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51-684: In 1886, McClure's college friend, John Sanborn Phillips, joined the Syndicate, and his cousin, Henry Herbert McClure, was also on the staff. Samuel McClure's brother, Robert McClure, was in charge of the London office. Allen Sangree had a position with the McClure Syndicate in 1892. In 1914, the McClure family sold the Syndicate to J. C. Brainard, who acquired the Wheeler Syndicate in 1916. Brainard sold

102-564: A Bantam Books "Star Trek Fotonovel" in 1978). The latter featured the first appearance of pon farr , the Vulcan mating ritual, the sentence "Live long and prosper" and the Vulcan hand symbol . Sturgeon also wrote several more Star Trek scripts that were never produced. One of these first introduced the Prime Directive . Sturgeon also wrote an episode of the Saturday morning show Land of

153-737: A 1971 story collection entitled Sturgeon Is Alive and Well... addressed Sturgeon's seeming withdrawal from the public eye in a tongue-in-cheek manner. Two of his stories were adapted for the 1980s revival of The Twilight Zone . One, " A Saucer of Loneliness ", was broadcast in 1986 and was dedicated to his memory. Another short story, "Yesterday Was Monday", was the inspiration for The Twilight Zone episode " A Matter of Minutes ". Sturgeon played guitar and wrote music which he sometimes performed at science fiction conventions . He lived for several years in Springfield, Oregon . He died on May 8, 1985, of lung fibrosis , at Sacred Heart General Hospital in

204-463: A Green Monkey' [May 1957]", and sometimes put gay subtext in his work, such as the back-rub scene in " Shore Leave ", or in his Western story, "Scars". Carl Sagan later described "To Here and the Easel" (1954) as "a stunning portrait of personality disassociation as perceived from the inside", and further said that many of Sturgeon's works were among the "rare few science‐fiction novels [that] combine

255-655: A bulldozer in Puerto Rico , operating a filling station and truck lubrication center, work at a drydock ) for the US Army in the early war years, and by 1944 was an advertising copywriter. In addition to freelance fiction and television writing, in New York City he opened his own literary agency (which was eventually transferred to Scott Meredith ), worked for Fortune magazine and other Time Inc. properties on circulation, and edited various publications. Sturgeon initially had

306-578: A critic. He wrote approximately 400 reviews and more than 120 short stories, 11 novels, and several scripts for Star Trek: The Original Series . Sturgeon's science fiction novel More Than Human (1953) won the 1954 International Fantasy Award (for SF and fantasy) as the year's best novel, and the Science Fiction Writers of America ranked " Baby Is Three " number five among the " Greatest Science Fiction Novellas of All Time " to 1964. Ranked by votes for all of their pre-1965 novellas, Sturgeon

357-521: A daily comic panel, That Rookie from the Thirteenth Squad , for the McClure Syndicate, writing and drawing it from the front in France while serving as a first lieutenant in the 77th Division, AEF. The panel was collected into his first two books, That Rookie of the Thirteenth Squad (1917) and Between Shots (1919). The syndicate also introduced newspaper readers to the art of James Montgomery Flagg and

408-404: A journalist, with whom he had a son. Finally, his last long-term committed relationship was with writer and educator Jayne Englehart Tannehill, with whom he remained until the time of his death. She joined Sturgeon at book signings for his collection "Maturity", and signed as "Jayne Sturgeon". Englehart had her own biological son prior to her partnership with Sturgeon, to whom Sturgeon became like

459-572: A look-in." ... Quite a few of our old friends and acquaintances have left us Sid. Are Alan Sangree and Bill MacBeth still present? And is Bill Farnsworth still on that Atlanta paper? ..." Died March 2, 1924, in Trenton, N.J., after having been hospitalized for a breakdown two years earlier. A turn of the century (1900s) writer. 1892 he had a position with McClure's syndicate in New York and wrote for McClure's . "General DeWet and His Campaign,"

510-533: A possible connection to William Nelson Cromwell and the Panama Canal . Allen was unable to locate them, reported back to the editorial staff with no story and the assignment was crossed off. However Allen's investigation did appear to have stirred up William Nelson Cromwell 's PR staff who approached Caleb Van Hamm (the managing editor) and "demanded ... what the World meant by getting after his boss without giving him

