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	Legendary Science Fiction: The Robert A. Heinlein Page
		Misfit, Requiem, The Roads Must Roll, Logic of Empire, Waldo, Coventry, By His Bootstraps, Blowups Happen, Solution Unsatisfactory, They, The Devil Makes the Law( alias Magic, Inc.), and many other stories belonged to the first ones and became what was later called The Future History.
		His first story, Lifeline, was published in the August edition, 1939, of Astounding.
		Virginia Heinlein died in her sleep after a long struggle with respiratory illness and a broken hip suffered on Thanksgiving, David M. Silver, secretary-treasurer of the Heinlein Society was cited in an obituary in the LA Times of January 26, 2003.
	www.luna-city.com /sf/rah.htm

	Literary Encyclopedia: Ellison, Ralph
		Ellison was still intent on writing his novel based on the short story “Flying Home,” when the words “I am an invisible man,&; serendipitously passed through his mind.
		Ralph Ellison’s short stories, as well as selected letters he exchanged with fellow writer Albert Murray, are collected in volumes entitled Flying Home and Other Stories (1996) and Trading Twelves (2000).
		Ralph Waldo Ellison has commented extensively on the effect that his name had on him, a name given to him by Lewis Ellison, who wanted his son to become a great man of letters like his namesake Ralph Waldo Emerson.
	www.literaryencyclopedia.com /php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=1420

	Waldo's Restaurant - The Driftwood Resort Vero Beach Florida - Rentals and Time Shares
		Waldo's son, Ralph, erected the four story building to the south in 1965, providing more apartment units.
		Waldo was especially fond of bells and amassed a collection of 250 various types and sizes.
		Waldo Sexton as a small resort hotel, and because of there not being any restaurant in the vicinity of the Driftwood Inn, Mrs.
	www.thedriftwood.com /rest.html (733 words)

	TCS
		The term was first used in a Robert Heinlein short story, which was about a disabled scientist named Waldo who managed to build devices that would amplify his strength.
		The appeal of the Waldo® is that it allows any single puppeteer or performer to control many multiple axes of movement on a synthetic character.
		Waldo®, Facial Waldo®, Body Waldo®, Warrior Waldo®, and any use of the term Waldo when referring to data-capture input devices are all trademarks of The Character Shop.
	www.character-shop.com /waldo.html (1091 words)

	Insomniak's Doomworld Forums Blog
		Waldo is a brash, rude young scientist, on the short list for the Prize.
		Over the course of the story, Iben becomes manipulated by Steve to break up Janet and Waldo, being led on with hints that if he is successful, he will win the Prize from Steve.
		Janet is a fellow scientist who is "stuck" with Waldo.
	www.doomworld.com /blog?user=Insomniak (2191 words)

	Herb Tank: Fast's 'Rachel' Makes a Nice Film
		Although the screenplay is hopped up a bit, Waldo Salt, who adapted it from the Fast short story, has managed to retain much of the quality of the original yarn.
		Norman Foster's direction is leisurely emphasizing the tender and human aspects of Rachel and The Stranger, and the lensing savors the rugged countryside that provides the film with a background of maintain country and forests.
		Even this kid, Gary Gray, comes across nicely without the too-cuteness permitted most child actors.
	www.trussel.com /hf/rachel.htm (419 words)

	Mr. Richard Whitney/7th Grade Language Arts
		Describe an essay as a short piece of writing on one subject or theme and provide an example, such as an essay by Ralph Waldo Emerson.
		7.3.1 - Discuss the purposes and characteristics of different forms of written text, such as the short story, the novel, the novella, and the essay.
		Example: Describe a short story as a piece of prose fiction usually under 10,000 words and provide an example, such as “The Night the Bed Fell” by James Thurber.
	www.ezwebsite.org /Page.asp?PID=2617 (419 words)

	Theodore Sturgeon
		Information about a play written by Lisa Morton based on Sturgeon's short story "The Graveyard Reader".
		Theodore Sturgeon was born Edward Hamilton Waldo on February 26, 1918, at Staten Island, New York.
		Sturgeon's story "Microcosmic God" may have been the basis of part of a Simpsons episode.
	www.physics.emory.edu /~weeks/misc/sturgeon.html (1903 words)

	THEODORE STURGEON - BOOK HELP WEB AUTHOR PROFILE
		Sturgeon became the shining star of short story writing amongst a crowded field.
		It was the year that four of the greats published their first short story: Isaac Asimov, Robert Heinlein, A.E. van Vogt, and Theodore Sturgeon.
		Theodore Sturgeon was born in 1918 in New York as Edward Hamilton Waldo.
	www.bookhelpweb.com /authors/sturgeon/sturgeon.htm (193 words)

	Heinlein in Dimension, Chapter 3, Part 2
		The other story is "Destination Moon," which was based on Heinlein's screenplay, and appeared in Short Stories Magazine in September 1950, just about the same time as the release of the movie.
		The first is "The Man Who Sold the Moon," a Future History story.
		The central character of "Requiem," Heinlein's third published story, was D.D. Harriman, the man who made space travel possible, whose dream was always to go to the Moon himself, but who was never able to go.
	www.panshin.com /critics/Dimension/hd03-2.html (3623 words)

