Today is the birthday of Dai Vernon (David Verner, 1894-1992), a.k.a. ‘The Professor” and “The Man Who Fooled Houdini”). Vernon’s father, an amateur magician first interested him in magic as a child. Born and raised in Ottawa, he taught himself sleight of hand, studied mechanical engineering then moved to New York to pursue his dream […]
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 07:02AM on June 11, 2013