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TIME, June 30, says that Buck Rogers was "created" 29 years ago by Robert C. Dille's father. In 1928 a story entitled Armageddon -2419 was published. The author of it was Phillip Francis Nowlan. Shortly thereafter, John Dille contacted Mr. Nowlan and asked him if he would be willing to have stories syndicated in strip form. Mr. Nowlan agreed, and changed the name of his principal character from Anthony Rogers to Buck Rogers. From then until his death in 1940, Mr. Nowlan was credited with being the creator and author of Buck Rogers, 25th Century. It was drawn...
...referred our young aberrations of mind and manners to an order of courtesy above us all ... He has kept before us the example of a classically educated intelligence . . . He is one of the first poets, in any language." Ransom has written poetry, one critic remarked admiringly, about "everything from Armageddon to a dead hen"; his language is quiet but barbed. Of a dead lady he wrote...
Stewart also contributes the only creative work of the issue, a sort of opium illusion called "A Mango For Emelina." Magnolia-mashed Colonel Ashcroft ("a memento of a dead nation's long ago Armageddon") stalks to a garden rendezvous with his boyhood love, Emelina. As he bends to kiss...
...Witnesses now have 700,000 members in 162 countries. "Our numbers have tripled in Poland in the last seven years," he said, "although we are banned and persecuted in all Iron Curtain countries." Witness growth he attributed to the sense of being faced by a "deadline"-the Battle of Armageddon, which Witnesses calculate will take place some time before...
...positive thinking, showed how "pathetic an expedient" it was when it collapsed completely upon Founder Frank B. Robinson's death in 1948. As for the doctrine of the ubiquitous Witnesses: "What response but horror can there be to this conversion of profound myth to lurid legend"-the bloody Armageddon which they eagerly anticipate between 1970 and 1980. The eclecticism of Unity (a self-help faith) and Baha'i (a world brotherhood offshoot of Islam) "amounts to metaphysical and theological hodgepodge. And the history of each involves bitterness and schism that matches anything in the church's story...