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Last week Crime Collector Lowall got what he called a "dream assignment." Ep Hoyt moved in Oldtimer (59) James Hale as city editor and moved 44-year-old Gene Lowall over to the new, specially tailored job of national "crime editor." His roving commission: to go anywhere in the U.S., cover any aspects of crime "likely to interest Post readers...
Except for a matter of dates, the letter to the editor of Street & Smith's Astounding Science Fiction (circ. 80,000) would have received no more attention than the next piece of fan mail. Writing in October 1948, 20-year-old Richard Hoen of Buffalo, N.Y. had told in detail what he liked & disliked about the issue of November...
Last week the November issue of Astounding Science Fiction came out, with almost the exact table of contents that Hoen had talked about a year ago. To Hoen, now a senior at Buffalo's Canisius College, Editor Campbell and his contributors sent an autographed copy. Said astounded Reader Hoen: "I'd forgotten all about my letter. They didn't even answer...
...grey day at Jamaica last week, Jockey Gordon Glisson booted home his 249th winner of the year. No other U.S. jockey was close to him in the race to ride the most winners of 1949.* Half an hour later, while Glisson was trying for No. 250, he got in a jam on the far turn and his mount stumbled. He was pitched out of the saddle and lay still in the dirt until the ambulance arrived...
...Last year, he rode (and lost) his first race at Ak-Sar-Ben track near Omaha. He struck his stride last winter at Santa Anita, where Oldtimer Eddie Arcaro decided during a race one day that the kid needed taking down a notch. Said Arcaro later: "I rode up even with him and looked him in the eye. He looked right back at me, cold as you please-and first thing I knew I'd been beaten." Glisson won the $100,000-added Santa Anita Derby on Old Rockport, became the long-shot darling of the California bettors, then...