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...even offers a relaxing bit of science fiction ("The liquid blonde girl came toward him, smiling . . ."). The slick-paper Space Journal is flawed by wooden pictures, text that sometimes strays too far ahead of or behind the layman, and an overexposure of Huntsville's Spaceman Wernher von Braun. But it already shows improvement. For future numbers it has lined up articles from such experts as Air Force Balloonist Lt. Col. David Simons and Dr. Eugen Sanger. director of West Germany's Institute of Jet Propulsion Physics in Stuttgart...
...Spencer ("Billy") Isbell decided he could raise some cash for the local Rocket City Astronomical Association, Inc., by publishing a space magazine for laymen. Editor Isbell, 32, who had no publishing experience brought in ex-Newsman (Montgomery Advertiser) Ralph E. Jennings, 34 sometime ghost writer for Rocketeer von Braun. Working in off-hours, the two started one of the most unscientific countdowns in magazine launching. Isbell and Jennings simply guessed that 50? a copy was a fair price, decided that $200 was plenty high enough for a page...
...your March 3 issue, a striking contrast could be noted: Missile Expert Wernher von Braun earns $16,000 yearly; Comic Strip Artist Charlie (Peanuts) Schulz, who "somehow graduated from high school after flunking algebra, Latin, English, physics," makes a whopping $90,000 a year...
Compare Dr. von Braun's salary of $16,000 a year with the average annual income of $20,000 of a call girl (as noted in your March 3 Medicine story...
...congressional hearing, Missile Expert Wernher von Braun, asked about Atomic Physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, who four years ago was labeled a security risk and dropped as a Government consultant, replied: "The circumstances under which he was dismissed hurt the whole scientific community very badly ... I think the British would have knighted...