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Acolyte, v. 3, issue 2, whole no. 11, Summer 1945
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1945 cont. June 17. Baby dinosaur appears in Times Square. Ulysses wins the Winterton Cup Race. Cleopatra wins a beauty contest. Shakespeare returns, and George Washington. Sir Galahad murders mobster. THE CASE OF THE BABY DINOSAUR, J.S.Klimaris, Fu 10-42 June. Unknown girl, suspected insane, found in Central Park; taken to Turber Hospital on Staten Island, private sanitarium of Dr. Turber, prominent private physician. THE SHADOW GIRL, Ray Cummings, SFQ #6 June. All civil hospitals and private doctors have disappeared from the world. TC, p. 47. June 20. George Alden and Roy Somers, attendants at Pontoon Four of the trans-Atlantic route, are missing. ELIXIR OF DOOM, Ray Cummings, TW 4-37 June 23. Discovery of wonder-stuff Plasticene, new material that lends itself admirably to a new technology of prefabrication. Any element or compound may be transformed into Plasticene at the cost of a mass loss of 90%. THE DWINDLING SPHERE, Willard E. Hawkins, A 3-40 June 27. Departure of the Haverfield moon rocket, the Astronaut, from an Arizona plain near Brewster. THE MOON CONQUERORS, R. H. Romans, SFQ #1 July 20. Wreck of the Astronaut seen on the moon, near a huge rock. Fears expressed for the safety of the earth-moon voyagers. IBID July 21. A huge sphere is seen from Earth to approach the wreck of the Astronaut, and to destroy it with a heat ray. Hope for the safety of the five voyagers given up. IBID (also in SWQ w30) July 25. Warfare between the men of Earth and the winged men of Mentor. mentor victorious. MEN WITH WINGS, Leslie Stone, AW 7-29 August. World War II is over; a devastated London is to be rebuilt. Quarrel among three factions: the Ups, who want modernistic, skyscraper London; the Downs, seeking safety by eschewing surface beauty for the bombproof underground; and the Outs, wishing large parks and a city where buildings don't quite appear squeezed in with a shoe horn. Quarrel settled by Ben Gleed, American efficiency expert, after he inadvertently throws London and vicinity into hysterical fear. THE FIEND OF NEW LONDON, Don Wilcox, Az 2-42 August. Moving stairways replace San Francisco's outmoded cable cars. THE ROADS MUST ROLL, Robert Heinlein, A 6-40 August. Establishment of a dot-dash code in communication between Earth and Mars. Beginning of attempts to set up intelligible communication. THE MOON MAIN, Edgar Rice Burroughs, 1926. Summer. Larry Stenson invents time machine. At this time Atlantic crossing takes 18 hours in air liner. THE TIME ANNIHILATOR, Manley and Thode, W 11-30 September. Josef Kelinev, violinist, turns his invention over to the government; work on it is started immediately. US fighting a losing war with United Asiatic Nations. THE SINGING DEATH, Ben Prout, Az 5-27 September. The surface of Earth is coated with an immeasurably thick sheath of ice; and man-kind has become accustomed to life in the caves between Earth and ice-sky. WINTER ON THE PLANET, Warner van Lorne, A 4-37 September. Dr. Ira Waldron of the NY Technological Society discovers life-rays from ekauranium; works them over until he is able to revive dead animals, provided that the period of temporary death does not exceed seven minutes and twenty-one seconds. Proceeds tested on dead man on World War II battlefield. THE TEST-TUBE GIRL, Frank Patton, Az 1-42 -- 22 --
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1945 cont. June 17. Baby dinosaur appears in Times Square. Ulysses wins the Winterton Cup Race. Cleopatra wins a beauty contest. Shakespeare returns, and George Washington. Sir Galahad murders mobster. THE CASE OF THE BABY DINOSAUR, J.S.Klimaris, Fu 10-42 June. Unknown girl, suspected insane, found in Central Park; taken to Turber Hospital on Staten Island, private sanitarium of Dr. Turber, prominent private physician. THE SHADOW GIRL, Ray Cummings, SFQ #6 June. All civil hospitals and private doctors have disappeared from the world. TC, p. 47. June 20. George Alden and Roy Somers, attendants at Pontoon Four of the trans-Atlantic route, are missing. ELIXIR OF DOOM, Ray Cummings, TW 4-37 June 23. Discovery of wonder-stuff Plasticene, new material that lends itself admirably to a new technology of prefabrication. Any element or compound may be transformed into Plasticene at the cost of a mass loss of 90%. THE DWINDLING SPHERE, Willard E. Hawkins, A 3-40 June 27. Departure of the Haverfield moon rocket, the Astronaut, from an Arizona plain near Brewster. THE MOON CONQUERORS, R. H. Romans, SFQ #1 July 20. Wreck of the Astronaut seen on the moon, near a huge rock. Fears expressed for the safety of the earth-moon voyagers. IBID July 21. A huge sphere is seen from Earth to approach the wreck of the Astronaut, and to destroy it with a heat ray. Hope for the safety of the five voyagers given up. IBID (also in SWQ w30) July 25. Warfare between the men of Earth and the winged men of Mentor. mentor victorious. MEN WITH WINGS, Leslie Stone, AW 7-29 August. World War II is over; a devastated London is to be rebuilt. Quarrel among three factions: the Ups, who want modernistic, skyscraper London; the Downs, seeking safety by eschewing surface beauty for the bombproof underground; and the Outs, wishing large parks and a city where buildings don't quite appear squeezed in with a shoe horn. Quarrel settled by Ben Gleed, American efficiency expert, after he inadvertently throws London and vicinity into hysterical fear. THE FIEND OF NEW LONDON, Don Wilcox, Az 2-42 August. Moving stairways replace San Francisco's outmoded cable cars. THE ROADS MUST ROLL, Robert Heinlein, A 6-40 August. Establishment of a dot-dash code in communication between Earth and Mars. Beginning of attempts to set up intelligible communication. THE MOON MAIN, Edgar Rice Burroughs, 1926. Summer. Larry Stenson invents time machine. At this time Atlantic crossing takes 18 hours in air liner. THE TIME ANNIHILATOR, Manley and Thode, W 11-30 September. Josef Kelinev, violinist, turns his invention over to the government; work on it is started immediately. US fighting a losing war with United Asiatic Nations. THE SINGING DEATH, Ben Prout, Az 5-27 September. The surface of Earth is coated with an immeasurably thick sheath of ice; and man-kind has become accustomed to life in the caves between Earth and ice-sky. WINTER ON THE PLANET, Warner van Lorne, A 4-37 September. Dr. Ira Waldron of the NY Technological Society discovers life-rays from ekauranium; works them over until he is able to revive dead animals, provided that the period of temporary death does not exceed seven minutes and twenty-one seconds. Proceeds tested on dead man on World War II battlefield. THE TEST-TUBE GIRL, Frank Patton, Az 1-42 -- 22 --
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