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Title: Jack Swimmer, mentalist
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1953
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
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Description: Photo of mentalist Jack Swimmer (on the right) with actress Mitzi Gaynor as he contributes a check for $1,000 to be given to her favorite charity after he correctly predicted the outcome of the Marciano-Wolcott title boxing match. His prediction read: "Marciano will win the fight by a knockout in the first round after two minutes and twenty-five seconds." Photo dated: May 20, 1953.
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00051559
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 1994.
CARL0000055393
http://cdm16703.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/18628
Subject: Swimmer, Jack
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Future in popular culture
Los Angeles Evening Herald Express photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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