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...Jazz Hot," it is evident that swing is no more the equal brother of jazz and ragtime than "The Adventures of Ellery Queen" is the equal of the mystery stories, of Edgar Allen Poe. Poe conceived and executed his work with artistic style and taste, while the modern pulp writers often are obviously writing for five cents a word. In the same vein, it is true that "Mairzy Doats" is typical of a certain group of Americans in the twentieth century, and as such it may some day find its melody or spirit embodied in the serious composition Mr. Copland...
...material, including at least 350 serials and novelettes. For a dozen years he was all over Street & Smith's magazines; now & then a single issue had three or four Faust stories under different pseudonyms. In his most productive years Faust averaged two million words a year-at the pulp magazines' top rate of 4? a word. He once wrote Hollywood an Alaska story, but the studio needed a sarong scenario. Faust was back in five days, his story reset in the South Seas...
...shot. One, a civilian named Victor Marin, had been tortured all night to make him tell the names of his associates. He did not break down. When taken out for execution, both arms were broken, one eye gouged out, one shoulder dislocated, one knee smashed, his hand a bloody pulp. Asked a priest: "Victor, are you afraid of death?" "No, Father," he replied, "it is my body which trembles, not my spirit...
...among U.S. inventors as a bottomless well of incredible notions. For more than 30 years fantasies have come in such profusion from his brain that there is hardly a modern invention he cannot claim to have anticipated. The father of pseudo-scientific fiction, he has started a number of pulp magazines such as Amazing Stories, Wonder Stories, etc. As a radio magazine publisher, he has given laboratory workers some suggestive ideas. Gernsback himself has patented some 80 inventions, none of which, his admirers are proud to say, has ever proved of the slightest practical...
...Palermo harbor Reynolds found a destroyer (nickname: "The Mighty May") battered to a pulp, low in the water, listing badly. He boarded it and asked for the executive officer. A sailor said: "Who, Big Pancho? . . . That's him. The big guy in dungarees...