Thompson, J.G.: The Living End ©1972 J.G. Thompson; Pub. Haines House of Cards, OH Softcover, saddle-stitched, 5x8", 164 pages

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Comments: B&W Photo Illustrated. Over 200 Different Impromptu Take-A-Card Trick Endings. Date of publication courtesy Genii's Magicpedia

Contents:

I Introduction (John Braun)
iii Foreword

1 Chapter 1 Neophytes Delight
1 Naming the Card
1 Pulse Reading
1 The Spectator Names His Card
2 The Spread
2 From the Voice
2 Lip Reading Test (Howard Albright)
3 A Different Ending (H. Adrian Smith)
3 Think Stop
3 From the Spectator's Pocket
3 Top or Bottom
3 Card Change
4 Clipped (Frank Cauri)
4 It Was In My Pocket
4 Right About There
5 The Stab
5 The Stabbed Card
5 Hindu Dream Variation (Henry Hardin)
5 Flip-Over
6 Allez Oop (Frank Dobrina)
7 Card On the Wall
7 The Startler
7 Surprise Card Thru The Case (Arthur Buckley)
9 Spring Flourish Production
9 The Flying Card
9 The Springing Cards
11 Tap-A-Card (Jimmy Conner)

12 Chapter 2 Transuders and Pergrinators
12 Section 1 - Penetrating Cards
12 The Ambitious Card
14 New Card Location (C.M. Coies)
14 The Penetrating Card
16 Beneath (Henry Gordien)
16 Through the Hat
17 Card Thru Plate (Charles Waller)
17 Thru the Magazine
18 Through the Table (J.G. Thompson, Jr.)
18 Gone Right Through (Eddie Joseph)
19 Section 2 - Traveling Cards Vanish
19 Rub 'Er
20 Mouthful (John Scarne)
21 Card to Card Case (Marlo)
21 Card In The Pocket (Wm. H. McCaffrey)
22 Tommy Dowd's Card In The Pocket
24 Company For the Old Lady
25 Card In The Hat
25 A Bit of Card Tomfoolery (Charles Waller)
25 The Nervous Card (S.H. Sharpe)
26 Psycho-Dyne (Stewart James)

28 Chapter 3 My Crystal, Please
28 Mentelimenation (Verne Chesbro)
29 Percepto (Verne Chesbro)
30 Princess Card Trick
30 The Finger Knows And Tells (Al Baker)
31 Number Please (Al Baker, Audley Walsh)
33 Winged Thoughts (J.G. Thompson, Jr.)
36 Call Me Up Sometime (Theo. Annemann)
37 The Eyes Have It (J.G. Thompson, Jr.)
38 Special Delivery
39 Nothing To Do (Paul Morris)
40 Mindreading With Any Assistant (U.F. Grant)
40 Mindreading With Any Assistant No. 2 (U.F. Grant)

42 Chapter 4 Presto! Spectator Prestidigitators
42 Selected Card From Spectator's Pocket
42 From the Pocket (Jack Merlin)
43 Favorite Card Trick (Stuart Judah)
43 Card At Any Number
44 Stop When Ready (Henry Christ)
45 Hilarious Finish To An Old Trick
45 A Second Spectator's Number
45 The Three Numbers (T. Page Wright)
46 Torn Pack Location
47 Spectator's Guess (Stanley Collins)
47 The Magic Thrust I
48 The Magic Thrust II (Robert Brethen)
48 A Double Surprise (Sheldon Levy)
49 Stop Me At Any Time
49 Riffle Stop (Annemann)
50 Last Stop
50 Spectator Deals and Stops (Annemann)
51 The Psychological Stop Trick
52 The So Simple Force Variation (Lynn Searles)
52 The Tip-Up Discovery (Jack Merlin)
53 Perfect Card Force Variation (Richard Williams)
53 Card Hypnotism (A.P. Johnson)
54 Spectator Change (Jack Merlin)
54 Repeat Selection (J.G. Thompson, Jr.)
55 A Lesson in Card Magic (T. Page Wright)
58 A Trick in Timing (Dr. Jacob Daley)

59 Chapter 5 Wham!
59 You're Crazier Than I Am! (Montandon & Wait)
60 Flip (Le Paul)
60 G.W. Hunter's Laugh
61 You Didn't Notice It? (R.M. Jamison)
61 The Kick-Back Discovery
61 The Cards Were Cut!
62 Surrealism (George G. Kaplan)
62 Try This For Size (Richard Himber)
63 Come Forth (Maury Kains)
63 Just an Old Chinese Custom
63 Underneath (U.F. Grant)
64 Glide Gag
65 Evens and Middles (Baffles Brush)
65 Sucker Gag
66 Indifferent Card Changes to Chosen Card
66 My Ghost Card Trick (Bert Douglas)
67 A Selected Card Revealed (H. Adrian Smith)
68 Snap Change (Jack Merlin)
69 A Startling Transformation
69 A Mind Reading Interlude (T. Page Wright; William Larsen)
70 Chango
70 A Card In Hand (Annemann)
71 Pulling a Fast One (R.M. Jamison)
72 The Card in Pocket Transformation (Larsen & Wright)
73 Deuce Transposition
74 The Elm Card Change (E. Leslie May)
74 The Eight In the Side Pocket (Dai Vernon)
75 The Delovely Delusion (Charles Miller)
77 A Mistake, But... (T. Page Wright)
77 Complaisant Card
78 Something Screwey (Orville W. Meyer)

