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Spacewarp, v. 5, issue 4, whole no. 28, July 1949
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TEA TIME H.S. WeaTheRbY (MEMBER, N.F.F.F.) [[illustration text]] Ray[[?]] Nelxon [[end illustration text]] LODGING in its socket, the bell seemed decayed when she pushed the button. Vera rapped. "Yes, Miss. Were you wanting light house-keeping?" The sweet old woman straightened an apron, freshly pressed, around her dumpy figure. Noting her unworldly naivete, Vera felt an irrational compulsion to slug the landlady with a gin bottle, but instead forced a smile, commercially Hollywood, a smile that a toothpaste manufacturer would have cherished. "I'd like a three-room apartment," she stated, with her bittersweet affectation. "I'm Vera Katz, formerly a child picture star and now at liberty." "Oh!" the crone rambled on. "you were in a stageplay at--" She reddened with embarassed confusion. "The Playhouse, here in Wilmington." Furiously, Vera covered the break. "Was only a try-out. We closed in two nights, in New York. Those critics--" (6)
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TEA TIME H.S. WeaTheRbY (MEMBER, N.F.F.F.) [[illustration text]] Ray[[?]] Nelxon [[end illustration text]] LODGING in its socket, the bell seemed decayed when she pushed the button. Vera rapped. "Yes, Miss. Were you wanting light house-keeping?" The sweet old woman straightened an apron, freshly pressed, around her dumpy figure. Noting her unworldly naivete, Vera felt an irrational compulsion to slug the landlady with a gin bottle, but instead forced a smile, commercially Hollywood, a smile that a toothpaste manufacturer would have cherished. "I'd like a three-room apartment," she stated, with her bittersweet affectation. "I'm Vera Katz, formerly a child picture star and now at liberty." "Oh!" the crone rambled on. "you were in a stageplay at--" She reddened with embarassed confusion. "The Playhouse, here in Wilmington." Furiously, Vera covered the break. "Was only a try-out. We closed in two nights, in New York. Those critics--" (6)
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