Minch, Stephen: Magic of Milt Kort ©1999 Stephen Minch, Hermetic Press Hardcover, w/dj, 375 pages

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Comments: Illustrated by Sandy Kort.

Contents (from book ToC, items in italics are essay, anecdotes, commentary):

vii Introduction (Ron Bauer)
x Thoughts on Milt Kort's Eightieth Birthday (John Luka)

1 Chapter 1: Kort Kards
3 Kort's Cardinal Rules of Magic
5 Kort's Center Steal
9 How It All Began
11 Diminishing Monte
17 Routines
19 Heir to the Throne
29 Magic as a Hobby
31 Quintimodo
41 Foiling the Speech Teacher
43 Vernon's Variant Variant
47 My Short Career as Master of the Locks
49 The Off-color Twenty-one-card Trick
53 Meeting with the President
55 Second Banana
63 The Quinine Caper
65 Kort's Color-changing Deck +
71 My Sensational Poison Swallowing Act
73 Security Express
77 My Shortest Professional Engagement
79 Matcho
85 Citizen Kort
87 The Courtright Connection
93 What Would You Do?
95 That Darned Ace
101 Maintaining a Reputation
103 Card to Shoes
107 More Kort Luck in the Service
109 Travelers Without Palms
113 Putting on the Gloves
115 Svengali of the Phone Lines

119 Chapter 2: Kort's Koins
121 To Paraphrase Sam Spade
123 Kort's Copper and Silver Transposition (The Director's Cut)
129 The Sterling Shelf Force
131 51¢ Metamorphosis
135 A Free Ring with Every Purchase
137 Korting Rylander's Silver and Copper
145 How I Lost the Break
147 The Invisible Toss
149 The Night Bobo Missed
151 Going, Going, Going, gnioG, Gone
157 What Sleeve?
159 First Out of the Gate
163 A Daley Occurrence
165 Cuckoo's Coin
169 A Great Magician Arrives at Sterling's
171 Delayed Arrival
175 The Other Leipzig
179 The Downs Palm Switch
181 My Lesson from Paul Rosini
183 The Nomad Coins
189 Private Advice from Senor Mardo
191 The Rumsey Vanish
195 Zinc's Mystery Box
197 Nomads in the Dunes
201 We Developed This Policy During My Days at Sterling's
203 Two From Four Equals...?
207 The Plum
209 The Okorto Box Routine
229 Sometimes Luck isn't Enough
231 CoBoxGo
235 Meeting Marlo
237 CoBoxGo 2
241 A Central Compliment
243 The Invisible Okito Box

249 Chapter 3: Kort's Assorted
251 Milt's Major Principle of Magic
253 Kort's Dice Switch
257 An Invitation Declined
259 Cups & Dice
267 The Ammonia Scam
269 Traveling by Boxcar
271 Kort's Drugs
273 No Caboose
275 Magic: A Practical Application
277 Changing Trains
279 Kortchanged
281 Quick-change Crap
283 The Cash Register Caper
285 Milt's Back-palm Gag
287 My Bright Idea
289 Wanna Try?
297 The Literature
299 Kortospheres
313 Cardini's Wish
315 Pen-etration
323 Bob Lund's Shameful Expose
325 Contrary Currency
333 My Shameful Expose
335 Precognitive Cups & Balls
339 Potter's Bar
341 The Egg and mIlt
355 The Tel-twelve Mystics
357 Umgowa!
363 Aboard the Schooner