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The Science Fiction Fan, v. 4, issue 10, whole no. 46, May 1940
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FAN ................................................................................13 [Centered] --- The rest you know. Somehow the reporters got hold of the story and played it up for all it was worth. At first they were a trifle in-credulous -- when they met Hugh Success and could find no rivets in his neck and no stitches, in his forehead--but they soon got used to this. There was talk of giving Hugh a movie contract - Universal made him a princely offer - but then it was thought better of. They had intended to use him in horror pictures, naturally. But when they got hold of a photograph of him they found they couldn't: he was too handsome. The police (who are great newspaper readers) came forth then and would have made trouble, but it was pointed out to them that 15 missing persons (including Murphy and the frosh) who had disappeared were all orphans,* and therefore no one had been worried much what became of them. Morden and the rest of us particularly were gratified with the report that appeared in Fan-tasy News, the leading scientific journal of the day. We wish to thank Editor T---- for his kind and excellent account, in his periodical of Sunday, December 26th, 1938, from which we quote the headline: [Centered text] "HUGH SUCCESS MADE POSSIBLE BY GOOD WORKING STAFF!!!" finis [Footnote] *I realize this is quite a coincidence. Here you, the reader, have been sailing smoothly along, frowning a bit, perhaps, at the everyday-ness and prosaic realism of the story, when suddenly you bump into these 15 orphans. (It is
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FAN ................................................................................13 [Centered] --- The rest you know. Somehow the reporters got hold of the story and played it up for all it was worth. At first they were a trifle in-credulous -- when they met Hugh Success and could find no rivets in his neck and no stitches, in his forehead--but they soon got used to this. There was talk of giving Hugh a movie contract - Universal made him a princely offer - but then it was thought better of. They had intended to use him in horror pictures, naturally. But when they got hold of a photograph of him they found they couldn't: he was too handsome. The police (who are great newspaper readers) came forth then and would have made trouble, but it was pointed out to them that 15 missing persons (including Murphy and the frosh) who had disappeared were all orphans,* and therefore no one had been worried much what became of them. Morden and the rest of us particularly were gratified with the report that appeared in Fan-tasy News, the leading scientific journal of the day. We wish to thank Editor T---- for his kind and excellent account, in his periodical of Sunday, December 26th, 1938, from which we quote the headline: [Centered text] "HUGH SUCCESS MADE POSSIBLE BY GOOD WORKING STAFF!!!" finis [Footnote] *I realize this is quite a coincidence. Here you, the reader, have been sailing smoothly along, frowning a bit, perhaps, at the everyday-ness and prosaic realism of the story, when suddenly you bump into these 15 orphans. (It is
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