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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...young farmer on his way from Syria to stay with an uncle, prettied up the 21-month-old baby her husband had not yet seen. In Montreal, Reporter Yves Jasmin, brother of one of Canada's outstanding French-language news editors, had happy news. "I had a letter from Guy," he told friends. "He and mother are expected to land in New York this week." Mrs. Jasmin had been making her first round-trip flight. Before she left, she had told a neighbor that she hoped "if anything was going to happen it would be on the westbound trip...
Except for a matter of dates, the letter to the editor of Street & Smith's Astounding Science Fiction (circ. 80,000) would have received no more attention than the next piece of fan mail. Writing in October 1948, 20-year-old Richard Hoen of Buffalo, N.Y. had told in detail what he liked & disliked about the issue of November...
...Fictioneer Robert A. Heinlein for his serial "Gulf" and A. E. van Vogt for his short story "Final Command." As the magazine's readers are used to adventures in time & space, Editor John W. Campbell Jr. did not think Reader Hoen soft-witted. He printed Hoen's letter in the November 1948 issue with the comment: "Hm-m-m-he must be off on another time track." But he also thought Hoen was on the track of a thoughtful, balanced plan for a good issue of Astounding Science Fiction, right down to authors and story titles. Quietly Editor...
...Fiction came out, with almost the exact table of contents that Hoen had talked about a year ago. To Hoen, now a senior at Buffalo's Canisius College, Editor Campbell and his contributors sent an autographed copy. Said astounded Reader Hoen: "I'd forgotten all about my letter. They didn't even answer...
Last week the American Civil Liberties Union raised an outraged voice. In a letter to Governor Lane, Playwright Elmer Rice, chairman of its National Council on Freedom from Censorship, branded the board's proposal "flagrantly unconstitutional." Said Rice: "If the ... board is to have the power to ban pictures because the subjects are not presented with truth and sincerity, there will be very few Hollywood productions indeed which could ever be shown. [If] censorship on this ground should be limited to documentary subjects, then the attempted restrictions on free speech become all the more obvious ... If the board...