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| birth_name = Paul Ludwig Alexander Potassy<br />
| birth_day = October 23<br />
| birth_year = 1923<br />
| birth_place = Austria<br />
| death_day = September 14<br />
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==Books==<br />
* Magic for All Ages (1975)<br />
* [[Magic Of Paul Potassy]]: "How to live like a millionaire with just six scarves, thirty razor blades, and a great haircut" by Uwe Schenk and Michael Sondermeyer (2005). Reviewed by [[Jamy Ian Swiss]] in [[Genii 2006 March]], vol. 69, no. 3, page 104.<br />
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'''Harry E. Cecil''' (1889 - 1964) billed himself as the "World's Worst Magician".<ref>Obit, Linking Ring, August 1964</ref><br />
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== Biography ==<br />
Cecil worked as a salesman for the American Tobacco Company. In 1917, he joined the U. S. Army and served overseas. While in France, he was assigned to a YMCA Unit to entertain the troops and did so throughout Europe. After the war he joined his sister in Detroit in opening a candy factory, where "Cecil's Chocolates" became one of the most popular candies in the Detroit area.<ref>Harry Cecil - - Pride of Detroit By Ed Wolff, Linking Ring, January 1951</ref><br />
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He was one of the early members of the [[IBM]] and served in many capacities. He was secretary, Vice President,, a member of the Executive Committee and for many years Chairman of the Sick and Welfare Committee.<br />
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In the first issue of [[Tops]] (January 1936), he wrote a column titled "Tops and Bottoms in Magic". For the Linking Ring he wrote columns including "Off the Cuff of Harry Cecil" and "Mussing Up Magic".<br />
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Cecil invented the Zipper Banana effect.<br />
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IBM Ring No. 22 was named in his honor.<br />
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:''Note: Not related, but was a good friend, to [[Coke Cecil]].<br />
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== Books ==<br />
* [[Magic that Perks]] (1937)<br />
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'''V. David Stewart''', was a West-coast based comedy magician known best for his act "Lord Chesterfield and his Violin". <br />
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== Biography ==<br />
Known as "Dave Steward" he was manager of the [[Hollywood Magic Shop]] in Los Angeles, under [[Burt Wheeler]] and [[Louis St. Pierre, Sr.]] from 1946 to 1952. He then moved on to managing the [[Merv Taylor]] Company, then his own shop in Huntington Park, CA.<br />
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=== Family ===<br />
*Dave was married to Dorothy Steward, who appeared onstage in many of his comedy skits. They had three children.<br />
*He died in 1970 from Lung cancer.<br />
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* Steward, V. David. "Three Little Kittens". ''M-U-M''. Vol 42 No 4 (Sep 1952). p. 93. Rhyming patter mimicking a nursery rhyme for use in a change bag<br />
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== Further Reading ==<br />
* Larsen, William, ed. "Lord Chesterfield". ''Genii''. Vol. 15 No 4 (Nov 1950). p. 115.<br />
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| birth_day = August 2,<br />
| birth_year = 1873<br />
| birth_place = Digby, Nova Scotia<br />
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'''A. A. A. Almon''' (1873-1965) was a Captain in a Fire Department, an amateur magician and early member of the [[IBM]] from Providence, Rhode Island. <ref>Broken Wand, Linking Ring, February 1965</ref><br />
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Nicknamed "Slippery Slick", he began performing magic for his church at the age of 14. Arriving at legal age he enlisted in the regular U. S. Army as a Supply Sergeant with the 109th Coast Artillery.<br />
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A life long friend of [[C. Foster Fenner]], he was one of the organizers of IBM Ring 44 of which he served as president.<ref>Meet Four A's - "Slippery Slick"<br />
By C. Foster Fenner, Linking Ring, Janury 1950</ref> <br />
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His promotional photo can be seen on the [[Conjuring Arts]] exhibit "The Many Faces of Magic" <ref>http://conjuringarts.org/exhibitions/the-many-faces-of-magic/</ref><br />
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'''Hercat''' was a journalist, actor and professional illusionist.<br />
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The great-grandson of Lord Melville, he wrote a number of popular books on magic and the allied arts.<br />
