Dai Vernon (born David Frederick Wingfield Verner 11th June 1894 in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada - died 1992 in Hollywood, California) was a Canadian magician. Though a popular misconception is that he began to use the first name "Dai" after a newspaper mistyped "David", the paper actually was using the Welsh nickname for David (he was happy for it to be pronounced Day or Die). When Verner first moved to the United States, … Wikipedia
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I know Vernon advocated this line of thinking (even though he didnt always adhere to it himself), but Im uncertain as to why this seems to be such a lofty goal. www.andigladwin.co.uk/blog/posts/life-sentence/
Dai Vernon demonstrates the Allen Kennedy "center deal" in a 1982 video recording with magicians Gary Ouellet and Steve Freeman. www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5666567
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