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...California Institute of Technology, Pierce. 50, studied chemical engineering, switched to aeronautics and then ("I got bored drawing rivets") to electronics. Holder of 55 electronics patents, Pierce has written three technical books and seven (under the pseudonym of J. J. Coupling), science-fiction stories. His first space-fiction yarn, written in high school, described the abduction of New York's Woolworth Building by aliens from Outer Space...
...yarn, skillfully embroidered by Producer-Director George Pal and Scriptwriter David Duncan, brings up to date H. G. Wells's 1895 romance. Disheartened by the alarms of his time-Boer War news is bad-an idealistic London inventor, agreeably acted by Rod Taylor, constructs a machine able to move about in time (it bears a plaque reading "Manufactured by H. George Wells"). He invites some incredulous friends to hear his adventures at a dinner five days hence, then eases the throttle forward in search of peace and good will...
Miller's yarn, first published as a highly effective short story, follows three Western drifters in their pursuit of wild horses as they force the mustangs out of mountain passes by terrifying them with a low-swooping airplane, eventually trap them for sale as dog meat. Two of the "mustangers" refer to a vaguely mutual mistress named Roslyn. In the movie version, Roslyn has moved to the center and become, by the author's admission, a closely personal portrait of his wife...
...horizon, but not without occasional whimsical excursions into island fun. ?No one could be really sure what would appear on April Fools' Day. Allen once ran a great hoax about the remains of a Viking Ship being uncovered in the sands off Waimanalo Beach, a completely phony yarn that other island newspapers cheerfully picked up and ran straight. The paper periodically loved to "discover" enormous new volcanoes rising from the sea off some isolated island beach...
...delivered to the clinic after Hilary Belloc had left, and was placed in a Dixie cup. Outside the park, Belloc heard that part of his finger had arrived back inside, tried to re-enter Candlestick by telling a gateman his story. The reply: "That's the best yarn I've heard today." Turned away, Belloc got in a cab. Meanwhile, the clinic realized that it had no one to put the finger on. The clinic dispatched a motorcycle patrolman, with finger in Dixie cup, after Belloc's cab. Finger retrieved, Belloc went to a hospital...