A memory expert and magician who was a favorite guest of Johnny Carson’s, he astonished audiences by reeling off the names of hundreds of people he had only just met. By Margalit Fox Harry Lorayne, ...

Harry Lorayne, a memory expert who appeared two dozen times on Johnny Carson’s edition of “The Tonight Show,” died Friday at 96 in Newburyport, Mass. No cause was given by his publicist, who confirmed ...

Harry Lorayne, a master of memory and a frequent guest on late-night television talk shows, where he showed off his powers of retention, died Friday. He was 96. Lorayne died at a hospital in ...

While preparing for the 1983 wartime spoof “To Be or Not To Be,” Mel Brooks and his wife, Anne Bancroft, had to memorize the lyrics to “Sweet Georgia Brown” in Polish for one of the film’s opening ...

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