80 Chapter 6 Not a Single Revelation
80 Cards At The Fingertips (Comte)
81 Duplex Trick (Burger - Slayton)
81 Double Barrell (Doc Miffin)
82 The Magic Thrust III (Theo. Annemann)
82 Mistake? (J.G. Thompson, Jr.)
83 Twin Souls (Al Baker)
84 The Pack Vanishes
84 The Cards and the Pellets
85 The Expert at the Card Table (Bruce Elliot)
86 Site-Unseen (Lu Brent)
87 Variation for a Force of Four Cards
87 Found, One Poker Hand (Doc Mifflin)
89 Tattle-Tale

90 Chapter 7 Not to the Manner Born
90 Card on the Ceiling
90 Card and Plate
91 A Card Through the Plate
91 Clear Thru! (Jimmy Grippo)
92 Satan's Mail (Hardin)
93 The Walk Around Discovery (Annemann)
94 Pierced (J.G. Thompson, Jr.)
94 Under the Knife (J.G. Thompson, Jr.)
95 The Hooded New (Eddie Joseph)
96 The Revolution (Eddie Joseph)
96 The Salt Trick
97 Mystery of the Glass House
98 The Psychic Toothpick (Annemann)
98 Clip (Jack Vosburgh)
99 Not My Card (Frank Lane)
100 As A Result of an Error (Chester Morris)
100 The Cockeyed Cards (Clayton Rawson)
102 Torn and Restored Card (Eugene Laurant)
103 Pocketbook Card (Theo. Annemann)
103 The Easy Card in Wallet
104 A Card for Mercury

106 Chapter 8 The Last Word
106 The Smacker (Eddie Joseph)
106 The Renegade (Eddie Joseph)
106 The Somersault (Eddie Joseph)
107 With a Glass of Water
107 The Fingerprint Discovery (U.F. Grant)
107 The Marked Deck (U.F. Grant)
108 Silver Sleuth (U.F. Grant)
108 A Cut With a Coin (Larsen and Wright)
108 Flying Indicator (Jack Merlin)
109 With Five Cards
109 Fadeaway Cards (Jack McMillen)
110 Sensitive Soul (Blous Houghton)
110 Nufind (Al Baker)
111 Divination (Wm. H. McCaffey)
111 Match It (Tom Osborne, Lu Brent)
112 Number Spell-out (J.G. Thompson, Jr.)
113 Spelling a Card (Lawrence Gray)
114 Frank Squires' Speller
114 Frank Squires' Speller With Any Card (Fred Braue)
115 Spectator's Name Spell
116 The Reversed Card
116 Double Reverse (Walter B. Gibson)
117 A Pantomime Card Location (Ireland & King)
118 Two (Audley Walsh)
119 Under Cover (Franklin M. Chapman)
120 Little Finger Rising Cards
120 Eerie Card Rise (Jack McMillen)
122 The Jumping Location (Eddie Joseph)
123 Snap It
123 Magic Shuffle Variation (Clayton Rawson)
124 The Fingers (Orville W. Meyer)
125 The Card Between (J.B. Bobo)
126 The Prisoner Can't Escape (Paul Morris)
127 Murder Mystery With Cards (Robert Gunther)
128 The Aces And the Criminal (Theo. Annemann)
129 Are You Sure? (Paul Morris)
131 Miraculous (Louis Lam)
132 The Royal Finders (Jack Merlin)
134 Name Your Poison (Clayton Rawson)
136 The Top Card Knows
136 Up and Down (Tom Sellers)
136 Divining Hanky (Marlo)
137 By Touch Alone (Harlan Tarbell)
138 Last Chance (L. Vosburgh Lyons)
138 Last Touch (Stuart Robson)
139 Lie Detector Variation (J.G. Thompson, Jr.)
139 The Awful Truth (Jack Vosburgh)
140 The Tune Detective (Annemann)
140 The Clumsy Performer (Theo. Annemann)
141 Watchful Queen Variation (W.A. Flaig)
141 The Captain Card
142 Before the Eyes Variation (Norman Ashworth)
142 The Name of the Card Is
143 My Number, Your Card (Jack Vosburgh)
144 Call Your Hand Variation (J.G. Thompson, Jr.)
144 Thumbnail Measuring
145 The Torn Deck Mystery (Edward Marlo)
146 Guess Your Card (J.G. Thompson, Jr.)
146 Finale (U.F. Grant)

149 Chapter 9 Means to an End
149 Thompson Force Get Ready
150 Forcing
150 Thompson Glimpse (J.G. Thompson, Jr.)
150 From 1 to 10 (J.G. Thompson, Jr.)
151 Placing Card Any Number Above Ten From Top of Pack
151 Discovery (George G. Kaplan)
153 Card Control to Top or Bottom
153 Top Glimpse
154 Bottom Glimpse
154 Mifflin False Riffle Shuffle (John W. Mifflin)
155 False Shuffle to Retain Top Stock
157 False Shuffle to Retain Bottom Stock
157 False Cut
157 The Slip Cut - One Card Lost From the Top
158 The Mexican Turnover
158 The Glide
159 One Hand Charlier Pass
160 Palming the Card
161 Standard Color Change
161 Reversing the Bottom Card (John W. Mifflin)
162 Preparing for the Double Lift
163 Thumb Count
164 In Conclusion