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...living creatures were lifted up from the earth, the wheels were lifted . . . And when they went. I heard the noise of their wings, like the noise of great waters." Above them hovered "the likeness of a throne," on which sat "the appearance of a man"-obviously, to Science-Fictionist Orton. a landing craft sent out by an orbiting mother ship...
...Marshall, 44, a onetime pulp-fictionist whose earlier bedroom gambol, Kitty, was turned into a bland costume piece by Hollywood, wrote her first novel (30 pages) at seven. Its conclusion: "He gazed into her eyes and said, 'Will you marry me?' Only the stars heard the answer as they crept under the bushes." No such childish restraint mars Duchess Hotspur...
...Scenarist-Fictionist Raine (Tugboat Annie), who criticized Eire's refusal to let Britain use Irish ports as illogical and unrealistic, replies thus to Reader O'Malley's question: "NUAIR ITH-EANN NA H-EIRENNAIGH FEOIL DIA H-AOINE, IOSFAD I ACHT NIL AON GOILE AGAM DO MADADH FEOIL." Translation from the Gaelic: "When Catholic Eire eats flesh on Friday, so shall I- but I have a poor stomach for dog meat...
...story is by Fictionist-Sports Writer Paul Gallico, whose years on the sports desk of the New York Daily News doubtless make him a world authority on difficult newspaper temperaments...
...investigate this practice, the Ministerial Association of Los Angeles, representing 400 pastors and 485,000 church members, hired Fictionist Henry James O'Brien Bedford-Jones and Dr. U. L. Di Ghilini, onetime Florida drugless practitioner and professional student of "psychic phenomena." The investigators had little difficulty piling up evidence for the ministers, so amiable and obliging were the investigated. The office of one "mother church" was not downed by a request for an ordination certificate for "Rev. Drake Googoo," a "Persian clairvoyant with some stage experience." The certificate was procured for $10, and the Ministerial Association made front pages...