561-694: A prep school and then Romance Languages Professor at Drexel Institute (later Drexel Institute of Technology ) in Philadelphia. Sturgeon's account of his stepfather is included in a posthumous memoir. Sturgeon's sibling, Peter Sturgeon , wrote technical material for the pharmaceutical industry and the WHO , and founded the American branch of Mensa . Upon graduating from high school in 1935, Sturgeon pleaded to be allowed to attend college, but his step-father refused to support him, citing his frivolity. The young Sturgeon held

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612-550: A somewhat irregular output, frequently suffering from writer's block . He sold his first story, "Heavy Insurance", in 1938 to the McClure Syndicate , which bought much of his early work. It appeared in the Milwaukee Journal on July 16th. At first he wrote mainly short stories, primarily for genre magazines such as Astounding and Unknown , but also for general-interest publications such as Argosy Magazine . He used

663-401: A standard science‐fiction theme with a deep human sensitivity". According to science fiction writer Samuel R. Delany , a friend of Sturgeon's, Sturgeon was bisexual. Though not as well known to the general public as contemporaries like Isaac Asimov or Ray Bradbury , Sturgeon became well known among readers of mid-20th-century science fiction anthologies. At the height of his popularity in

714-409: A stepfather. In 1965, Kurt Vonnegut devised the name of his fictional science-fiction writer Kilgore Trout as an obscure reference to Sturgeon's name. The two writers had become friends when Sturgeon moved to Truro, Massachusetts in 1957. Vonnegut described Trout as a notably unsuccessful writer, prolifically publishing hackwork only in pulp and pornographic magazines. Since the characterization

765-485: A wide variety of jobs. As an adolescent, he wanted to be a circus acrobat ; an episode of rheumatic fever prevented him from pursuing this. From 1935 (aged 17) to 1938, he was a sailor in the merchant marine , and elements of that experience found their way into several stories. He sold refrigerators door to door. He managed a hotel in Jamaica around 1940–1941, worked in several construction and infrastructure jobs (driving

816-561: Is a reference in the Congressional Record Briefly, Mr. Brownell sent Allen Sangree to Maine last February or March to assist Dr. Crockett in preparing the book on Gompers' career in Maine.... Theodore Sturgeon Theodore Sturgeon ( / ˈ s t ɜːr dʒ ən / ; born Edward Hamilton Waldo , February 26, 1918 – May 8, 1985) was an American fiction author of primarily fantasy , science fiction , and horror , as well as

867-432: Is one of the distinguished men who risked their lives to present to the world a vivid account of what many military men believe to be the most wonderful campaign ever fought in any age." Portions of Mr. Sangree's article are extremely pathetic. He speaks of the young Burghers, "many of them mere school children whose astonishing adventures will scarcely be believed by posterity," who will nevertheless, "go down in history as

918-513: Is the title of a well-written and beautifully Illustrated article in the May number of The Cosmopolitan. To quote the editor of this magazine: "Nothing which has appeared in The Cosmopolitan for a long time will be received with as much interest as this authentic picture of General De Wet, the strategist, and his campaign. Mr. Allen Sangree, who was with General De Wet in a large number of his campaigns,

969-521: The Black Widowers . In 1959, Sturgeon moved to Truro, Massachusetts where he met and became friendly with a then unknown Kurt Vonnegut, Jr . (Sturgeon was the inspiration for the recurrent character of Kilgore Trout in Vonnegut's novels. ) In 1959, he began to write book reviews for National Review , and continued until 1973. Sturgeon ghost-wrote one Ellery Queen mystery novel, The Player on

1020-521: The Church of Scientology in 1953). Sturgeon was "audited" by Campbell himself, and according to Alec Nevala-Lee , he became more devoted to it than any other science fiction writer other than A.E. van Vogt . He became a trained auditor and defended the Church for decades. Sturgeon published the "first stories in science fiction which dealt with homosexuality, ' The World Well Lost ' [June 1953] and 'Affair with

