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...Crimson tomorrow will counter with a somewhat revised group of forwards. Second-string Jim Johnson, outstanding in the Cornell game, has been boosted way up to starting center forward. The former occupant of this position, Jon Spivak, will move over to inside right, and second-stringer Ted Wolf will start at outside right...
Into this world of science and sex this week stepped a new contender, the Magazine of Fantasy, a slickish, 35? quarterly. Published by the American Mercury's bustling Lawrence Spivak, who also runs radio's Meet the Press program and puts out a string of mystery publications, Fantasy is designed to lift imaginative fiction up to the level of the highest brows...
Fantasy is the idea of Anthony Boucher, 38, a top mystery writer (creator of Sister Ursula, the nun-detective) and J. Francis McComas, 39, onetime radio announcer and wonder-story writer. They will co-edit the new magazine. It took two years to fit Fantasy into Spivak's small operation, which requires a staff of only six to put out the unprofitable Mercury, the profitable Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine and 30 cut-down mystery reprints a year...
...Spivak hopes the new magazine will do for fantasy and science fiction what his Ellery Queen (which he says has a 200,000 circulation) has done for the short detective story...
...Harvard lineup: Batchelder, g; Drake, rfb; Scully, lfb; Berger, rhb; Miller, lhb; Goldstein, or; Drehmel, ir; Spivak, cf; Weiss, il; Harvey...