Here are two articles I found featuring Mickey MacDougall. Nothing we don't already know around here, but still fun.

https://books.google.com/books?id=nkkEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA118
https://books.google.com/books?id=ckoEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA45

Enjoy,

Andru

Here's one from Readers Digest.

https://archive.org/stream/in.ernet.dli.......mode/1up

Andru

Interesting find, thank you.

A few more:

https://www.unz.com/print/Colliers-1952jun21-00006/

1952-11-30 https://archive.org/stream/dailycolonist......mode/1up
1952-12-07 https://archive.org/stream/dailycolonist......mode/1up
1952-12-14 https://archive.org/stream/dailycolonist......mode/1up
1952-12-21 https://archive.org/stream/dailycolonist......mode/1up
1952-12-28 https://archive.org/stream/dailycolonist......mode/1up
1953-01-04 https://archive.org/stream/dailycolonist......mode/1up
1953-01-11 https://archive.org/stream/dailycolonist......mode/1up
1953-01-18 https://archive.org/stream/dailycolonist......mode/1up
1953-01-25 https://archive.org/stream/dailycolonist......mode/1up

1958-12-28 https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=jL......C5744123

Does anyone here know of a reference for the standard in the hands slip cut that is older than 1939?

Currently, this article in Life Magazine is the oldest reference I know of for that move. If this is really the oldest reference, I think that's hilarious!

Andru

Thanks for posting that, what a cool article! Life was such a great magazine.

Do you think those pics and descriptions of card moves were really produced by Life, or were they actually taken from something else? They seem, to me, like they might have been pulled from some other publication. They are using terms like "cull" "palm" and "knuckle flash" without any real explanation. I guess people could deduce the meanings, but it seems a bit out of place for an article like this.

Also, are there any documented cases of anyone actually having their second finger amputated at the first joint to hide knuckle flash while bottom dealing? Lol. Seems to me that if you are playing with people sharp enough to look for knuckle flash, sitting down at a table with half your finger missing might be a bit of a tell!!

Odd that the pics are out of sequence, but the page numbers are in order. Sloppy editing?

And is it just me or did Mickey keep an extremely long right thumbnail? lol

According to Darwin Ortiz there's not.