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Sham Smasher

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Sham Smasher
ShamSmasher.jpg
EditorsC. A. George Newmann
FrequencyIrregular
First issueSummer 1939
CountryU.S.A.
Alfredson/Daily#6235
Total issues5

Sham Smasher was an irregulary mimeographed private publication by C. A. George Newmann out of Kenyon, Minnesota.

Newmann states he published 5 issue [1], but there have only been 3 known issues found.

The first numbered issue shows a pilgrim holding a lantern and the fifth shows the "spotlight of truth."[2]

Newmann, in a letter to the Linking Ring in 1963, stated "A couple of years ago I tried to stir up the professionals against the many evils that beset the profession, by publishing and circulating a little mimeographed sheet which I called "The ShamSmasher," but outside of S. S. Henry, and a few other magicians who have courage to admit "something ought to be done about it" and who subscribed to my views, most of them pleaded that "they were too busy to join with their fellow professionals in such a campaign."[3]


Alfredson stated, "they were of embarrassingly little merit…consisting mainly of diatribes against individuals…, certain magic dealers, and general anti-Semitic harangue.

References

  1. Newmann The Pioneer Mentalist by James B. Alfredson (1990)
  2. A Bibliography of Conjuring Periodicals in English: 1791 - 1983 by James B. Alfredson,George L. Daily (1986)
  3. Linking Ring, July 1963, page 19