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May 27, 1933

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In That State of Life

Geoffrey T. Hellman

PROFILE of Joseph P. Day, the world's crack-real-estate auctioneer. He has sold a billion and a quarter dollars worth of property in the first three …

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It's Fun to be Fooled... It's More Fun to Know

Robert Benchley

Here are some of the tricks of sleight-of-hand which I used to do when I was a boy, together with complete explanations of how each trick was done...

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