SHORT STORIES must have been the most instantly recognizable pulp with its Red Sun covers, and this issue sports a particularly good one by Edgar F. Wittmack. And a Pith Helmet Alert, to boot! The best-known authors inside are W.C. Tuttle and Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson. Henry Herbert Knibbs was pretty well-known in those days, I believe, but mostly forgotten now. Also in this issue are stories by Weed Dickinson (great name!), Homer King Gordon, Willard K. Smith, E.S. Pladwell, Russell Hays, Melvin Lostutter, and Larry Barreto, and if you're familiar with any of those guys and their work, you're ahead of me. But dang, that's a nice cover, and I'll bet most of the stories are pretty good, too.
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Weed Dickinson, Baseball writer on the New York Morning Telegraph, once began his story of a Giant defeat with an opening line: "Z'in da dirt! Z'in da dirt!"
I take this extract form: "The Baltimore Orioles: The History of a Colorful Team in Baltimore and St. Louis" by Fred Lieb, first published in 1955 by G.P. Putnam's Sons
Best,
Tiziano Agnelli (Italy)
Thanks! That's more than I knew about good old Weed.
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