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Fantasy Fiction Field, June 1944
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M-4 and Mr. Goddard. The magazine has always been one of the publications closest to Mr. H eart's heart. Goddard, in 1912, approving of Merritt's work for him, offered "to take a chance on him for a year, if Merritt felt like taking the same chance on him." Merritt took the chance and became Goddard's assistant. In 1937 Goddard died suddenly and Merritt moved into his place as editor of The American Weekly, a post he has held ever since. Since that time The American Weekly has grown from a circulation of around 5,000,000 to approximately 8,000,000. It is carried now not only by the Hearst Sunday newspapers, but eight influential non-Hearst papers, perhaps the most important being the Cleveland Plain Dealer. Before Merritt took the post of full editor he had written seven novels, several short stories and a number of papers upon ethnological and archeological subjects. Most of which were either privately printed or are held in manuscript form for those interested. His books are "Moon Pool," "The Ship of Ishtar," "Seven Footprints to Satan," "The Metal Monster," "The Face in the Abyss," "Burn, Witch, Burn," and "Creep Shadow." A novelette, "The Woman of the Wood," has been reprinted many times here and abroad. Two of the books have been made into motion pictures. "Burn, Witch, Burn" was printed in America, in England, Holland, Spain, France and Russia. In all of his stories Merritt weaves much of what he has seen, heard and read of strange rites, of superstitions, of science, of religion. They are fantastic, but they are accurate and they are very unusual. Last fall, Merritt wrote a book upon philosophy and mechanism of feature making,as he sees it. It was not for sale, but was printed privately by The American Weekly and sent out as a Christmas gift to a great number of prominent gentlemen in the scientific, advertising and business worlds. The book was called, "The Story Behind the Story" and showed, often in lively fashion, how the formulas worked out in actual practice. It was so well received that the edition of 10,000 was soon almost exhausted. It was very popular with the schools of journalism at various universities and colleges, which are rapidly absorbing the few copies that are left. Merritt has many interests. Outside of his editorship he is most interested in horticulture, especially sub-tropical. This is no fad, no passing hobby. H e is definitely and seriously interested and is an expert. He has one experimental farm near [Clearwater?] where he has planted the first olive g roves in Florida. On this place he also has some 200 varieties of trees and plants, food bearers, largely from South and Central America, but others from Africa, Asia and Australia. Here also he is experimenting with some 50 Foijoa plants from Brazil, which bear a delicious fruit and whose flowers are the only edible flowers known. Here, too, he is growing the Cherimoya, another delicious but little known fruit.
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M-4 and Mr. Goddard. The magazine has always been one of the publications closest to Mr. H eart's heart. Goddard, in 1912, approving of Merritt's work for him, offered "to take a chance on him for a year, if Merritt felt like taking the same chance on him." Merritt took the chance and became Goddard's assistant. In 1937 Goddard died suddenly and Merritt moved into his place as editor of The American Weekly, a post he has held ever since. Since that time The American Weekly has grown from a circulation of around 5,000,000 to approximately 8,000,000. It is carried now not only by the Hearst Sunday newspapers, but eight influential non-Hearst papers, perhaps the most important being the Cleveland Plain Dealer. Before Merritt took the post of full editor he had written seven novels, several short stories and a number of papers upon ethnological and archeological subjects. Most of which were either privately printed or are held in manuscript form for those interested. His books are "Moon Pool," "The Ship of Ishtar," "Seven Footprints to Satan," "The Metal Monster," "The Face in the Abyss," "Burn, Witch, Burn," and "Creep Shadow." A novelette, "The Woman of the Wood," has been reprinted many times here and abroad. Two of the books have been made into motion pictures. "Burn, Witch, Burn" was printed in America, in England, Holland, Spain, France and Russia. In all of his stories Merritt weaves much of what he has seen, heard and read of strange rites, of superstitions, of science, of religion. They are fantastic, but they are accurate and they are very unusual. Last fall, Merritt wrote a book upon philosophy and mechanism of feature making,as he sees it. It was not for sale, but was printed privately by The American Weekly and sent out as a Christmas gift to a great number of prominent gentlemen in the scientific, advertising and business worlds. The book was called, "The Story Behind the Story" and showed, often in lively fashion, how the formulas worked out in actual practice. It was so well received that the edition of 10,000 was soon almost exhausted. It was very popular with the schools of journalism at various universities and colleges, which are rapidly absorbing the few copies that are left. Merritt has many interests. Outside of his editorship he is most interested in horticulture, especially sub-tropical. This is no fad, no passing hobby. H e is definitely and seriously interested and is an expert. He has one experimental farm near [Clearwater?] where he has planted the first olive g roves in Florida. On this place he also has some 200 varieties of trees and plants, food bearers, largely from South and Central America, but others from Africa, Asia and Australia. Here also he is experimenting with some 50 Foijoa plants from Brazil, which bear a delicious fruit and whose flowers are the only edible flowers known. Here, too, he is growing the Cherimoya, another delicious but little known fruit.
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