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...born a century too soon. Today he would have bought himself an act, taken lessons from experts and played the Emerald City to standees. Across the country, magic is enjoying unprecedented fortune. Says Dai Vernon, 80-year-old dean of American magic: "I've been conjuring for six decades; I don't know when the field has been so fertile." James Randi, a prestidigitator who tours with the Alice Cooper show, agrees: "Magic has had red-letter days. But this is a red-letter year." The prediction is no illusion...
...Francisco, the Magic Cellar has an answer to Dai Vernon: "Paris," a five-year-old magician with an ageless routine...
...island, picking up work as he went. Seven years later, after earning a degree in psychology, he convinced the Canada Council that magic was an art form in need of further investigation. The council, which provides governmental funding for the arts, bankrolled his studies of legerdemain with Professor Dai Vernon at the Magic Castle. In three months, he had mastered the trade of the tricks. Two producers caught his act in Toronto and built a hit around him. Today, with a combination of optical illusions, paraphernalia and misdirection, Henning holds audiences in the palm of his sleight of hand...
...Vernon E. Jordan Jr., 38. Successor to the late Whitney Young as executive director of the National Urban League, Jordan is considered to be one of the top black leaders in the U.S. today. A 1960 Howard University law graduate, he is a cool-headed peacemaker who earned his civil rights stripes escorting Charlayne Hunter through snarling white students at the University of Georgia. As head of the Southern Regional Council's 1968 voter-education drive, he helped put 2 million new black voters on the rolls and ultimately increase the region's number of elected black officials...
...members of Radcliffe's chapter of Phi Beta Kappa are: Paula A. Balboni '75, of South House and West Simsbury, Conn.; Carol R. Glauberman '75, of Winthrop House and Mt. Vernon, N.Y.; Maud W. Gleason '75, of South House and Roma Lazio, Italy; Anne P. Goodale '75, of Quincy House and Amherst; Jean M. Guyton '75, of Kirkland House and Jackson, Miss.; Martha E. Li '75, of Leverett House and Columbus, Ohio; Katherine J. Moos '75, of North House and Stony Brook, N.Y.; and Susan C. Scheinberg '75, of North House and Scarsdale...