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Fantasy Times, v. 2, issue 17, whole no. 48, April 27, 1947
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Fantasy Times "The World Of Tomorrow Today!" Vol. 2 - No. 17 Corona 27 April 1947 Whole No. 48 The Cosmic Reporter edited by Lane Stannard Robert A Heinlein has his second story in the current, April 26, 1947 issue of the Saturday Evening Post. Space Jockey is its name and it is well illustrated by Fred Ludekens, who also illustrated Heinlein's first SatEvPost yarn in the Feb. 8th issue. Both Heinlein and Ludekens have their pictures printed in the Feb 8th issue of SatEvPost in the Keeping Posted department. Heinlein, we are informed, has two more yarns coming up in SatEvPost. Life, for April 28, carries a 4 page picture review of the current stage play of Alice in Wonderland, featuring Bambi Linn. The cover of Life shows Alice talking to Humpty Dumpty. Liberty comes thru with some stf items. What Science Doesn't Know by W.W. Taylor; Navy vs. Air Force on how to Fight the Next War by H. Struve Hensel and Robert S. Allen; and Liberty picks Down to Earth, a fantasy film, as a movie eligible for top honors. The movie features Rita Hayworth and Larry Parks. Rita plays a Greek goddess who falls in love with a mortal man, and tho Larry gets Rita it takes him until 1987 to do so. Collier's of May 3, also has a few science-fictionish articles; Man and The Atom, a general title that covers a number of articles on the atom and like subjects, by David E. Lilienthal, Lester Velie Robert Devore and Albert Q. Maisel. P.S.F.S. The next meeting of the Philadelphia Science Fiction Society will be held Sunday Evening, April 27th, today, at their clubroom, at the Southeast corner of 56th and Pine Streets, Philadelphia. The featured speaker will be the well-known author A.M. Phillips who will give a talk entitled An Appreciation of Semantics. Scientibooks by Joe Kennedy A new weird anthology that promises to be a knock-out is Tales of the Undead, edited and illustrated by Elinore Blaisdell. The book will be published May 16 by The Crowell Co., NY., will sell at $3.50, and will contain tales by such favorites as Lovecraft, Quinn, C.A. Smith, Wakefield, Wellman, F.B. Long, Derleth Bloch, Benson and others. The atom bomb, germ warfare, and several even more terrifying weapons kill 50,000,000 Americans in the Russian-USA War of 1950. That's the story of World Aflame, by Leonard Engel & Emanuel Piller due May 5 from Dial Publishers of New York at $2.00. An example of science-fiction being used as scare propaganda, this book is being given a big advance build-up in Book-Trade Journals. The Uninvited, very good supernatural novel familiar to most fans, by Dorothy Macardle, is now (continued on page 46, column 1) SUPPORT THE PHILCON
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Fantasy Times "The World Of Tomorrow Today!" Vol. 2 - No. 17 Corona 27 April 1947 Whole No. 48 The Cosmic Reporter edited by Lane Stannard Robert A Heinlein has his second story in the current, April 26, 1947 issue of the Saturday Evening Post. Space Jockey is its name and it is well illustrated by Fred Ludekens, who also illustrated Heinlein's first SatEvPost yarn in the Feb. 8th issue. Both Heinlein and Ludekens have their pictures printed in the Feb 8th issue of SatEvPost in the Keeping Posted department. Heinlein, we are informed, has two more yarns coming up in SatEvPost. Life, for April 28, carries a 4 page picture review of the current stage play of Alice in Wonderland, featuring Bambi Linn. The cover of Life shows Alice talking to Humpty Dumpty. Liberty comes thru with some stf items. What Science Doesn't Know by W.W. Taylor; Navy vs. Air Force on how to Fight the Next War by H. Struve Hensel and Robert S. Allen; and Liberty picks Down to Earth, a fantasy film, as a movie eligible for top honors. The movie features Rita Hayworth and Larry Parks. Rita plays a Greek goddess who falls in love with a mortal man, and tho Larry gets Rita it takes him until 1987 to do so. Collier's of May 3, also has a few science-fictionish articles; Man and The Atom, a general title that covers a number of articles on the atom and like subjects, by David E. Lilienthal, Lester Velie Robert Devore and Albert Q. Maisel. P.S.F.S. The next meeting of the Philadelphia Science Fiction Society will be held Sunday Evening, April 27th, today, at their clubroom, at the Southeast corner of 56th and Pine Streets, Philadelphia. The featured speaker will be the well-known author A.M. Phillips who will give a talk entitled An Appreciation of Semantics. Scientibooks by Joe Kennedy A new weird anthology that promises to be a knock-out is Tales of the Undead, edited and illustrated by Elinore Blaisdell. The book will be published May 16 by The Crowell Co., NY., will sell at $3.50, and will contain tales by such favorites as Lovecraft, Quinn, C.A. Smith, Wakefield, Wellman, F.B. Long, Derleth Bloch, Benson and others. The atom bomb, germ warfare, and several even more terrifying weapons kill 50,000,000 Americans in the Russian-USA War of 1950. That's the story of World Aflame, by Leonard Engel & Emanuel Piller due May 5 from Dial Publishers of New York at $2.00. An example of science-fiction being used as scare propaganda, this book is being given a big advance build-up in Book-Trade Journals. The Uninvited, very good supernatural novel familiar to most fans, by Dorothy Macardle, is now (continued on page 46, column 1) SUPPORT THE PHILCON
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