Dai Vernon & Richard Turner
Okay, so, story time.
You need to know two pieces in this story. The first to know is a guy called Dai Vernon. Dai Vernon was one of the Old Great Men of magic. The dude looked like Colonel Sanders or Mark Twain if their particular fields of interest was sleight of hand magic. A number of modern magicians now are people who were trained by or who were given the opportunity to learn at the tables of experts who were themeslves maybe lucky to have been taught by Dai Vernon.
Hm, okay, maybe not quite conveying it.
Dai Vernon was contemporary to, and famously fooled Houdini.
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