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The Reader and Collector, v. 2, issue 2, June 1941

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Shades of Baron Munschausen, Superman had better look to his laurels.

I'm going to watch the war news rather carefully these days. Some day I expect to read that a soldier leaped gracefully over the English Channel, took a couple of snappy steps across the Pyrenees, nonchalantly picked up the Rock of Gibraltar and tossed it over into Libya, hitting about twelve of the "Bum of Bums" regiments in their respective backs. After which the reporter will take another shot in the arm-- or perhaps a snifter of white powder.

FROM "DEATH WALKS IN WASHINGTON" IN "FANTASTIC ADVENTURES"    Volume 3, No. 2

"Suddenly my nostrils fluttered like the copper leaves in a Leyden Jar."

Guess I'll have to "brush up on my High School Physics. I tried to picture my nostrils fluttering like the leaves in a Leyden Jar, but its like hissing some of the words and sentences quoted previously; I just can't do it.

Could the embryo scientist who wrote "Death Walks in Washington" be thinking of an electroscope? For my piece of mind-- I hope so.

FROM "THE FUTURIAN REVIEW"     Volume 1, No. 1

"COMET is marked by a slovenlyness, sloppyness, and a generally indifferent manner.----The magazine is crammed full of typographical terrors. The letter column is a scream. & titles and authors are misspelled. There is really no excuse for this tyoe of thing. The psacing of paragraphs in stories is really horrifying and sickening."

You're a scream, Editor Conway; really you are. You had me rolling on the floor in histerycs. The period after scream; those mispelled authors; and them typographical errors. I just know you done it diliberate. You're a card, Roger, you really are.

FROM A BULLETIN OF "QUEENS OF SCIENCE FICTION LEAGUE"

"Science Fiction celebrities who will be present are Leo Margulies, Editorial Director of Thrilling Wonder and Startling Stories,---. 'Startling Stories' will be revived and discussed."

I don't think Editor Margulies will take very kindly to that statement. I don't believe he knows that his magazine is so "far gone."

What do you intend to use, Mr. Sykora? The prone-posture method or a pulmotor[[?]]?

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3. Shades of Baron Munschausen, Superman had better look to his laurels. I'm going to watch the war news rather carefully these days. Some day I expect to read that a soldier leaped gracefully over the English Channel, took a couple of snappy steps across the Pyrenees, nonchalantly picked up the Rock of Gibraltar and tossed it over into Libya, hitting about twelve of the "Bum of Bums" regiments in their respective backs. After which the reporter will take another shot in the arm-- or perhaps a snifter of white powder. FROM "DEATH WALKS IN WASHINGTON" IN "FANTASTIC ADVENTURES" Volume 3, No. 2 "Suddenly my nostrils fluttered like the copper leaves in a Leyden Jar." Guess I'll have to "brush up on my High School Physics. I tried to picture my nostrils fluttering like the leaves in a Leyden Jar, but its like hissing some of the words and sentences quoted previously; I just can't do it. Could the embryo scientist who wrote "Death Walks in Washington" be thinking of an electroscope? For my piece of mind-- I hope so. FROM "THE FUTURIAN REVIEW" Volume 1, No. 1 "COMET is marked by a slovenlyness, sloppyness, and a generally indifferent manner.----The magazine is crammed full of typographical terrors. The letter column is a scream. & titles and authors are misspelled. There is really no excuse for this tyoe of thing. The psacing of paragraphs in stories is really horrifying and sickening." You're a scream, Editor Conway; really you are. You had me rolling on the floor in histerycs. The period after scream; those mispelled authors; and them typographical errors. I just know you done it diliberate. You're a card, Roger, you really are. FROM A BULLETIN OF "QUEENS OF SCIENCE FICTION LEAGUE" "Science Fiction celebrities who will be present are Leo Margulies, Editorial Director of Thrilling Wonder and Startling Stories,---. 'Startling Stories' will be revived and discussed." I don't think Editor Margulies will take very kindly to that statement. I don't believe he knows that his magazine is so "far gone." What do you intend to use, Mr. Sykora? The prone-posture method or a pulmotor[[?]]?