Issue #22 opens fresh from the IBM convention, where a Toledo burglar declined the key to the city on professional grounds and proceeded to pick everyone's locks anyway. Annemann makes a career-defining argument about signature effects, surfaces a federal model for stopping piracy, and delivers a number total that spells the helper's name, a joker that keeps returning, and a coin routine where the half dollar quietly becomes loose change.

Effects Covered

[1:12] Editorial — Theodore Annemann One good trick can make a career, and it's almost never a new one — Annemann runs through a list of working performers each built on a single signature effect found in older literature. Also: attorney Jacob Steisel's account of stopping piracy by going directly to the U.S. Attorney's Office, and Bob Geisel of Toledo pickin ...