	Star Seeker Future Sneak Previews
		The Scoop: Adapted from a short story written by Lisa Mason and published in Omni magazine in 1989 about the daughter of a NASA engineer who is badly burned in a car crash, so he convinces his superiors to test a skin graft on her using material of alien origin, with unforeseen consequences.
		The Scoop: Adapted from the popular series of children's puzzle books in which the reader is challenged to find Waldo in various llustrations, this film features the adventures of 30-year-old Waldo, a janitor and part-time inventor who travels through time and space.
		The Scoop: In a future where genetic alteration of animals is permitted, the Cerberus, a three-headed dog that guarded the gate to Hades in Greek mythology, escapes from a zoo exhibit and goes on a rampage throughout New York.
	www.starseeker.com /sneakup.htm (1693 words)

	Encyclopedia: The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
		Walter Mitty is a fictional character in James Thurbers short story The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, published in 1941.
		The Secret Life of Walter Mitty is a 1939 short story by James Thurber.
		It was a major inspiration to the partially-animated show The Secret Lives of Waldo Kitty.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/The-Secret-Life-of-Walter-Mitty (1587 words)

	Little Miss Marker
		He detests Winchell, who he satirizes as Waldo Winchester in some of the twenty-six short stories that become Hollywood movies, such as Little Miss Marker and Guys and Dolls.
		The author's sentimental side could be seen for example in the story 'Little Miss Marker' which was filmed in 1934, starring Shirley Temple.
		On loan to Paramount, she catapulted to international fame with Little Miss Marker, based on the classic Damon Runyon story.
	www.markerry.com /littlemissmarker (1178 words)

	Nightfall (Asimov)
		Nightfall is an influential science fiction short story by the late Isaac Asimov.
		According to Asimov's autobiography, Campbell ordered Asimov to write the story after discussing with him a quotation from Ralph Waldo Emerson :
		It was the 32nd story by Asimov, written while he was working in his father's candy store and studying in Columbia University.
	www.mcfly.org /wik/Nightfall_(Asimov) (1178 words)

	Theodore Sturgeon
		Science fiction author Ted Sturgeon was known to many as the author of "Microcosmic God", the short story in which a biochemist creates a race of tiny beings who live, at an accelerated rate, inside an artificially generated shield.
		Theodore Sturgeon was born in 1918 as Edward Hamilton Waldo.
		Preferring prudence to criminal genius, he elected to merely write about the perfect crime, and the resulting short appeared in 1938.
	www.nndb.com /people/207/000048063 (812 words)

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		Chris followed with a short address about the cull and read a short reading from Waldo Emerson.
		Chris then read Mary's pertinent " Fairy Story ".
		Thomas said he had known Dr Shannon for 40 years, that he was a straight talker and that his comment on the government's curious collection of individuals comprising their FMD advisory committee was very interesting and deserved attention.
	www.warmwell.com /todayarchive.html (812 words)

	Louisa May Alcott - Penguin Books Authors - Penguin Books
		Alcott's first published short story was The Rival Painters: A Tale of Rome (1852), and her first published book was Flower Fables (1854), a collection of short fairy-tale stories and poems which she had originally created to entertain Ralph Waldo Emerson's daughter Ellen.
		Louisa May Alcott was born on November 29, 1832, in Germantown, Pennsylvania.
		Louisa May Alcott wrote her first novel, The Inheritance, at age seventeen, but it went unpublished for nearly 150 years until 1997, after two researchers (Joel Myerson and Daniel Shealy) stumbled across the handwritten manuscript in the Houghton Library at Harvard University.
	www.penguin.ca /nf/Author/AuthorPage/0,,0_1000000661,00.html (729 words)

	anne frank jewish short story
		Waldo Emerson Ian Fleming Anne Frank Margaret Fuller Thomas...
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		book also shows that the story of Anne Frank, which came to stand...
	www.jewnet.co.uk /annefrankjewishshortstory (729 words)

	Books, Biography & Memoirs~~Historical - Trading Twelves: The Selected Letters of Ralph Ellison and Albert Murray by Ralph Waldo Ellison, ISBN 0375503676
		A collection of short stories details the lives of characters in search of hope and meaning amidst indifferent relationships and lackluster jobs.
		A journalist for Life who originally covered Americas space race beginning in 1963 details the story behind the race to the moon, from battling engineers and near disasters to political infighting.
		Katts Kozy Korner is proud to present you with All the Anxious Girls on Earth by Zsuzsi Gartner, ISBN 0385499116.
	kattskozykorner.com /walmart14/walmart141053.shtml (729 words)

