Tops Volume 22 (1957)

93 pages - 3 Issues

1. The "Tops" - Volume 22, Number 1 - January 1957 - 32 pages
1. With the Editor - Percy Abbott
1. Contents
2. Reversed Six card Repeat (111) - Simplified Method - Roxy
3. Report On Chicago Magigals Assembly No. 9 - Sylvia Smith
3. re: The Great Levante
3. Dramatic Living and Dead Test
4. Thimbles, Thimbles - Again and Again - Roxy
4. re: Monk Watson
4. Ring-String - Ray Hutchinson
4. re: Chami Kkan
5. Amazing Card Miracles - Mahendra, The Mystic (F. B. Sterling)
   • Design for Wrist Watch Gimmic
   • Directions for Using the Wrist Watch Calculator for Prearranged Deck
   • Preface
   • The Arrangement
   • Mechanics of the Arrangement
   • To Openly Arrange a Strange Deck
   • False Shuffles
   • The "Perfect" False Shuffle
10. Abbott's Funny Rubber Hand
11. Feather Bouquets - Suggested Methods of Production - Abbott
11. Double Touch Card Prediction - Curry
12. Effects With Standard Spirit Slates - Abbott
12. Upon Opening You Find ... - Kobold
17. Six Card Rabbit Repeat - Jesse F. James
18. Abbott's Cups and Balls Routine
19. Silk and Plate - Abbott
20. For Vents Only - George McAthy
    • Dialogue - Billy Joe Boley
20. re: Danny O'Day
20. Liquid Utility Glass - Abbott
21. An Amazing "Four Ace" Effect
21. New York Magi-Chat - Tony Corrao
22. Merchandising Magic - Tommy Windsor
22. re: Neil Foster & Jeanne
23. Sid Lorraine's Chatter
    • reviews
      • You Too, Can Be A Hypnotist (originally Vaudeville Hypnotism) - David J. Lustig
      • Fifteen Star Card Effects - Lu Brent
      • Phantini's Mental Key
      • routine for the floating Cane - R. C. Buff
    • list of publications
      • Abracadabra
      • Genii, The Conjurors' Magazine
      • The Gen
      • Hugard's Magic Monthly
      • The Magic Wand
      • The Magical Digest
      • The Pentagram
      • IBIDEM
      • The New Phoenix
      • The Linking Ring
      • M-U-M
      • Tops
      • The Magnet
      • Hughes News
    • Club Papers and Dealer's Journals
      • Mental-Wise
      • Allen's Attic
      • Lines from Lawton
      • The Silent Messenger
      • Magic Makers
      • Houdini-Gram
      • The Barnstormer
      • Backstage with Magigals
      • Sorcery
      • The Oracle
      • The Missing Link
      • Top Hat Topics
25. Magic News from England - Wilford Hutchinson
26. It's Magic in California - Mariano Palhinha
27. Magic Outdoors - L. E. Roba Collins
27. Card Force

1. The "Tops" - Volume 22, Number 2 - February 1957 - 32 pages
1. With the Editor - Mel
1. Contents
2. Spectacular - Arthur Andrews
   • Additional Suggestions
3. A Flowery Fantasy - Roxy
4. One for the Record - Kobold
4. Patter for "Stung" - Monte Sweigard
5. Pocketed! - Card to Pocket - Roxy
   • Method One
   • Method Two
5. re: Jim Reneaux
6. A Comedy Opening - Marshall Murdaugh
6. Excel Second Sight Act
   • Chart
8. "All Fair" Card Trick - Frank Shepherd
8. Color Changing Thimble - Roxy
   • Alternative Sleight
9. Amazing Card Miracles - Mahendra, The Mystic (F. B. Sterling) - continued
   • Hugh Johnson False Shuffle
   • False Cuts
   • The Jordan False Cut
   • The Lightning Card Counter
   • Table of Short Cuts
   • Patter for Counting Cards
12. Torn Card Trick
17. Sid Lorraine's Chatter
    • Questions and Answers - mixed in with the reviews
      • Backstage with Magigals, September to December
      • 2-Way Plastic Pitcher - Richard Durham
      • Abbott's Bunny Hat
      • Abracadabra, Nos. 551-567
      • comments re: Who's Who in Magic
      • Garcia's Manipulative Series - G & G Enterprises (Sol Goodnoff & Frank Garcia)
        • Garcia's Manipulative Secrets
        • Million Dollar Slow Motion Card Productions
        • Challenge Card Production
      • Garcia's Close-Up Gem - G & G Enterprises
      • Double or Nothing - G & G Enterprises
      • Houdini-Gram
      • The Magnet
      • The Magic Wand, June
      • George Jenness - book list
      • Axel Rasmussen - book list
      • Top Hat Topics
      • Teral Garrett - book list
      • Pentagram
20. The Awards for 1956 Tricks
20. re: 18th anniversary of the Circulo Magico Argentino
21. Merchandising Magic - Tommy Windsor
22. New York Magi Chat - Tony Corrao
22. About Tops Mailing
22. Magic Outdoors - L. E. Roba Collins
23. Magic Notes from England - Wilford Hutchinson
23. re: W. S. Berger
24. Not Magic - But Lettering - Demon Rembrandt
25. Magic in California - Mariano Palhinha
27. Birds Not Bird-Brained - Kodell

1. The "Tops" - Volume 22, Number 3 - March 1957 - 28 pages
1. With the Editor - Mel
1. Contents
2. Disintegration - A 3-D Card Effect - Roxy
2. Incomparable - Arthur J. Andrews
4. Routined Ball Sleights - Roxy
5. Amazing Card Miracles - Mahendra, The Mystic (F. B. Sterling) - continued
   • The Human Scales
   • The Strange Powers of the Joker
   • Patter Routine Number Two
   • Another Presentation
   • The Phantom Card Game
8. Publicity for Magicians - Robert E. Berhard
   • Foreword - Ormond McGill
   • Preface
   • What Is Publicity?
15. Registrations Coming In - re: Get-Together
16. Sid Lorraine's Chatter
    • Questions and Answers - mixed in with the reviews
      • The Book of Dai Vernon - Lewis Ganson
      • Rotating Pencil - Bernard Blake
      • Guillo Cards - Irv Weiner
      • Flash-Gig-O-Silk - Senor Torino
      • Barnstormer
      • The Gimmick
      • Lines from Lawton No. 21
      • The Missing Link
      • Ken Allen - lists and Attics(?)
      • The DeVoe Magic Den - memo/list
      • Magic Makers
      • Mental-Wise
      • Top Secrets of Magic - J. G. Thompson, Jr.
      • Hugard's Magic Monthly
      • Hughes News
      • IBIDEM, No. 8
      • The Gen
18. New York Magi-Chat - Tony Corrao
18. re: George Gamaway
19. For Vents Only - George McAthy
20. Merchandising Magic - Tommy Windsor
20. Plans Super TV Magic Show - Milbourne Christopher
20. Wonderfully Effective Trick - re: Invisible Blowing and Dyeing Silks & Ray Beffel
21. Magic Outdoors - L. E. Roba Collins
21. Chicago Magigals Install - Esther Krasny
21. [Elmer] Eckham Suffers Fire Loss
22. Andrell Henry Now Heads IGP - Augusta Gottlieb - re: International Guild of Prestidigitators
22. Magic in California - Mariano Palhinha
22. Magic News from England - Wilford Hutchinson
23. Bill Schreiber Dies
23. Carl [Waring] Jones Dies

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