PDF Taster Issue No.1 THE MAGIC MAGAZINE FOR www.magicseen.co.uk MAGICIANS & MENTALISTS DAVID COPPERFIELD: STILL FLYING HIGH PLUS: THROWDINI GAFF COINS PART 4 REVIEWS MASTERCLASS MARC OBERON HOW TO BECOME A WORLD MAGIC CHAMPION PDF TASTER magicseen: THE MAGAZINE YOU CAN’T WAIT TO PUT IN YOUR RECYCLE BIN! CONTAININGTHE LATEST EXTRACTS ISSUE FROM AND SELECTED BACK ISSUES LETTERS Readers’ letters... If you have anything you would like to tell us, whether it’s about the magazine or anything magic related, please email: [email protected] TREVOR’S ESCAPES I watched a TV documentary recently, which featured Trevor Baylis, the man who invented the wind-up radio, and he mentioned that he was an escapologist! What exactly did he do? Liam Morton, Berwick Trevor was an accomplished swimmer in his younger days (he swam for great Britain when he was just 15!) and worked for a company called Purley Pools which developed swimming pools. 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I was connected up to Blaine does it that might be a bit too late, loads of gadgets and now I knew PAUL’S SPOT OF because, being a man, I already it was really serious because I for Haiti BOTHER! knew I was at death’s door, so they know how painful it is to pull them Illusionist David Blaine has Paul Daniels reported on a recent changed it to 8.50am.” damn sticky pads off again. worked some of his magic to heart scare through his always help earthquake victims in Haiti. interesting blog. Paul said he sneaked out of the “They scanned my heart and (http://www.pauldaniels.co.uk/blog/). house and went to see the doctor. showed me the scan pictures. 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I ask government, and the only him if he has come to terms with his status in the entertainer to have his image as entertainment world and beyond? “When I pull up to a theatre or arena, I can't really wrap my brain legal tender on postage stamps by around the fact that people want to come and four different nations, it quickly see what I do,” he says, “I still find it amazing becomes apparent that David when a president refers to my name, and when Orson Welles introduced my first TV special, it Copperfield is so much more than was a crazy thing like a dream, in fact, if I could a magician.