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Date: Sunday 25th August 2002
Editor: Alan Watson
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Message from Richard Webster
        
 *****- Brian Flora (52) died of massive heart attack -*****

I am sad to advise that my friend Brian Flora ("Professor Flora")
died on Saturday. Brian was a well-known magician in Albuquerque,
performing in restaurants, schools, private parties, and outdoor
events. His business, Flora and Company, began when he started
producing a series of audio and video tapes to teach other
entertainers how to do the things that he could do so well. In just
a few years, Flora and Company became the world's largest supplier
of marketing materials for magicians, mentalists and family
entertainers. For several years, Brian conducted an annual Magic
Marketing Conference, which attracted a large following of
professional entertainers who attended every year. All of the
participants at these conventions progressed further in their
careers as a result of Brian's advice and motivation.

Brian's legacy is a series of valuable tapes on subjects ranging
from balloonology, to silk-screening, working in restaurants, and
performing school assembly shows. He also wrote "The Master
Marketing Manual", an essential handbook for professional
entertainers. In recent years, Brian turned his lifelong interest in
sideshows and carnivals into a new business, manufacturing
hand-cranked pipe organs. These beautiful hand-made organs have
already become collector's items.

Brian always put his family first, and worked his career around them
and their needs. He was a devoted, loyal and supportive husband and
father, and will be greatly missed by his wife, Jan, and children,
Ian and Hillary.

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