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He is the incomparable Bob Little of Hatboro, Pennsylvania. He was our lecturer at the January meeting, and he virtually set the room on fire with his enthusiasm. He also set most of us thinking about how we can make our conjuring presentations considerably more exciting by emphasizing the entertainment factor and the need to sell ourselves as much as our routines. Bob's specialty is cards, but he didn't teach us any tricks per se. What he explained, clearly and precisely, were various dynamic methods for dramatically revealing selected cards and tips on how to purposefully "show off" to our spectators with eye-popping yet easy-to-accomplish flourishes and displays. His repertoire is culled from the legacies of such as Walter Cummings, Paul Rosini, Ken Allen, and Max Londono, but he exemplifies how to customize the creations of others to suit our own styles. A special treat was his demonstration of expert card scaling and boomerang spinning. Whether cutting a card in midair with a pair of shears or slashing through a newspaper page from a distance of 15 feet or more, Wild Man Bob evoked audible gasps of admiration from the group. There is no other magician-no other human being in the world like Bob Little.