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... Author Clayton Rawson organized an informal exclusive magic organization in New York City called the Witchdoctors Club...
... George Casaubon was the pen name of Monsignor Vincent Foy, a Roman Catholic priest and magic collector.
... Professor Henderson (Milton H. Grannat) was one of the crew on the Monitor, during the Civil War. After retiring from the Federal Navy at the close of the Civil War, he became a magician.
... Mac McDonald(1907-c.1982), of McDonald's Aces fame, was a diamond broker before he became a magician...
... Jack Merlin (c.1885-1943) was buried at Marion National Cemetery in Marion, Indiana...
... Houdini had a nephew, Harry Houdini Hinson, who was an amateur magician that died at the age of 21...
... Houdini wrote under the name "N. Osey" for both Mahatma and his own Conjurers' Monthly Magazine....
... 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...

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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...
+* ... Author [[Clayton Rawson]] organized an informal exclusive magic organization in New York City called the [[Witchdoctors Club]]...
-* ... [[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]]...
+* ... George Casaubon was the pen name of [[Monsignor Vincent Foy]], a  Roman Catholic priest and magic collector.
-* ... [[Albert P. Smith]], The Mysterious Smith, publicity stunt was a coffin escape ...
+* ... [[Professor Henderson]] (Milton H. Grannat) was one of the crew on the Monitor, during the [[Civil War]]. After retiring from the Federal Navy at the close of the Civil War, he became a magician.
-* ... [[MIKO]] (also known as the Three and a Half of Clubs trick) by [[Harold Sterling]] was named in honor of [[Milt Kort]]...
+* ... [[Mac McDonald]](1907-c.1982), of [[McDonald's Aces]] fame, was a diamond broker before he became a magician...
-* ... [[The Magic Show]] starring [[Doug Henning]] had to be written around Doug's inability to sing...
+* ... [[Jack Merlin]] (c.1885-1943) was buried at Marion National Cemetery in Marion, Indiana...
-* ... [[Edouard-Joseph Raynaly]] was one of the first magicians on film...
+* ... [[Houdini]] had a nephew, [[Harry Houdini Hinson]], who was an amateur magician that died at the age of 21...
-* ... [[W.D. LeRoy]] was responsible for recruiting one of every six memberships of [[SAM]] during the first few years...
+* ... [[Houdini]] wrote under the name "N. Osey" for both [[Mahatma]] and his own [[Conjurers' Monthly Magazine]]....
-* ... [[Sidney H. Radner]] once owned one of the world's largest collections of [[Harry Houdini]] artifacts ...
+* ... 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]]...
-* ... [[Washington Irving Bishop]] was the originator of the [[Blindfold Drive]] in 1885 using a horse and carriage...
-*...[[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...
-* ... [[Max Katz]] was [[Ricky Jay]]'s grandfather ....
+''See also  [[Special:Recentchanges|Recent changes]]''.
-* ... between 1906 and 1915 [[Theodore DeLand]] marketed almost 100 tricks using gimmicked cards and decks...

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