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Tommy Windsor

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Tommy Windsor

Cover Genii 1977 March
BornThomas Isaac Lowry
July 5, 1906
Marietta, Ohio
DiedSeptember 2, 1978 (age 72)
Marietta, Ohio
CategoriesBooks by Tommy Windsor

Tommy Windsor (1906-1978) was a professional vaudeville and club magician beginning in 1924.[1]

Biography

He invented the Dye Box and edited the DOPE Sheet.

Books

  • Magician's Merchandising Manual (1938)
  • Tommy Windsor Die Box Book (1947)
  • The Street Faker Act (1947)
  • Sixty-Four Ways to Make Magic Pay (1952)
  • The Presto Press Book (1956)
  • Tommy Windsor's Egg Bag Routine (1970)
  • The Real Svengali Pitch (1971)
  • The Balloon Pitch (1971)
  • Safety Chalk Talks by Tom McCormick (1971)
  • Supermarket Magic (1973)
  • Kid Show (1979)

References

  1. Who's Who in Magic, The Sphinx, Vol. 30, No. 9, November 1931, Who’s Who in Magic, page 400
  • The Linking Ring, Vol. 24, No. 5, July 1944, Tommy Windsor, page 49
  • The Conjurors' Magazine, Vol. 3, No. 2, April 1947, Speaking of Pictures, Dorothy Jeanne Windsor, page 6, Tommy Windsor, page 7
  • Cover, The Linking Ring, Vol. 27, No. 2, April 1947, The Winsors - Tommy & Jeanne, by "Doc" Dougherty, page 19
  • Cover Genii 1949 May
  • Cover Genii 1953 November
  • Cover M-U-M, Vol. 61, No. 8, January 1972, TOMMY WINDSOR, magician-of-the-month, by John Zweers, page 7
  • Cover The Linking Ring, Vol. 52, No. 2, February 1972, OUR COVER, Tommy Windsor, by Chester W. Gault, page 47
  • Cover Genii Magazine, Vol. 41, No. 3, March 1977, Tommy Windsor The Wizard of Marietta, by Lee Jacobs, page 142
  • Goodliffe's Abracadabra, Vol. 66, No. 1704, September 1978, Tommy Windsor, page 338
  • Obit Genii 1978 October
  • The Linking Ring, Vol. 58, No. 11, November 1978, Tommy Windsor Succumbs, by Lee Jacobs, page 102
  • M-U-M, Vol. 68, No. 7, November 1978, BROKEN WANDS, Tommy Windsor, page 41
  • The New Tops, Vol. 18, No. 11, November 1978, Final Curtain, Tommy Windsor, page 22
  • The Linking Ring, Vol. 91, No. 11, November 2011, PICTURES FROM THE PAST, page 24, Answer to Pictures from the Past, page 107