No sleight of hand: At 85, they’re still making magic together..
Three minutes of magic on The Ed Sullivan Show in 1967 changed Dick and Joanne Gustafson’s lives forever.
Both 85, they now tour suburban senior centers and school assemblies instead of the European night clubs of their heyday. But their flame burns as brightly as it did when they performed “Magic by Candlelight” on national TV nearly 50 years ago.
Dick Gustafson was a career research chemist at Rohm and Haas, doing magic as a hobby, when fate changed his focus from reality to illusion.
“I married a chemist, but I got a magician,” Joanne Gustafson said, smiling at her husband of 62 years in their cozy Horsham living room.
“She has said that for a million years,” he said. “Then she usually says, ‘Where did I go wrong?’ ”
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