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Kort
Author	Stephen Minch
Publisher	Hermetic Press
Illustrator	Sandy Kort
Publication Date	1999
Language	English
Pages	363
Subject	Milton Kort

KORT: The Magic of Milton Kort was a book published in 1999 and written by Stephen Minch. It is about Milt Kort's close-up magic with cards, coins, and other small objects, such as dice, paper cups and balls, and even razor blades. The book also features many interesting anecdotes and bits of historical information from Kort's years as a pharmacist operating Kort's Drugs in Detroit, which was a hotspot for big-name magicians from all over the world. Kort was reviewed in Genii in December 1999.

Contents

• Page vii Introduction (Ron Bauer)
• Page x Thoughts on Milt Kort's Eightieth Birthday (John Luka)

Chapter 1: Kort Kards

• Page 3 Kort's Cardinal Rules of Magic
• Page 5 Kort's Center Steal
• Page 9 How It All Began
• Page 11 Diminishing Monte
• Page 17 Routines
• Page 19 Heir to the Throne
• Page 29 Magic as a Hobby
• Page 31 Quintimodo
• Page 41 Foiling the Speech Teacher
• Page 43 Vernon's Variant Variant
• Page 47 My Short Career as Master of the Locks
• Page 49 The Off-color Twenty-one-card Trick
• Page 53 Meeting with the President
• Page 55 Second Banana
• Page 63 The Quinine Caper
• Page 65 Kort's Color-changing Deck +
• Page 71 My Sensational Poison Swallowing Act
• Page 73 Security Express
• Page 77 My Shortest Professional Engagement
• Page 79 Matcho

• Page 85 Citizen Kort
• Page 87 The Courtright Connection
• Page 93 What Would You Do?
• Page 95 That Darned Ace
• Page 101 Maintaining a Reputation
• Page 103 Card to Shoes
• Page 107 More Kort Luck in the Service
• Page 109 Travelers Without Palms
• Page 113 Putting on the Gloves
• Page 115 Svengali of the Phone Lines

Chapter 2: Kort's Koins

• Page 121 To Paraphrase Sam Spade
• Page 123 Kort's Copper and Silver Transposition (The Director's Cut)
• Page 129 The Sterling Shelf Force
• Page 131 51¢ Metamorphosis
• Page 135 A Free Ring with Every Purchase
• Page 137 Korting Rylander's Silver and Copper
• Page 145 How I Lost the Break
• Page 147 The Invisible Toss
• Page 149 The Night Bobo Missed
• Page 151 Going, Going, Going, gnioG, Gone
• Page 157 What Sleeve?
• Page 159 First Out of the Gate
• Page 163 A Daley Occurrence
• Page 165 Cuckoo's Coin
• Page 169 A Great Magician Arrives at Sterling's
• Page 171 Delayed Arrival
• Page 175 The Other Leipzig
• Page 179 The Downs Palm Switch
• Page 181 My Lesson from Paul Rosini
• Page 183 The Nomad Coins
• Page 189 Private Advice from Senor Mardo
• Page 191 The Rumsey Vanish
• Page 195 Zinc's Mystery Box
• Page 197 Nomads in the Dunes
• Page 201 We Developed This Policy During My Days at Sterling's
• Page 203 Two From Four Equals...?
• Page 207 The Plum
• Page 209 The Okorto Box Routine
• Page 229 Sometimes Luck isn't Enough
• Page 231 CoBoxGo
• Page 235 Meeting Marlo
• Page 237 CoBoxGo 2
• Page 241 A Central Compliment
• Page 243 The Invisible Okito Box

Chapter 3: Kort's Assorted

• Page 251 Milt's Major Principle of Magic
• Page 253 Kort's Dice Switch
• Page 257 An Invitation Declined
• Page 259 Cups & Dice
• Page 267 The Ammonia Scam
• Page 269 Traveling by Boxcar
• Page 271 Kort's Drugs
• Page 273 No Caboose
• Page 275 Magic: A Practical Application
• Page 277 Changing Trains
• Page 279 Kortchanged
• Page 281 Quick-change Crap
• Page 283 The Cash Register Caper
• Page 285 Milt's Back-palm Gag
• Page 287 My Bright Idea
• Page 289 Wanna Try?
• Page 297 The Literature
• Page 299 Kortospheres
• Page 313 Cardini's Wish
• Page 315 Pen-etration
• Page 323 Bob Lund's Shameful Exposé
• Page 325 Contrary Currency
• Page 333 My Shameful Exposé
• Page 335 Precognitive Cups & Balls
• Page 339 Potter's Bar
• Page 341 The Egg and mIlt
• Page 355 The Tel-twelve Mystics
• Page 357 Umgowa!
• Page 363 Aboard the Schooner