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Billy Mccomb - The Travelling Card

Columnist: Billy McComb The Travelling Card A small scrap of a torn press cutting brought back a whole host of memories. It simply said that Private Eugene Delbert Hill, aged 35, had received a court martial sentence of two years hard labour for deserting from the U.S. Army in 1945. I remember Donna Delbert, as he was called. He came into Hamley’s and Max Andrews introduced us. Later we met when Delbert was worki...
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Billy Mccomb - The Ultimate Identification

Columnist: Billy McComb As far as any lay audience is concerned, a magician is a man who takes a rabbit from a hat … the ultimate identification. Now, how would you like to walk onto a stage with a newspaper in your hand and a top hat on your head, go straight to a thin-topped table, show the hat empty, open the newspaper and place it over the hat … remove it and a rabbit pops its head over the brim. And, having...
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Billy Mccomb - William Reminisces

Columnist: Billy McComb William Reminisces It was somebody like Goldin who was greatly shaken during a sally forth into the audience to have an amateur magician attract his attention. He had, up his coat, the amateur said, a large duck. He thought it would be nice for Goldin to abstract the duck and the audience would be very impressed. Goldin thought he was a nut and by-passed him. But the man was insistent. Thi...
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Fred Becker - Cest Magique

Columnist: Fred Becker Cíest Magique Only twice in my cruise ship career have I had the pleasure of watching another magician(s) on the ship I was working. The first was the ìMagic Theme Cruisesî on NCL. Our own Ron Wilson produced these weeks of magical entertainment at sea. There were about twenty professional magicians providing the entertainment, both stage and close-up. Ron gathered a dream-team cast, in...
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Fred Becker - Cruise Ship Do's And Don'ts

Columnist: Fred Becker When Mark Stevens was getting the latest SME catalog together he asked me if I could think of the “top five doís and doníts” for working on cruise ships. His idea was to have a sidebar for one of the articles in the “catazine” (my word). For a sidebar in an article it is important to keep the items brief and without lengthy explanation. However, for people interested in cruise ship...
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