NPR and Barry Gordemer present "A Magician's Quest for the Perfect Card Cheat", an article and book excerpt from Karl Johnson's "The Magician and the Cardsharp"....
Dai Vernon, considered among the most influential magicians of the 20th century, could do just about any trick that called for sleight of hand. He was obsessed with learning the secrets of crooked card dealers. But there was one move he couldn't master..
In the The Magician and the Cardsharp, author Karl Johnson documents Vernon's quest to find the one man who was able to perform the holy grail of card tricks -- the so-called "center deal," dealing a specific card from anywhere in the deck, undetected
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