderschmidt
  • From Orville Meyer about "Honeycutter" [Letters]
  • From George Blake on "Olla Podrida" [Letters]
  • From "Coronet" to Ben Franklin [Letters]
• No. 290
  • Tarantula [Cards - Arranged] / M. S. Howarth
  • From the File of Art Lyle - 3 Effects: #1 - Bottom Bottom Deal [Cards - Impromptu]
  • From the File of Art Lyle - 3 effects: #3 -- Mid-air Cigarette Vanish [Cigarettes]
  • From the File of Art Lyle - 3 effects: #2 -- Papered Half [Coins]
  • From the File of Art Lyle - 3 effects [Letters]
  • Switch (for Rouge et Noir) [Cards - Arranged] / Max Katz
  • E. Brian McCarthy [Personalities]
• No. 291
  • Supreme Salt [Balls] / Richard L. Piser
  • No Rivet [Coins] / Vanderschmidt
  • Mental Opener [Cards - Arranged] / Don Tanner
  • Lapelled [Coins]
  • Mental Opener [Mental Effects]
  • Cute Cut [Cards - Arranged]
  • Flash Gordon by Bruce Elliott (t.v.) [Clippings]
  • An I For An I (Betcha) [Gags]
  • Harry Blackstone [Personalities]
• No. 292
  • The Die Is Cast (matches) [Dice, Matches, Mental Effects] / Bruce Elliott
  • Drop It! (paper tube) [Coins, Paper] / Walter Essman
  • Tricky Mentalist -- Without Cards [Mental Effects] / Gerald Kosky
  • Swing Cut - Slip Cut [Cards - Arranged]
  • Himber Troupe [Clippings]
  • Why Hyp Acts Are Dangerous [Clippings]
• No. 293
  • Water and Oil [Cards - Arranged] / Bill Simon
  • Let's Bury The Dead [Mental Effects] / Don Tanner
  • Footnotes on Rouge et Noir [Cards - Arranged] / Dr. Daley
  • The Travelers (lazy man's style) [Cards - Arranged]
  • Simplex [Cards - Preparation, Duplicates]
  • Danger For Magicians [Clippings]
  • Retractable Pen [Miscellaneous]
• No. 294
  • The Perfect Deck Switch [Cards - Arranged] / A. V. Walsh
  • Tube Teaser [Coins, Handkerchief, Liquids] / Essman
  • The Fifth Card (mental) [Cards - Preparation, Duplicates, Mental Effects] / Richard L. Piser
  • Interview with I.N.S., Bruce Elliott [Clippings]
  • Tricky Mentalist -- Without Cards (see page 1168) [Mental Effects]
• No. 295
  • Stacked (by W. Essmann) [Dice]
  • Switch-Back [Dice] / Walter Essman
  • Single Control [Dice] / Walter Essman
  • No Brainwave Brainwave (prediction) [Cards - Preparation, Duplicates]
  • Spiritual Shortage [Clippings]
  • Houdini Duck [Clippings]
  • Gambler Cheats---by 3-D [Clippings]
  • No Brainwave Brainwave (prediction) [Mental Effects]
  • Don Alan [Personalities]
• No. 296
  • Marlo's Deck [Cards - Preparation, Duplicates]
  • Howie's Reward [Coins, Handkerchief]
  • The Invisible Card in the Cigarette [Cards - Arranged, Cigarettes] / Don Tanner
  • Claudius Odin [Personalities]
  • Doctor's Die [Dice]
• No. 297
  • Brema plus Taylor [Rope and String]
  • Roger Montandon - to - Kirk Stiles [Dice]
  • Bi-Le-Temps [Cards - Preparation, Duplicates, Mental Effects]
• No. 298
  • The Deuce You Say! (Two person mental routine) [Cards - Preparation, Duplicates, Mental Effects] / John P. Hamilton
  • 1 and 50 [Coins] / H. P. Graham
  • 3 'n' 1 [Cards - Arranged] / Rusduck
  • Frank's Vanish [Cards - Preparation, Duplicates, Handkerchief]
• No. 299
  • Billets Deux [Handkerchief, Mental Effects, Paper] / Dr. Jaks
  • Foiled (aluminum fake blades) [Miscellaneous] / H. P. Graham
  • More Footnotes on Rouge et Noir [Cards - Arranged] / Wm. Zavis
  • Whirlaround (card scaling) [Cards - Impromptu]
  • All Gone [Cards - Preparation, Duplicates]
  • Just a Half [Coins, Paper]
• No. 300
  • #300 Front page - by Ravielli [Cartoons - Artists]
  • Lost in the Shuffle - Again [Cards - Arranged] / Stylesmith
  • Twice Clipped (prediction) [Cards - Arranged] / Bill Simon
  • Apport [Dice, Mental Effects, Paper] / Franklin V. Taylor
  • Crazy Mixed Up Cards! [Cards - Arranged] / F. V. Schoneck
• Index

1st edition 1952, PDF 204 pages.
word count: 152568 which is equivalent to 610 standard pages of text