Doc Savage was an American pulp magazine published from 1933 to 1949 by
Street & Smith. The lead character was Clark Savage, a scientist and
adventurer. Lester Dent wrote most of the novels that appeared in the
magazine, often using the alias "Kenneth Robeson". A few dozen more
novels were ghost-written by writers hired either by Dent or by Street &
Smith. Dent's work was full of inventive ideas, and ranged across
multiple genres. Science fiction elements were common, but there were
also detective novels, westerns, fantasies, and straightforward
adventures. Dent worked with Henry Ralston and (until 1943) John
Nanovic, two editors at Street & Smith, to plot most of the novels.
Covers were painted by Walter Baumhofer until 1936, then by R. G.
Harris and later by Emery Clarke. The magazine was successful, reaching
a circulation of 300,000, but was shut down when Street & Smith left the
pulp magazine field completely in 1949. The novels were later reprinted
as paperbacks.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doc_Savage_%28magazine%29>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1915:
A category 4 hurricane made landfall in Galveston, Texas,
leaving at least 275 people dead and causing $50 million in damage.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1915_Galveston_hurricane>
1943:
Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt met in a highly
secret military conference held in Quebec City.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Quebec_Conference>
1945:
Animal Farm, George Orwell's satirical allegory of Soviet
totalitarianism, was first published.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_Farm>
1959:
American musician Miles Davis released Kind of Blue, which
became one of the best-selling and most critically acclaimed jazz
recordings of all time.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kind_of_Blue>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
phial:
1. (dated) A bottle or other vessel for containing a liquid; originally
any such vessel, especially one for holding a beverage; now
(specifically), a small, narrow glass bottle with a cap used to hold
liquid chemicals, medicines, etc.
2. (transitive) To keep or put (something, especially a liquid) in, or
as if in, a phial (noun sense).
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/phial>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
What matters in the end in literature, what is always there, is
the truly good. And — though played out forms can throw up miraculous
sports like The Importance of Being Earnest or Decline and Fall — what
is good is always what is new, in both form and content. What is good
forgets whatever models it might have had, and is unexpected; we have to
catch it on the wing.
--V. S. Naipaul
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/V._S._Naipaul>
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