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 The updated handling of using the right second finger and turning over the deck around it is credited by Dr. Jacob Daley to Al Baker. See //[[http://askalexander.org/display/5308/Jacob+Daley+s+Notebooks/176|Jacob Daley's Notebooks]]//, n.d. (c. 1974), n.p. (Item 633). Edward Victor published much the same idea in "A New 'Glide'", //[[http://askalexander.org/display/24748/The+Magic+of+The+Hands/20|Magic of the Hands]]//, 1937, p. 6, where he pushed back the lower card with the right first and second fingers, while using the left little finger as a stop on the inner end of the deck. The updated handling of using the right second finger and turning over the deck around it is credited by Dr. Jacob Daley to Al Baker. See //[[http://askalexander.org/display/5308/Jacob+Daley+s+Notebooks/176|Jacob Daley's Notebooks]]//, n.d. (c. 1974), n.p. (Item 633). Edward Victor published much the same idea in "A New 'Glide'", //[[http://askalexander.org/display/24748/The+Magic+of+The+Hands/20|Magic of the Hands]]//, 1937, p. 6, where he pushed back the lower card with the right first and second fingers, while using the left little finger as a stop on the inner end of the deck.
  
-Victor introduced another new idea, which is to push double card forward on the face of the deckthen turn the deck face down and draw the lower card of the double flush as the right hand pulls the upper card away. This is essentially a Downs Change (see T. Nelson Downs's //[[http://askalexander.org/display/40408/The+art+of+magic/75|The Art of Magic]]//, 1909, p. 73) done from the front of the deck, rather than the side. Two years later, in //[[http://askalexander.org/display/38839/The+Magic+Wand/146|The Magic Wand]]//, Vol. 28 No. 183, Oct./Nov. 1939, p. 116, Dr. L. Rothbart (of Budapest) also describes this out-jogged Glide as "The Improved Glide" and uses the left third finger to draw the lower card flush, even though he mentions that "Some prefer to push back the bottom card with the right second finger and grasp the second card with the thumb and first finger."+Bill Kalush has discovered a fascinating early variant of the Glide in //Kurtzweilige neu-erfundene Kahrten-Kunste / jetzo zum dritten Mahl vermehret und verbessert herauss gegeben//1678. The trick in which it appears is this: 
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 +"The Third Game 
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 +"To have a card selected, and after it has been looked at, to hide it among the others after which three cards are shown among which the named card is not to be found, but when they are looked at again, it is found among them, is almost miraculous to see. 
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 +"You must also begin this one [as] with the first game, and when you have found the card, you must place it in front of all the others and indeed in such a way that it juts out a little in frontafter which you must place another card in front of it, square with the other. Following this you can show him the card which is in front of the first one and ask if this is the card that he had chosen and when he says no, let the card sink, and quickly pull out his card, which is the other one of the two that are sticking up and put it down on the table: after this replace the card subtly by another and let him again see [this] one, asking whether perhaps this is it? He will, however, say noThen put this one also on the table next to the previous one and in a similar way show him then another one, which you also put down on the table with the other ones. Here you can show something strange and when the opportunity arises lay a bet that his card is among the three lying on the table, which it will be, and many will be astounded by this." 
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 +This is in essence the Downs Change (see T. Nelson Downs's //[[http://askalexander.org/display/40408/The+art+of+magic/75|The Art of Magic]]//, 1909, p. 73)done from the front of the deck, rather than the side. In 1937, Edward Victor reinvented this sleight as well, in the form of his "New Glide" cited above. Two years later, in //[[http://askalexander.org/display/38839/The+Magic+Wand/146|The Magic Wand]]//, Vol. 28 No. 183, Oct./Nov. 1939, p. 116, Dr. L. Rothbart (of Budapest) also described the 1678, out-jogged form of the Glide as "The Improved Glide". Rothbart used the left third finger to draw the lower card flush, although he mentions that "Some prefer to push back the bottom card with the right second finger and grasp the second card with the thumb and first finger."
  
 Lewis Ganson published a Glide in March 1951, in which the right forefinger taps the face of the deck, then the Glide is executed as the deck is turned face down around this finger. The left little finger draws back the bottom card. See //[[http://askalexander.org/display/20327/Abracadabra+Vol+11/172|Abracadabra]]//, Vol. 11 No. 269, Mar. 1951, p. 138; reprinted in //[[http://askalexander.org/display/18841/Routined+Manipulation/40|Routined Manipulation, Vol. 2]]//, 1952, p. 38. Ganson would later publish Vernon's similar handling in //[[http://askalexander.org/display/17405/Dai+Vernon+s+More+Inner+Secrets+of+Card+Magic/84|More Inner Secrets of Card Magic]]//, 1960, p. 82. The Baker, Victor, and Rothbart entries above indicate that this approach had been around for a couple of decades. Lewis Ganson published a Glide in March 1951, in which the right forefinger taps the face of the deck, then the Glide is executed as the deck is turned face down around this finger. The left little finger draws back the bottom card. See //[[http://askalexander.org/display/20327/Abracadabra+Vol+11/172|Abracadabra]]//, Vol. 11 No. 269, Mar. 1951, p. 138; reprinted in //[[http://askalexander.org/display/18841/Routined+Manipulation/40|Routined Manipulation, Vol. 2]]//, 1952, p. 38. Ganson would later publish Vernon's similar handling in //[[http://askalexander.org/display/17405/Dai+Vernon+s+More+Inner+Secrets+of+Card+Magic/84|More Inner Secrets of Card Magic]]//, 1960, p. 82. The Baker, Victor, and Rothbart entries above indicate that this approach had been around for a couple of decades.