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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 // | 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 // | ||
- | Victor introduced another new idea, which is to push a double | + | Bill Kalush has discovered a fascinating early variant of the Glide in // |
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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 front, after 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 | ||
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+ | This is in essence the Downs Change (see T. Nelson Downs' | ||
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 // | 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 // | ||
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