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After working as a journalist and actor, he became a professional magician around 1868 and performed with success in America before returning to England, where he billed himself as an American.<ref>Magic A Pictorial History History of Conjurers in the Theater by David Price (1985)</ref><br />
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Illusion he created included "She", a cremation illusion which was featured at the [[Egyptian Hall]] (1888) and the "Blue Room" (~1895).<br />
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[[Stanley Collins]] in a letter to his friend John Braun in 1957 wrote ''"Hercat I saw on several occasions and can tell you he was about as bad as a conjurer could be. His patter was banal; his tricks were always clumsily handled and his so-called ventriloquism was just a travesty. How ever he managed to gain the little reputation that he did achieve here is one of life’s mysteries."''<ref>49. HERCAT, THE AUTHOR, Complete Rich Cabinet of Magical Curiosities by Edwin A. Dawes (2005)</ref><br />
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* Card Tricks and Conjuring Up to Date (1896)<br />
* Latest Sleights, Illusions, Mind Reading and New Card Effects (1903)<br />
* Ventriloquist and Ventriloquial Dialogues (1905)<br />
* Conjuring Up to Date (1906) <br />
* Card Tricks With and Without Apparatus Up to Date (1906).<br />
* Chapeaugraphy, Shadowgraphy and Paper-Folding (1909)<br />
* [[More Conjuring]] (1912)<br />
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<div>'''Trevor Hall''' (1910-1991) was a surveyor and noted author of books on parapsychological subjects and magic.<br />
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Hall was also a magic book collector.<br />
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He was a major in the British army during World War II (1939-45), was senior partner of V. Walker and Son (chartered surveyors) (1945-80), and became director of the Huddersfield Building Society (1958-80).<br />
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He had been interested in conjuring as a boy following a visit to Maskelyne's Theatre of Magic at [[St. George's Hall]]<br />
in London. In the 1930s he became a member of the [[Yorkshire Magical Club]].<ref>Edwin A. Dawes. Stanley Collins. (2002): 156</ref><br />
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Hall was a student in psychical research at Trinity College, Cambridge (1954-56). His expert knowledge of conjuring helped him write about mediums, many of whom had been caught in fraud. In his book The Spiritualists (1964), Hall confirmed the belief of many that the phenomena of famous medium Florence Cook were fraudulent.<br />
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During the late 1960s an interest in Sherlock Holmes emerged, and he wrote several volumes, including Sherlock Holmes: Ten Literary Studies (1969), The Late Mr. Sherlock Holmes (1971), and Sherlock Holmes and His Creator (1974).<ref>http://www.answers.com/topic/trevor-henry-hall</ref> <br />
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* [[The Testament of Ralph W. Hull]] (1945)<br />
* [[Nothing Is Impossible]] (1946)<br />
* [[Reading Is Believing]] (1947)<br />
* A Bibliography of Books on Conjuring in English from 1580 to 1850 (1957)<br />
* The Spiritualists (1964)<br />
* [[Old Conjuring Books]] (1972)<br />
* [[The Card Magic of Edward G. Brown]] (1973)<br />
* [[Some printers & publishers of conjuring books and other ephemera, 1800-1850]] (with Percy H. Muir, 1976)<br />
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<div>'''Aldini''' (1917-1989), born Alex Weiner, managed and owned magic shops from the late 1950's though the 1970's. <br />
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He owned and operated his own shop and operated magic shops at Disneyland. During World War II, he traveled throughout Asia with the movie star, Melvyn Douglas, presenting magic shows for U.S. troops. <br />
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Aldini was a contributor to many magic magazines including a column in [[The Tops]].<br />
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He was a member of the [[Order of Merlin]], [[I.B.M.]] Ring 138 (Santa Monica) and Ring 21 (Hollywood), which he served as Vice President.<ref>November 1989 Linking Ring Magazine : Obituary</ref><ref>Obit [[Genii 1989 September]]</ref><br />
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== Contributions ==<br />
* Aldini Bowl Production variation on the Westgate Bowl Production<br />
* Clock-A-Rama<br />
* Acroback Cards<br />
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* [[Rough Stuff]] (with [[Joe Berg]]) (1956)<br />
* [[Roughingly Yours]] (1969)<br />
* New Concepts in Magic (1970)<br />
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