Out‐of‐Pocket: Tricks in the Trade

Give Gene Anderson a newspaper and he probably won't head for the business section or the op‐ed page. Instead, the senior project manager at Dow Chemical Co. is more likely to snip it into little squares and then—presto!—restore it to original size. It's a trick made famous by Broadway magician Doug Henning, but one that Anderson, author of the book Newspaper Magic, actually invented. Published by Magic Inc., in Chicago in 1968, the book is still a best (magic) seller.