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When Steinmeyer writes about the theater a century ago, he speaks as one who's met modern versions of the characters, who's even reconstructed their tricks onstage. So when, for example, he describes David Devant's Mascot Moth (which Steinmeyer reproduced in Doug Henning's Merlin),
Teller Jim Steinmeyer • Hiding the Elephant: How Magicians Invented the Impossible and Learned to Disappear
“the king of gamblers,” Nick the Greek.
Derek DelGaudio • AMORALMAN: A True Story and Other Lies
The Murder of Professor Schlick: The Rise and Fall of the Vienna Circle
Paul Gertner, a legendary sleight-of-hand artist in his fifties, held court in the close-up room and Jeremy insisted that we see him.
Ian Frisch • Magic Is Dead: My Journey into the World's Most Secretive Society of Magicians
Nobody’s ever heard of him because he handled private money and he didn’t get written up in books or get quoted in the newspapers, but he was a really phenomenal investor. The story was that one of the Gottesman family members came into his office one day and said, “Arthur, what’s the secret to your success?” Ross said, “Tennis shoes. Now get out o
... See moreAllen C. Benello • Concentrated Investing: Strategies of the World's Greatest Concentrated Value Investors
Legendary POVs have a simple architecture.