1071-624: The pen name "E. Waldo Hunter" when two of his stories ran in the same issue of Astounding . A few of his early stories were signed "Theodore H. Sturgeon". Although the bulk of Sturgeon's short story work dated from the 1940s and '50s, his original novels were all published between 1950 and 1961. Disliking arguments with John W. Campbell over editorial decisions, Sturgeon only published one story in Astounding after 1950. He did, however, take very seriously Campbell's enthusiasms for psionics and for L. Ron Hubbard 's Dianetics (even before it became

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1122-536: The 1950s he was the most anthologized English-language author alive. Three Sturgeon stories were adapted for the 1950s NBC radio anthology X Minus One : " A Saucer of Loneliness " (broadcast twice), "The Stars Are the Styx" and "Mr. Costello, Hero". Sturgeon was a member of the all-male literary banqueting club the Trap Door Spiders , which served as the basis of Isaac Asimov 's fictional group of mystery solvers

1173-686: The Giants and the Highlanders then the lamb ever stuck to Mary, there will be little of straight baseball or the humorous incident characteristic of the game that readers of the Evening World will miss. In fact, Mr. Sangree and Mr. Bulger are sure to knock out a home run every day. Started writing as one of the featured baseball writers for the New York Evening World on March 11, 1905 Allen Sangree, newspaper man, author, world-wanderer, and one of

1224-503: The Lost , " The Pylon Express ", in 1975. His 1944 novella Killdozer! was the inspiration for the 1974 made-for-TV movie , Marvel comic book, and alternative rock band of the same name, as well as becoming the colloquial name for Marvin Heemeyer 's 2004 bulldozer rage incident. Though Sturgeon continued to write through 1983, his work rate dipped noticeably in the later years of his life;

1275-561: The McClure Syndicate to Richard H. Waldo in 1928. After Waldo died in 1943, his widow, Adelaide P. Waldo, ran the syndicate for three years, passing it on to James L. Lenahan in 1946. Lenahan's failure to meet a due payment on the stock led to a September 1952 auction when it was acquired by Ernest Cuneo , head of the Bell Syndicate - North American Newspaper Alliance group, with Louis Ruppel installed as president and editor. The company briefly dabbled into comic book production in 1936 under

1326-575: The McClure strips were reprinted during the 1930s in Funnies on Parade . In addition to comic strips and feature articles, McClure also syndicated books and stories. In 1938, Theodore Sturgeon sold his first story to the McClure Syndicate, which bought many of his early, mainstream stories before he became known for his science fiction. In the late 1930s, the company was located at 75 West Street in New York City. Allen Sangree Allen Luther Sangree , also as Allan or Alan (c. 1878 – March 2, 1924)

1377-564: The Other Side (Random House, 1963). This novel was praised by critic H. R. F. Keating : "[I] had almost finished writing Crime and Mystery: The 100 Best Books , in which I had included The Player on the Other Side  ... placing the book squarely in the Queen canon" when he learned that it had been written by Sturgeon. Similarly, William DeAndrea, author and winner of Mystery Writers of America awards, selecting his ten favorite mystery novels for

1428-440: The attainment of this literature is represented in this bright, clever and interesting volume from the pen of Mr. Sangree Poet "Your Old Uncle Sam", which was put to the music of "The Old Grey Mare" There is a reference to Allen Sangree in the papers of Samuel Gompers where a friend, writes ... The Manufacturer's Association has organized a "Secret Service" system, the business of which will be to procure information as to

1479-584: The book) that were previously published in a Sturgeon collection. The following six collections consisted entirely of reprints of previously collected material: North Atlantic Books released the chronologically assembled The Complete Short Stories of Theodore Sturgeon , edited by Paul Williams . The series consisted of 13 volumes published between 1994 and 2010. Introductions were provided by Harlan Ellison , Samuel R. Delany , Kurt Vonnegut , Gene Wolfe , Connie Willis , Jonathan Lethem , and others. Extensive story notes were provided by Paul Williams and, in

1530-440: The bravest of the brave." Speaking of De Wet an author says: "Compared with his achievements, those of Baden-Powell or Kitchener are like a burning match dropped in the ocean." The fundamental reason for the popularity of the game is the fact that it is a national safety valve. Voltaire says that there are no real pleasures without real needs. Now a young, ambitious and growing nation needs to "let off steam." Baseball furnishes

