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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Didn't you know that she's a pink, practically a red, and so is the whole organization? the FBI man asked...

Author: By William S. Fairfield, | Title: FBI's Activities Spread Fear at Yale | 6/4/1949 | See Source »

...Cohen considers himself a lucky man. He believes that without his strong friends on the faculty, he never would have had a chance. He was willing to forget the whole incident until he was confronted with a number of rumors. Then he let Provost Furniss know immediately that inquiries were being made...

Author: By William S. Fairfield, | Title: FBI's Activities Spread Fear at Yale | 6/4/1949 | See Source »

...next day, the professor appeared at Provost Furniss' office, deeply upset by the whole incident...

Author: By William S. Fairfield, | Title: FBI's Activities Spread Fear at Yale | 6/4/1949 | See Source »

...rocketed to the planet Venus to hunt xixtchil, a scarce, rejuvenating drug, searched desperately for a way to save himself and his lovely companion, Pat Burlingame. They had been backed into a fearsome dusky canyon by the "doughpot," one of the most monstrous creatures on the whole planet. A white mass of nauseous protoplasm weighing several tons, the doughpot had neither intelligence nor any fixed form: it just rolled itself instinctively toward anything edible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Never Too Old to Dream | 5/30/1949 | See Source »

Small publishing houses devoted to science fiction such as Weinbaum turned out have been mushrooming during the last few years, and the business as a whole appears to be on the upgrade. Most of them are three-or four-man affairs. The half-dozen or so outfits in the field each print anywhere from two to a dozen books a year. Press runs usually hover around 5,000. Yet such midget firms as Prime Press in Philadelphia, Fantasy Press in Reading, Pa. and Shasta Press in Chicago eke out profits from their small printings, for two reasons: 1) they keep...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Never Too Old to Dream | 5/30/1949 | See Source »

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