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#WilliamRScott, “The Town That Remembered”
‘Ever since my brother Allan came home from Korea, he’d been acting this funny way – soreheaded, Mr. Ellis called it – and none of us could figure out why. It was breaking mom’s heart’
*Collier’s*, Mar. 29, 1952
#PTSD #TranMawicke #1950s
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William R. Scott (1918-1992), “BIGMOUTH Number Thirteen”
‘It was as screwy a last will and testament as I’ve ever seen. The heir -that’s me – was at the mercy of a fish and a covetous girl’
*Collier’s* Oct. 4, 1952
#WilliamRScott #WeldonHill #ArthurSarnoff #illustrationart #1950s
full issue at https://archive.org/details/colliersmagazine ‘William R. Scott, 73, who wrote the bestseller “Onionhead” in the early 1950s under the pen name Weldon Hill. Scott already had had a successful career as an author of short stories and serials under his own name when he penned “Onionhead,” about a University of Oklahoma student who became a reluctant hero. It drew on Scott’s experience in the Coast Guard during World War II. The book was made into a movie starring Andy Griffith. A later novel, “The Long Summer of George Adams,” became a television movie starring James Garner. Scott’s last published novel was “The Iceman,” in 1976. In Norman, Okla., on Saturday after a lengthy illness.’ - https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1992-02-27-mn-4001-story.html
William R. Scott (1903–1976), “When You Come Home”
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‘It was a hard choice for George Alford. He had to decide between Honey and Sarah. And was his duty as a cop more important than friendship?’
*Collier’s* May 13, 1950
#WilliamRScott #illustrationartists #GlenFleischmann
full issue at https://archive.org/details/colliersmagazine
#WilliamRScott, “The Town That Remembered”
‘Ever since my brother Allan came home from Korea, he’d been acting this funny way – soreheaded, Mr. Ellis called it – and none of us could figure out why. It was breaking mom’s heart’
*Collier’s*, Mar. 29, 1952
#PTSD #TranMawicke #1950s