	Theodore Sturgeon: Science Fiction Inventions
		The general method was remarkably similar to a technique used by award-winning sf author Theodore Sturgeon in his classic 1941 story Microcosmic God.
		Edward Hamilton Waldo (1918-1985) changed his name to Theodore Sturgeon after his mother's divorce and remarriage.
		He wrote many short stories for magazines like Astounding Science Fiction and Unknown, and was perhaps the most anthologized science fiction author of the 1950's.
	www.technovelgy.com /ct/AuthorTotalNewsList.asp?AuNum=31 (209 words)

	Out of your speakers and into your living room...it's THE SCREAM!
		The Scream's A and R person mysteriously exited from the picture (that's the story and I'm stickin' to it...)
		What a great band this was, albeit short-lived.
		I Don't Care was written by The Scream, Jamie Brown, and Scott Travis...Jimmy Waldo played Hammond organ.
	www.racerxband.com /scream.htm (333 words)

	Ralph Waldo Ellison Biography
		Ralph Waldo Ellison was born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma on March 1, 1914 to Lewis Alfred and Ida (Millsap) Ellison.
		In his introduction to the book Ellison said of the short pieces: “The very least I can say about their value is that they performed the grateful function of making it unnecessary to clutter up my fiction with half-formed or outrageously wrong-headed ideas.
		In Invisible Man Ellison constructed, from the fabric of his own background as a Negro, a nightmarish story of the brutal experience endured by a young American black man and their effect on his once naively idealistic psyche.
	www.nathanielturner.com /ralphellison2.htm (1623 words)

	2003 Race Day Story
		After blazing through T2 Simon Lessing crested the highest point on the run course on Lincoln Boulevard (around mile 3 of the 8 mile course) 25 seconds in front of Waldo (Craig Walton).
		It was the best case scenario for Barb Lindquist having raced Alcatraz many times just short of victory to finally be done with it and to post her first win.
		The last time Lessing raced Alcatraz was 1995 (winning the race) even after having crashed on the bike course and going to the hospital for stitches after crossing the finish tape.
	www.tricalifornia.com /alcatraz/2003/rdstory.htm (1623 words)

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		Waldo & Magic, Inc. Two great novellas that deal with magic.
		Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag Originally published under the name John Riverside, later published as 6xH
		Assignment in Eternity (1951) the "nova effect" makes the H-bomb look like a kitchen match--one bomb can vaporize an entire planet.
	anywwwhere.tripod.com /RAHeinlein.html (1866 words)

	biog_dict.s
		Edward Hamilton Waldo) US science fiction aut.; wrote novels "The Dreaming Jewels" 1950, "More than Human" 1953, "The Cosmic Rape" 1958, short story "Slow Sculpture" 1970 _1918-1985 Sturges, Preston (orig.
		of Yale Univ. 1937-1950 _1885-1963 Seymour, Edward (Duke of Somerset) Eng.
		Sanford 1857 _1795-1858 Scott, George Campbell US movie actor, director, & producer; starred in movie "Patton" 1970 _1927-- Scott, George Gilbert, Sir Eng.
	www.sunsite.org.uk /sites/ftp.std.com/obi/Biographical/biog_dict.s (14697 words)

	biog_dict.s
		Edward Hamilton Waldo) US science fiction aut.; wrote novels "The Dreaming Jewels" 1950, "More than Human" 1953, "The Cosmic Rape" 1958, short story "Slow Sculpture" 1970 _1918-1985 Sturges, Preston (orig.
		of Yale Univ. 1937-1950 _1885-1963 Seymour, Edward (Duke of Somerset) Eng.
		1866-1868, 1874-1878; son of 14th Earl of Derby _1826-1893 Stanley, Edward Smith (12th Earl of Derby) Eng.
	www.sunsite.org.uk /sites/ftp.std.com/obi/Biographical/biog_dict.s (14697 words)

	biog_dict.s
		Edward Hamilton Waldo) US science fiction aut.; wrote novels "The Dreaming Jewels" 1950, "More than Human" 1953, "The Cosmic Rape" 1958, short story "Slow Sculpture" 1970 _1918-1985 Sturges, Preston (orig.
		of Yale Univ. 1937-1950 _1885-1963 Seymour, Edward (Duke of Somerset) Eng.
		1866-1868, 1874-1878; son of 14th Earl of Derby _1826-1893 Stanley, Edward Smith (12th Earl of Derby) Eng.
	www.sunsite.org.uk /sites/ftp.std.com/obi/Biographical/biog_dict.s (14697 words)

	biog_dict.s
		Edward Hamilton Waldo) US science fiction aut.; wrote novels "The Dreaming Jewels" 1950, "More than Human" 1953, "The Cosmic Rape" 1958, short story "Slow Sculpture" 1970 _1918-1985 Sturges, Preston (orig.
		Joseph Paul Cukoschay) US boxer; heavyweight boxing champion 1932-1933 _1902-1994 Sharma, Shankar Dayal Indian polit.; pres.
		of Yale Univ. 1937-1950 _1885-1963 Seymour, Edward (Duke of Somerset) Eng.
	www.sunsite.org.uk /sites/ftp.std.com/obi/Biographical/biog_dict.s (14697 words)

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