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Fantasy Times, v. 2, issue 18, whole no. 49, May 4, 1947
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Fantasy-Times Page 51 The PSFS The April 27th meeting of the Philadelphia Science Fiction Society featured a talk entitled "An Appreciation of Semantics" by Alexander M. Phillips. Following this a lively discussion on Aristotelian and non-aristotelian logic ensued, carried on mainly by Benson Dooling, Lex Phillips, Andre Weitzenhoffer and Milton A. Rothman. Upon adjournment, the members retired to the back room for refreshments. - mar THIS WEEK BOOSTS SCIENCE-FICTION (continued from page 49, column 1) Astounding showing prophetic trends in those mags, and with pics of "Space Expert" Campbell and of Dr. Herman Muller. Nobel prize winner, with his nose buried in the April 1939 Astounding. The Cosmic Reporter edited by Lane Stannard The Murder of the USA by Will F. Jenkins has just come out in pocket-book form, published by Handi-Book Mystery, and selling for 20[cent]. Tho this book was judged as one of the best stf novel of 1946, when it appeared in Argosy as a two part serial, all publishers insist on calling it a "new kind of murder mystery". The flyleaf of the pocket-book states: "Will F. Jenkins has turned his pen to the problem of atomic war, has presented the probably defenses, and at the same time has created one of the most dramatic and exciting detective yarns ever written." Tho many of those handi-book mysteries are cut, The Murder of the USA is reprinted complete. -ls The new book, Man Against Myth, by Barrows Dunham, devotes a chapter to Korzybski and null-A.....but for the purpose of raking it over the coals. - mar
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Fantasy-Times Page 51 The PSFS The April 27th meeting of the Philadelphia Science Fiction Society featured a talk entitled "An Appreciation of Semantics" by Alexander M. Phillips. Following this a lively discussion on Aristotelian and non-aristotelian logic ensued, carried on mainly by Benson Dooling, Lex Phillips, Andre Weitzenhoffer and Milton A. Rothman. Upon adjournment, the members retired to the back room for refreshments. - mar THIS WEEK BOOSTS SCIENCE-FICTION (continued from page 49, column 1) Astounding showing prophetic trends in those mags, and with pics of "Space Expert" Campbell and of Dr. Herman Muller. Nobel prize winner, with his nose buried in the April 1939 Astounding. The Cosmic Reporter edited by Lane Stannard The Murder of the USA by Will F. Jenkins has just come out in pocket-book form, published by Handi-Book Mystery, and selling for 20[cent]. Tho this book was judged as one of the best stf novel of 1946, when it appeared in Argosy as a two part serial, all publishers insist on calling it a "new kind of murder mystery". The flyleaf of the pocket-book states: "Will F. Jenkins has turned his pen to the problem of atomic war, has presented the probably defenses, and at the same time has created one of the most dramatic and exciting detective yarns ever written." Tho many of those handi-book mysteries are cut, The Murder of the USA is reprinted complete. -ls The new book, Man Against Myth, by Barrows Dunham, devotes a chapter to Korzybski and null-A.....but for the purpose of raking it over the coals. - mar
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