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--- mental:confabulation [2016/10/10 10:58] – Removed erroneous reference to My Kind of Magic. tylerwilson
+++ mental:confabulation [2016/10/11 17:57] – Correcting release date of "Confabulation". stephenminch
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 James returned to the idea in an article, "Two Fearless Feats" (the first trick of which was later retitled “The Ball of Fortune”), in the June 1940 issue of //[[http://askalexander.org/display/15792/Jinx+No+098|The Jinx]]//, No. 98, June 1940, p. 601, wherein the prediction was found inside a ball of wool.
-In 1948, Al Koran reinvented the use of a wallet as the container for his triple prediction, contributed to //[[http://askalexander.org/display/5320/Pentagram+Vol+03/3|Pentagram]]//, Vol. 3 No. 1, Oct. 1948, p. 1, under the title of "A Letter from Al Koran". For his performances, he developed a "Dream Holiday" presentation for the trick. By 1956 he was using a 'Dream Car" presentation.
+George Grimmond came up with “Triple Forecast” c. 1947. It was released in early 1951 by Harry Stanley’s Unique Magic Studio (see //[[http://askalexander.org/display/3010/Gen+Vol+06/345|The Gen]]//, Vol. 11 No. 6, Mar. 1951, p. 345). In Grimmond's trick, the prediction is found inside two nested envelopes that were hanging from a stand at the outset.
-George Grimmond’s “Triple Forecast” was released c. 1951, by Harry Stanley’s Unique Magic Studio (see //[[http://askalexander.org/display/3010/Gen+Vol+06/345|The Gen]]//, Vol. 11 No. 6, Mar. 1951, p. 345). In Grimmond's trick, the prediction is found inside two nested envelopes that were hanging from a stand at the outset.
+In 1948, Al Koran reinvented the use of a wallet as the container for his triple prediction, contributed to //[[http://askalexander.org/display/5320/Pentagram+Vol+03/3|Pentagram]]//, Vol. 3 No. 1, Oct. 1948, p. 1, under the title of "A Letter from Al Koran". For his performances, by 1950 he had developed a "Dream Holiday" presentation for the trick. By 1956 he was using a 'Dream Car" presentation.
-Specifically inspired by Grimmond's "Triple Forecast", Alan Shaxon developed “Confabulation” in the 1960s, and later marketed it with Ken Brooke in 1970.
+Specifically inspired by Grimmond's "Triple Forecast", Alan Shaxon developed “Confabulation” in the 1960s, and later marketed it through Ken Brooke in late 1969.
 (This history courtesy of Max Maven.)
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