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Acolyte, v. 3, issue 2, whole no. 11, Summer 1945
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learned that these wrecks were caused by a new Nazi invention. One of the crashed planes had supposedly contained a famous French scientist and his pretty daughter, but a French secret agent had communicated the information that they had been taken from the plane at its last stop before the crash, because the scientist was working on a new invention of his own. If Conquetes reappears, perhaps we shall learn if Captain Sarlatt rescued the scientist and his pretty daughter, and also further details about the secret radio apparatus concealed in the heel of the special shoe the professor wore on his club-foot. Two more pages were given over to an article entitled "Plus Forts que Jules Verne" by "Arthenay". The most interesting part of this lies in the reproduction of five fine engravings illustrating scenes from Verne's novels, presumably taken from early editions. The article itself is a summary of the predictions in the Verne books that have come true, and a list of his more obvious scientific errors. Popular science intruded in the remainder of the issue, in the form a very dull article on the latest big French steamer (accompanied by a full-color, double-page spread), and a description of how Pasteur conquered a silkworm disease. The last page was devoted to brief notes on things scientific, entitled "From Here and There". The brief editorial had a familiar ring to the hardened fan: "Don't hesitate to write us, telling your suggestions, asking the questions that interest you; we shall do the impossible..." The magazine was to have been priced at one franc per issue, and to have appeared every Thursday. It is not at all unlikely that Gallet will again attempt to give France a scientifiction magazine; in a recent letter to Forrest J Ackerman he spoke much as though active plans were afoot. At the moment, however, his chief publishing and writing ventures center bringing up to date France's knowledge of Hollywood--telling of the news tars that have arisen, the old ones that have faded, and all the other gossip so dear to the movie addict's heart. But Gallet is still deeply interested in scientifiction, and it is probable that this interest will sooner or later have concrete results. Grecian Rhapsody A Fragment There is a land beyond the distant sea That through the centuries seems calling me.... A land where many forest fountains play, And nymphs with laughing eyes peer through the spray; Where dryads yet are known to live in trees Beneath whose branches satyrs loll at ease. Beside a pool, all gleaming white and fair, Artemis stands and combs her dusky hair. Around her dance her maidens; and one steals Away on eager feet unseen, and feels With rapture mortal arms about her close, And hears a shepherd's words of love, and knows A joy far greater in his young embrace Than any she has known upon the chase.... ---Robert Avrett -- 14 --
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learned that these wrecks were caused by a new Nazi invention. One of the crashed planes had supposedly contained a famous French scientist and his pretty daughter, but a French secret agent had communicated the information that they had been taken from the plane at its last stop before the crash, because the scientist was working on a new invention of his own. If Conquetes reappears, perhaps we shall learn if Captain Sarlatt rescued the scientist and his pretty daughter, and also further details about the secret radio apparatus concealed in the heel of the special shoe the professor wore on his club-foot. Two more pages were given over to an article entitled "Plus Forts que Jules Verne" by "Arthenay". The most interesting part of this lies in the reproduction of five fine engravings illustrating scenes from Verne's novels, presumably taken from early editions. The article itself is a summary of the predictions in the Verne books that have come true, and a list of his more obvious scientific errors. Popular science intruded in the remainder of the issue, in the form a very dull article on the latest big French steamer (accompanied by a full-color, double-page spread), and a description of how Pasteur conquered a silkworm disease. The last page was devoted to brief notes on things scientific, entitled "From Here and There". The brief editorial had a familiar ring to the hardened fan: "Don't hesitate to write us, telling your suggestions, asking the questions that interest you; we shall do the impossible..." The magazine was to have been priced at one franc per issue, and to have appeared every Thursday. It is not at all unlikely that Gallet will again attempt to give France a scientifiction magazine; in a recent letter to Forrest J Ackerman he spoke much as though active plans were afoot. At the moment, however, his chief publishing and writing ventures center bringing up to date France's knowledge of Hollywood--telling of the news tars that have arisen, the old ones that have faded, and all the other gossip so dear to the movie addict's heart. But Gallet is still deeply interested in scientifiction, and it is probable that this interest will sooner or later have concrete results. Grecian Rhapsody A Fragment There is a land beyond the distant sea That through the centuries seems calling me.... A land where many forest fountains play, And nymphs with laughing eyes peer through the spray; Where dryads yet are known to live in trees Beneath whose branches satyrs loll at ease. Beside a pool, all gleaming white and fair, Artemis stands and combs her dusky hair. Around her dance her maidens; and one steals Away on eager feet unseen, and feels With rapture mortal arms about her close, And hears a shepherd's words of love, and knows A joy far greater in his young embrace Than any she has known upon the chase.... ---Robert Avrett -- 14 --
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