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...Vogt for his short story "Final Command." As the magazine's readers are used to adventures in time & space, Editor John W. Campbell Jr. did not think Reader Hoen soft-witted. He printed Hoen's letter in the November 1948 issue with the comment: "Hm-m-m-he must be off on another time track." But he also thought Hoen was on the track of a thoughtful, balanced plan for a good issue of Astounding Science Fiction, right down to authors and story titles. Quietly Editor Campbell set to work lining up the artists and authors...
Pont), Philadelphia's Röhm & Haas Co., and seven other officials of the two companies, of conspiring with Britain's Imperial Chemicals Industries, Ltd., and Germany's I. G. Farbenindustrie Akt., and Röhm & Haas, G.m.b.H., of Darmstadt, Germany, to operate a worldwide cartel in acrylic resins (Plexiglas, Lucite), used as windshields on airplanes, etc. They were accused of controlling the production, sale and price of these plastics and of dividing up the world markets...
...shrewd fellows like Dan Phillips or Bob Shepherd and bring your happiness cast instead of going west yourself. Don welcomed his fiancee, Miss Beth Bidwell, and her mother to old Boston last Saturday. The second thing Beth did was to remark how much Boston reminds her of San Francisco. Hm...
...invisible Oyarsa. But when at length they "met," Ransom found the god far from terrible. Oyarsa explained that eons ago Thulcandra, the earth, had been taken over by a satanic eldil with Hitleresque ambitions and had since lost touch with the rest of the solar system. Consequently hmãn had lost the virtues of the other inhabited planets - the ability of hrossa, séroni and pfifltriggi to live happily together, each contributing his special mite to the common good. Hmãn had also lost his willingness to welcome death as a beautiful redirecting of divine energy...
...three visitors back into their space ship. The séroni supplied air for a 90-day trip. Ransom returned to Thulcandra to take up his task of converting humans "from the conception of Space to the conception of Heaven," which, he felt, would prove quite a hmãn-size...