Word: gernsback
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Scientifiction, which deals almost exclusively with the world of tomorrow and life on other planets, was inspired by Jules Verne's and H. G. Wells's fantasies. Father of pseudo-scientific magazines was a shrewd, fat old man named Hugo Gernsback, an old-time radio fan, who in 1926 started Amazing Stories. It zoomed like a moonward rocket. Today the magazines in this prosperous publishing group (chiefly controlled by the big pulp firms of Street & Smith, Standard Magazines and Ziff-Davis), average about 150,000 readers apiece (sometimes much more), make a good living for many a shamo...
...York Edison Co. in 1929 when he protested a staff cut. For a short period later on he was president of the American Interplanetary Society, which propagandized the cause of sending rockets to the Moon. In 1932 he edited the only two issues of Technocracy Review, worked for Gernsback Publications through the summer...
...first television magazine appeared on newsstands last week. Edited and published by Hugo Gernsback, its title is Television News, 50c the copy...