Cushing Strout

Cushing Strout
Born	Sewall Cushing Strout Jr. April 4, 1923 Portland, ME
Died	November 21, 2013 (age 90) Ithaca, NY
Categories	Books by Cushing Strout

Professor Cushing Strout (1923-2013) has a Ph.D. from Harvard University in American Studies and had an endowed chair in that field at Cornell University until 1989 when he retired.

Biography

He became interested in magic as a boy when he saw Harry Blackstone Sr.. After an apprenticeship to Ernest A. Carter, he was for a time in his youth a semi-professional at clubs, hotels, occasionally for the USO during WWII A devotee of the card magic of Dai Vernon and Stewart James. Strout later focused on the narrative trick and has said, "In some cases the plots in this book are based on famous stories, such as those by Conan Doyle and Lewis Carroll, which have seldom been used by magicians"

In 2005, his first book of card magic was released by the Toronto publishing house, I Saw That!, a collection of tricks called On the Other Side of the Mirror.

Books

• On the Other Side of the Mirror (published by I Saw That! in 2005)

Non magic works

• The Pragmatic Revolt in American History: Carl Becker and Charles Beard (1959)
• The American Image of the Old World (1963)
• Hawthorne in England: Selections from "Our Old Home" and "The English Note-Books" (1965)
• Conscience, Science & Security: The Case Of Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer (1965) editor
• Spirit of American Government by J. Allen Smith (1965) editor
• Intellectual History in America (1968) editor, two volumes, Contemporary Essays on Puritanism, the Enlightenment & Romanticism, and From Darwin to Niebuhr
• Divided We Stand: Reflections on the Crisis at Cornell (1970) editor with David I. Grossvogel
• The New Heavens and New Earth: Political Religion in America (1973)
• The Veracious Imagination: Essays on American History, Literature and Biography (1981)
• Making American Tradition: Visions & Revisions from Ben Franklin to Alice Walker (1990)

References

• The Linking Ring, Vol. 23, No. 9, November 1943, Hocus Pocus Parade, by Bob Weill & Eddie Clever - Double or Nothing, by Pvt. Sewall C. Strout, Jr., page 43
• THE Magic Circular, Vol. 100, No. 1077, April 2006, In Review "On the Other Side of the Mirror", page 140
• http://www.arts.cornell.edu/english/people/?id=108
• http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/theithacajournal/obituary.aspx?pid=168375479

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Cushing Strout (* 4. April 1923 in Portland, MEM; † 21. November 2013 in Ithaca, NY) war ein US-amerikanischer Gelehrter, der an der Harvard Universität im Bereich „Amerikanistik“ promoviert hatte und auch einen Lehrstuhl darin bis zu seiner Pensionierung unterhielt. Nebenher interessierte er sich für die Zauberkunst.

Leben

Als kleiner Junge sah Cushing Strout den Zauberkünstler Harry Blackstone, Sr., der ihn sehr beeindruckte. Später lernte Strout bei dem Zauberkünstler Ernest A. Carter und trat in seiner Jugend als Teilzeiberufszauberküstler in Clubs, Hotels und ab und zu auch für die USO während des Zweiten Weltkrieges auf.

Kartenzauberkunst gehörte mit zu seinen bevorzugten Bereichen. Hier verfolgte er besonders die Künstler Dai Vernon und Stewart James. Später gefiel im die erzählende Zauberkunst. Anregungen fand er hierzu bei bei den Erzählungen von Conan Doyle und Lewis Carroll.

Der Verlag Toronto Publishing House (Ariel Frailich) brachte 2005 das erste Buch von Strout über Kartenzauberkunst unter dem Titel On the Other Side of the Mirror heraus.

Veröffentlichung

• On the Other Side of the Mirror, I Saw That!, 2005)

Quellen

• The Linking Ring Vol. 23, Nr. 9, November 1943, Hocus Pocus Parade, Seite 43
• The Magic Circular, Vol. 100, Nr. 1077, April 2006, Seite 140

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