1581-454: The cleverest pencillers who ever sat behind the wired screen at a baseball game, is a happy husband today ... Married Kate Bradley (1888–1952) on November 4, 1905 On October 2, 1908 Allen Sangree was asked by William McMutrie Speer (a member of the editorial staff of the New York World ) via the city editor George Carteret, to locate some Panamanians who had recently came to town with

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1632-461: The early cartoons of Clare Victor Dwiggins and Rube Goldberg . After employment as a newspaperman in Arizona, California and Hawaii, Harold Matson worked for the McClure Syndicate as a roving correspondent and became managing editor by 1930. Matson later became a literary agent to some of the most illustrious authors in the world. Sheldon Mayer also joined the Syndicate as an editor in 1936. Some

1683-497: The first "behind the news" column from Washington, along with columns on fashions, interior decorating and international affairs, as well as a column by Calvin Coolidge . In the 1930s, the syndicate distributed a number of " Whirligig " columns: Louis M. Schneider's Financial Whirligig , Frederic Sondern's European Whirligig , Ray Tucker's Washington Whirligig , and National Whirligig (1934–1936). One early McClure comic strip artist

1734-542: The former statement is now widely referred to as Sturgeon's Law. He is also known for his dedication to a credo of critical thinking that challenged all normative assumptions: "Ask the next question." This was the subject of an essay published in Cavalier Magazine in June 1967. He represented this credo by the symbol of a Q with an arrow through it, an example of which he wore around his neck and used as part of his signature in

1785-488: The habits of labor leaders, and for the purpose of obtaining evidence of something of a criminal character against such leaders. I am informed that they are particularly anxious to get something on you.... A man named Allen Sangree is the general manager, and the information that I have is that he has fifty men employed under him. This Mr. Sangree was formerly employed on the New York Journal as its "Sporting Editor" There

1836-538: The last 15 years of his life. Sturgeon was married three times, had two long-term committed relationships outside of marriage, divorced once, and fathered a total of seven children. His first wife was Dorothe Fillingame (married 1940, divorced 1945) with whom he had two daughters. He was married to singer Mary Mair from 1949 until an annulment in 1951. In 1953, he wed Marion McGahan with whom he had two sons and two daughters. In 1969, he began living with Wina Golden,

1887-402: The leadership of Max Gaines, where partnered with Dell Publishing , to produce three of Dell's comic books, The Funnies , Popular Comics and The Comics , and Dell would finance and distribute these comics, until Gaines quit McClure to start All-American Publications in 1939. As America's first profitable literary syndicate, the company bought an author's work for about $ 150 and then sold

1938-589: The magazine Armchair Detective , picked The Player on the Other Side as one of them. He said: "This book changed my life ... and made a raving mystery fan (and therefore ultimately a mystery writer) out of me. ... The book must be 'one of the most skillful pastiches in the history of literature. An amazing piece of work, whomever did it'." Sturgeon wrote the screenplays for the Star Trek: The Original Series episodes " Shore Leave " (1966) and " Amok Time " (1967, written up and published as

1989-537: The neighboring city of Eugene . He had been a lifelong pipe smoker and his death from lung fibrosis may have been caused by exposure to asbestos during his merchant marine years. John Clute wrote in The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction : "His influence upon writers like Harlan Ellison and Samuel R. Delany was seminal, and in his life and work he was a powerful and generally liberating influence in post-WWII US sf". He won comparatively few genre awards; one

2040-460: The opportunity. Therefore, it is a real pleasure.... That is what baseball does for humanity. It serves the same purpose as a revolution in Central America or a thunderstorm on a hot day.... A tonic, an exercise, a safety-valve, baseball is second only to Death as a leveler. So long as it remains our national game, America will abide no monarchy, and anarchy will be too slow Mr. Allen Sangree,

2091-511: The original editions only. The following table includes sixteen volumes (one of them collecting western stories). These are considered "original" collections of Sturgeon material, in that they compiled previously uncollected stories. However, some volumes did contain a few reprinted stories: this list includes books that collected only previously uncollected material, as well as those volumes that collected mostly new material, but also contained up to three stories (representing no more than half

