Heldman, Ernie: Cards That Mean
Business ©1976 Ernie Heldman, Creative Productions & Displays, LA Softcover, saddle-stitched, 5.5x8.5", 78 pages ©1981 Lee Jacobs, Pomeroy Softcover, saddle-stitched, 8.5x11", 52 pages |
Lee Jacobs Edition Image courtesy eBay seller JayAndLefty |
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Comments: illustrated with diagrams and some black and
white photos. How to hand out your business cards magically.
Contents (From 1981 edition book, descriptions added June
2022):
3 Introduction (Jon Racherbaumer)
4 Foreword (Ernie Heldman)
5 From the Printer's Angle: having your business cards printed
with magic in mind
8 Magical Printing
8 Solo Card: showing both sides blank and then printed
9 Wild Card: idea to use a Wild Card routine with business card,
workings not detailed
9 Prints Charming: six blanks shown then four become printed
10 Color Changes
10 On-Again Off-Again Cards (Larry Austin): four blank business
cards become printed on both sides
11 Jaks' Blacks: based on Dr. Jaks The Four Blacks, chosen card
becomes printed
12 - New 1-4 Out: if different cards are chosen
13 A Flash: idea for a flashy printing
13 - Tip: a tip on writing notes on your cards
13 Just A Note: a comedy business card
13 Up and At ' Em: a rising business card
15 A Pocket Version: based on a Don Lawton idea, card rises from
breast pocket
16 S.P.E.H.: The Society for the Preservation of Ernie Heldman,
card personalization idea
18 A Gift: gag gift idea
18 Oil and Water: idea from Leo Behnke for business cards
19 What's In A Name? (Gerald Kosky): two card transposition
20 Two Plus Eleven Minus One: clever math gag, they'll keep your
card
20 Mathormental: mathematical stunt
21 Concerning "Pseudo-Psychometry": bare bones ideas for use with
business cards
22 Living or Dead: ideas on the theme
23 Crosscut: further ideas on the concept
24 Here's My Card: the Out-to-Lunch principle applied
26 Photographs of Ernie Heldman in Action
29 Card Tricks, One Flood of Ideas: ideas for adapting card tricks
to business cards
30 Nail Writers: tips on use
31 Pocket Money: coin prediction
31 The Nail Writer Meets "Glorpy": Glorpy writes on the business
card
32 The Nail Writer Meets "Mental Epic": where the third selection
does not need to be a force
33 Winding Up the Nail Writer: more thoughts and ideas
33 Giant Memory
34 Bowyer Expanded (Tom Bowyer): Turn me over cards
34 A Bowyer Variation: with just two cards
35 Magic Squares: tips on using
35 One Hundred Seventeen and Up: mental effect
36 Knight's Tour: with a 5x5 matrix
38 Another Sixty-Five
39 Sweet Sixteen: 4x4
40 Bombshell Number One
41 Bombshell Number Two
42 Memory By the Numbers: on memory in general, and assigning a
10 digit number to anyone that you will remember
48 Mister Computer: a use for the system
48 Some Tips (Ernie Heldman)
50 Some Final Words (Ernie Heldman)
50 Afterword (Lee Jacobs)