Mr Burrell, a member of the Southend Sorcerers Magic Group, said when he started out in magic he struggled with card and deception tricks.

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Basketball legend "Magic" Johnson led a group that won an auction for the Los Angeles Dodgers baseball team Tuesday night, marking the final chapter in a soap-opera-style saga for the legendary franchise.

WSJ: Dodgers Sold for $2.15 Billion

"It translates into seven or eight figures in marketing and endorsements, " says Darren Prince, who runs Prince Marketing Group, a sports and entertainment company that counts Magic Johnson and Dennis Rodman among its clients.

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The Wiliamsburgh Savings Bank Tower, for example, has been converted into luxury condos by a group in partnership with basketball Hall-of-Famer Magic Johnson.

WSJ: Setting Stages Fit for Bond

The magic, it turns out, is in that subatomic spray, as the group treated with an electron shower benefited from a polymerizing effect or, more plainly, a bonding of molecules just above the skin's surface that yielded a tough, protective nano-layer measuring between 50- to 100-billionths of a meter thick.

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