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* ... [[Nouvelle Magie Blanche Dévoilée]] (New White Magic Explained) by J. N. Ponsin was the first book written in French that dealt exclusively with magic...
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* ... [[Mac McDonald]](1907-c.1982), of [[McDonald's Aces]] fame, was a Diamond Broker before he became a magician...
* ... [[Nouvelle Magie Blanche Dévoilée]] was used by [[Prof. Hoffmann]] to write [[Modern Magic]]. A translation of parts not used by Hoffmann was published by [[S.H. Sharpe]] as [[Ponsin On Conjuring]]...
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* ... [[Jack Merlin]] (c.1885-1943) was buried at Marion National Cemetery in Marion, Indiana...
* ... [[Albert P. Smith]], The Mysterious Smith, publicity stunt was a coffin escape ...
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* ... [[Houdini]] had a nephew, [[Harry Houdini Hinson]], who was an amateur magician that died at the age of 21...
* ... [[MIKO]] (also known as the Three and a Half of Clubs trick) by [[Harold Sterling]] was named in honor of [[Milt Kort]]...  
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* ... [[Houdini]] wrote under the name "N. Osey" for both [[Mahatma]] and his own [[Conjurers' Monthly Magazine]]....
* ... [[The Magic Show]] starring [[Doug Henning]] had to be written around Doug's inability to sing...
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* ... American author John Ball (who wrote the mystery novel "In the Heat of the Night" involving the African-American police detective Virgil Tibbs in 1965) performed as a semi-professional magician in college as [[Jacques_Morintell]]...
* ... [[Edouard-Joseph Raynaly]] was one of the first magicians on film...
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* ... Joe Sternbach brought the [[New York Roundtable]] to the west coast by starting the [[Los Angeles Roundtable]] in 1946...
* ... [[W.D. LeRoy]] was responsible for recruiting one of every six memberships of [[SAM]] during the first few years...
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* ... [[Sidney H. Radner]] once owned one of the world's largest collections of [[Harry Houdini]] artifacts ...
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* ... [[Washington Irving Bishop]] was the originator of the [[Blindfold Drive]] in 1885 using a horse and carriage...
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''See also  [[Special:Recentchanges|Recent changes]]''.
*...[[Charles T. Aldrich]], a popular Quick Change performer in vaudeville, was father of Gale Gordon, the actor that played Lucille Ball's boss on TV...  
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* ... [[Max Katz]] was [[Ricky Jay]]'s grandfather ....
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* ... between 1906 and 1915 [[Theodore DeLand]] marketed almost 100 tricks using gimmicked cards and decks...
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