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 ====== Hofzinser/MacDonald Ace Assembly ======
-Johann Hofzinser performed a strikingly similar plot to The MacDonald Ace Assembly called "A Power of Faith," published in Ottokar Fischer's //Kartenkünste//, 1910, p. 69 of the Sharpe translation. It used double-faced cards, much like the modern variants.
+In the mid-nineteenth century, Johann Hofzinser performed a strikingly similar plot to The MacDonald Ace Assembly as one phase of a larger routine called "A Power of Faith," published in Ottokar Fischer's //[[http://askalexander.org/display/29356/J+N+Hofzinser+s+Card+Conjuring/73|Kartenkünste]]//, 1910, p. 69 of the Sharpe translation. It used double-faced cards, much like the modern variants. The first trick of its kind to be published was Kaufmann's "Prepared Four Ace Trick" in //[[http://askalexander.org/display/16219/Mahatma+Vol+7+No+11/3|Mahatma]]//, Vol. 7 No. 11, May 1904, p. 125, six years before Hofzinser's material was released.
-The plot's name comes from Mac MacDonald's "MacDonald's $100 Routine" in Lewis Ganson's //Dai Vernon's More Inner Secrets of Card Magic//, 1960, p. 26. But MacDonald's routine wasn't the first. Orville Meyer predated MacDonald by fifteen years with his "Greatest Four Ace Trick" in J.G. Thompson's //My Best//, 1945, p. 147.
+The plot's name comes from Mac MacDonald's "McDonald's $100 Routine" in Lewis Ganson's //[[http://askalexander.org/display/17405/Dai+Vernon+s+More+Inner+Secrets+of+Card+Magic/28|Dai Vernon's More Inner Secrets of Card Magic]]//, 1960, p. 26.
-The first version of this trick in which each Ace was vanished from its packet in a different manner was by Ken Krenzel in //[[http://askalexander.org/display/15091/M+U+M/108|M-U-M]]//, Vol. 51 No. 3, Aug. 1962, p. 108, under the title "Those Extra Touches."
+The first version of this trick in which each Ace was vanished from its packet in a different manner was by Ken Krenzel in //[[http://askalexander.org/display/15091/M+U+M/108|M-U-M]]//, Vol. 51 No. 3, Aug. 1962, p. 108, under the title "Those Extra Touches".
 Larry Jennings was the first to add a "backfire" coda, in "MacJennings Aces" from //[[http://askalexander.org/display/37219/Genii/39|Genii]]//, Vol. 62 No. 1, Jan. 1999, p. 39.
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