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Said MacArthur, on his return to New York: "It was a short but delightful trip. I revisited the scenes of my boyhood and saw many old friends...
Little by little the boy began to talk. His name was Louis Turini. No, his name was really Albert Santos. But they had misunderstood in the Army and put him down as Albert Thomas. Now he was AWOL-two weeks AWOL. He complained about his divorced parents, his boyhood in Boston's slums. He babbled in bewildered tones about a girl. "My girl ran off with a musician. He smokes marijuana. I know she's ruined...
...parody of previous space operas: Otho, first ambassador from Philistia, reaches Washington in a rocket ship easily enough, then gets into trouble with the girls because of his X-ray eyes. In Blind Alley, rich and nostalgic Mr. Feathersmith hires the devil to restore the home town of his boyhood, but soon realizes that life in good old Cliffordsville was really a tedious bore. In Hiding, selected as the most popular story in Astounding Science Fiction in 1948, is perhaps the real tipoff on the new trend: it is a fairly quiet story of a psychiatrist's effort...
...Knew Freud Few psychiatrists ever took Sigmund Freud as calmly as did James Tucker Fisher. Perhaps it was his background. Fisher spent the best years of his boyhood in the saddle herding cattle on an Illinois farm, did not learn to read & write until he was 13, dropped out of M.I.T., made a fortune in San Diego real estate, became a veterinarian, and decided not to practice the profession when a proper Bostonian lady refused to marry a "horse doctor." So Fisher went to Harvard, got his M.D. and became a mind doctor...
Fred liked to play poker ("He played them close to his chest," says a boyhood chum), drink beer and drive a car at breakneck speed. After graduation, when his father took a fling at making autos, Fred helped him turn out a few of his four-and six-cylinder Republics before they gave it up. But it taught Fred about engines, and when, at 30, he was commissioned a ist lieutenant in World War I, the Army made him an aircraft-engine inspector. He was sent to New Brunswick, N.J., where Wright-Martin was making the famed Hispano-Suiza engine...