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Carl Ballantine dies at 92

Carl Ballantine, who performed feats of bumbling comic magic on Vaudeville and on television, the movies and in Las Vegas, died Tuesday of natural causes at his Hollywood home. He was 92. Full Article at Hollywood Reporter

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