Milton Kort

Milton Kort
Born	Michigan, USA Born 1917
Died	August 1st, 2003
Cause of death	natural causes
Nationality	American
Occupation	pharmacist
Known for	sleight of Hand, card magic

History

Milton Kort (1917–2003) was a professional pharmacist, but dabbled in sleight of hand.

He was a hobbyist magician that seldom traveled outside the Detroit area and who rarely performed. Yet he was a man whom the professionals and greats in magic flocked to see. Professional magicians like Paul Rosini, Stewart James, Dr. Jacob Daley, J. B. Bobo, Charlie Miller, Cardini, Dai Vernon and many more sought out Milt Kort and shared secrets with him. Innumerable authors of magic books and articles fell back time and again to his immense knowledge.^[1]

As a teenager in the 1930s, he worked as a demonstrator at Sterling Magic, owned by Harold Sterling. He became regarded as a fine amateur magician and thinker.^[2]

As a young man, he enlisted in the Army during World War II and became a supply sergeant. Eventually, he became a full time pharmacist, opening his own store - Kort's Drugs.

Milton Kort was good friends with coin magician J.B. Bobo, and contributed a majority of the work in BOBO's Coin Magic.^[3] A man like Milt Kort could fool and entertain an audience in even the most casual and intimate of settings.^[4] Milton Kort attended the local chapter of the International Brotherhood of Magicians Ring #22 in the Detroit, Michigan metropolitan area.

Kort had one simple rule, Kort's First Principle: Have Fun!^[5]

Published works

• Kort is Now in Session
• Off-color Card Tricks
• Kortially Yours
• Kort, The Magic of Milt Kort by Hermetic Press

See also

• List of magicians
• Card magic
• sleight of hand
• Pharmacists

External links

• See more about Milton Kort at MagicPedia, the free online Magic encyclopedia.
• Milt Kort short biography
• Milton Kort Magic Token
• International Brotherhood of Magicians Ring 22 History
• Kort is Now is Session bibliography
• Guest Speakers - Milt Kort
• Milt Kort Passes
• Milt Kort death announcement

References

1. ^ "Milton Kort - Biographies page KLM". http://www.magicnook.com/forum/bioKLM.htm. 
2. ^ "Milton Kort - MagicHistorian". http://www.magichistorian.com/wiki/index.php/Milton_Kort. 
3. ^ "International Brotherhood of Magicians Ring 22, Michigan". http://www.ibmring22.org/history.html. 
4. ^ "Brad Zellar Radio Weblogs". http://radio.weblogs.com/0113906/2003/02/28.html. 
5. ^ "Magic Token Society". http://www.magictokensociety.com/catalog/item/919830/711790.htm. 

Persondata
Name	Kort, Milton
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Short description
Date of birth	1917-00-00
Place of birth	Michigan, USA Born 1917
Date of death	3 August 2003
Place of death