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...shellburst in Italy last week killed a terrific character. Frederick Schiller Faust, 51, was serving as correspondent for Harper's. But "Heinie" Faust was, more notably, the incredibly prolific "King of the Pulps" who wrote westerns, romances, whodunits and cinema stories under the pseudonyms Max Brand, David Manning, George Owen Baxter, Evan Evans, Nicholas Silver, Hugh Owen, Frank Austin, George Challis, Walter C. Butler, John Frederick, Peter Henry Moreland, Lee Bolt, Dennis Lawton, Frederick Frost. Among his creations were Hollywood's Drs. Kildare and Gillespie, Horseman Destry, Secret Agent Anthony Hamilton, Silvertip the Outlaw...
Heinie Faust, the 17th U.S. war reporter killed on duty, started writing at 23 (as Max Brand), sold his first effort to Argosy. In the next 28 years he wrote some 30 million words-115 published books,* and an uncharted quantity of magazine material, including at least 350 serials and novelettes. For a dozen years he was all over Street & Smith's magazines; now & then a single issue had three or four Faust stories under different pseudonyms. In his most productive years Faust averaged two million words a year-at the pulp magazines' top rate...
...that Mr. Avery "put up quite a fight." Pleading the "war effort" is scarcely any excuse for this highhanded and dictatorial confiscation of a business property and this cynical violence upon the person of a respectable, though anti-New Deal, gentleman whose difficulties with Government bureaus do not necessarily brand him a common crook...
Chemotherapy. Doctors used to think that the tough-skinned tubercle bacillus would never succumb to a drug. But promin, diasone, promizole and the brand-new diaminodiphenylsulfone (all sulfa drugs) have showed good results against tuberculosis in guinea pigs, fair promise to human patients (TIME, Dec. 6). Drs. Horton Corwin Hinshaw and William H. Feldman, of the Mayo Clinic, told the Society that tuberculosis will probably succumb to a drug some day but that it is too early to evaluate any drug tried so far. For the sake of Europe, which is suffering a wartime tuberculosis increase, they urged that search...
Evenings they gather round a campfire and, to a jingly, woodsy brand of folk music, sing "come-all-yez" and tell tall tales of the timberland. Favorites are "The Breaking of the Northwest Boom" and "The Days of Paddy Gillis." Best line in "Paddy Gillis" runs: "They who spat upon their hands and pushed the forest back...