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2142-576: The right to print it to a newspaper for five dollars. The company lost money during its first few years, eventually turning a profit while distributing and promoting such American luminaries as George Ade , John Kendrick Bangs , William Jennings Bryan , Joel Chandler Harris , William Dean Howells , Fannie Hurst , Sarah Orne Jewett , Jack London , Theodore Roosevelt , Mark Twain and Woodrow Wilson . The roster of British writers included G. K. Chesterton , Arthur Conan Doyle , Rudyard Kipling , Robert Louis Stevenson and H. G. Wells . McClure carried

2193-561: The trouble between Great Britain and the South Africa Republic prior to the Boer war . He reported for Collier's during the Boer War as well as for Cosmopolitan ... Incidentally the favorite baseball paper this summer, if merit counts in making popularity, will be the Evening World. With the best baseball men in the country, Allen Sangree and Bozeman Bulger , sticking closer to

2244-440: The well-known sporting writer, has made a most valuable addition to baseball literature by his recent volume of tales from the diamond. This attractive little book published by the G. W. Dillingham Co., contains seven thrilling stories which embody in full measure, all the fire and dash and enthusiasm of the great game they typify. ... It is most fitting that baseball should have a literature all its own, and no inconsiderable step in

2295-699: Was Carl Thomas Anderson , who drew Herr Spiegelberger, the Amateur Cracksman beginning in 1903. In 1916, McClure purchased the Wheeler Syndicate from John Neville Wheeler . Another early comic strip artist with McClure was Percy Crosby . Commissioned a second lieutenant in the Officer Reserve Corps in 1916 and being called to active service the following year, Crosby was in training at a camp in Plattsburgh, New York. While in training, Crosby created

2346-511: Was second among authors , behind Robert Heinlein . The Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame inducted Sturgeon in 2000, its fifth class of two dead and two living writers. Sturgeon was born Edward Hamilton Waldo in Staten Island, New York , in 1918. His name was legally changed to Theodore Sturgeon at age eleven after his mother's divorce and subsequent marriage to William Dicky ("Argyll") Sturgeon. Theodore's birth father, Edward Waldo,

2397-399: Was a color and dye manufacturer of middling success. With his second wife, Anne, he had one daughter, Joan. Theodore's mother, Christine Hamilton Dicker (Waldo) Sturgeon, was a well-educated writer, watercolorist, and poet who published journalism, poetry, and fiction under the name Felix Sturgeon. His stepfather, William Dickie Sturgeon (sometimes known as Argyll), was a mathematics teacher at

2448-541: Was an American sports writer and war journalist. Father: Milton H. Sangree, Mother: Jane E. Hudson. Born around 1878, most likely in the area of Harrisburg or Steelton, Pennsylvania . Attended Gettysburg College (class of 1892) Member of the Sigma Chi Theta fraternity On the staff of the New York Sun some time around 1896 With the New York World as a correspondent traveling to Africa reporting on

2499-414: Was hired to write novelizations of the following movies based on their scripts (links go to articles about the movies): Sturgeon published numerous short story collections during his lifetime, many drawing on his most prolific writing years of the 1940s and 1950s. Note that some reprints of these titles (especially paperback editions) may cut one or two stories from the line-up. Statistics herein refer to

2550-474: Was the World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement from the 1985 World Fantasy Convention. In 1957, Sturgeon coined what is now known as Sturgeon's Law : Ninety percent of [science fiction] is crud, but then, ninety percent of everything is crud. This was originally known as Sturgeon's Revelation ; Sturgeon has said that "Sturgeon's Law" was originally Nothing is always absolutely so. However,

2601-595: Was unflattering, it was not until after Sturgeon's death that Vonnegut explicitly acknowledged the connection; he stated in a 1987 interview that "Yeah, it said so in his obituary in The New York Times . I was delighted that it said in the middle of it that he was the inspiration for the Kurt Vonnegut character of Kilgore Trout." In 2000, Vonnegut wrote an admiring introduction to Volume VII of The Complete Stories of Theodore Sturgeon . Sturgeon, under his own name,

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