Sidney Hollis Radner (December 8, 1919 – June 26, 2011) was a rug salesman from Holyoke, Massachusetts, who owned one of the world's largest and most valuable collections of Harry Houdini artifacts. Radner was a 1937 graduate of

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and matriculated to

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Biography

He was born on December 8, 1919, and attended

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. Houdini's brother

Theodore Hardeen Theodore "Dash" Hardeen (born Ferenc Dezső Weisz; March 4, 1876 – June 12, 1945) was a Hungarian-American magician and escape artist who was the younger brother of Harry Houdini. Hardeen, who usually billed himself as the "brother of H ...

considered Radner as his protégé. Hardeen died in June 1945, willed most of Houdini's collection to Radner. Radner died of cancer in Holyoke on June 26, 2011, at the age of 91.''The New York Times'' obituary (June 27, 2011)
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