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...after 40 books and 15 million copies sold, Tom Swift went the way of such other grand heroes of boyhood as Frank Merriwell and the fun-loving Rover Boys. What finished the Tom Swift series was a combination of crushers which could as easily have done in Ulysses or Sir Lancelot. A world war and stranger-than-fiction real inventions had furnished competitive excitements that made Tom .seem a little archaic. The paper shortage did not help, and almost as disastrous was the decision of Author Victor Appleton, Tom's creator, to let his hero marry sweet, pert Mary...
...open-throttle British auto race for the $40 million export market to the U.S., Rootes Motors' hard-driving Sir William Rootes (Hillman Minx, Humber, Rover, Sunbeam-Talbot) had already knocked Austin out of second place. Last week Sir William claimed that he had overtaken Lord Nuffield,* was now shipping more cars to the U.S. than any other British maker. His total: 4,942 Rootes cars exported in the first half...
...propagandists or by permanent correspondents in Moscow, who sometimes sound the same (see below). They were the handiwork of a group of U.S. radiomen and newsmen who had unexpectedly been allowed to enter Russia. Mostly editors and publishers of small-town dailies and weeklies, they were aptly dubbed "The Rover Boys in Moscow" by the New York Post. They wrote about Moscow as if they had never seen a big city...
...these stories--which incidentally contain little pseudo-scientific jargon--there is another ingredient which seems to be exclusive to ASF. The scientists who write for it must be a very gloomy lot, for they groan continually about current life, and predict the unhappiest of futures. In Blood's A Rover (the May issue's lead yarn), for instance, the captain of a Process Corps takes us by the hand and shows how awful the Earth's historical development has been, how ridiculously evangelistic we Earthlings really are, and what is in store for us in a few millenia...
...rover in his youth, Peters went to Mexico at 35 as the agent of an Illinois doctor who had bought land near Loma Bonita, sight unseen, and wanted it fenced, cleared and planted. When the doctor's son later arrived to take over, Peters bought a nearby 200-acre tract for himself. Finding that wheat and other northern crops did poorly in the region's hot, dry climate, he made a trip to Tezonapa, 75 miles away, and brought back pineapple plants of the Cayenne variety. They did well. Peters brought in more plants...