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His father was in Germany JWC to Robert Swisher, April 5, 1948.
Laura was stationed with her husband Ibid.
a house that the editor found for them Miller, Bare-Faced Messiah, 148.
“more fiction than anything else” JWC to Cyril Vosper, April 30, 1970.
“The sparkle was back” JWC to RAH, March 24, 1953.
“He’s better off dead” JWC to Joseph Winter, July 1949, quoted in Winter, A Doctor’s Report on Dianetics, 4.
“I had known [Hubbard]” JWC to Raymond F. Jones, October 10, 1953.
“It’ll be a great world” Joseph A. Winter, “Endocrinology is Tough,” ASF, October 1948, 125.
“L. Ron Hubbard, who happens to be an author” JWC to Joseph Winter, July 1949, quoted in Winter, A Doctor’s Report on Dianetics, 3.
“My vanity hopes” Winter, A Doctor’s Report on Dianetics, 8.
“The recording of her sequence” LRH, Dianetics, 126.
“You’ll forget all about this” JWC to RAH, September 15, 1949.
“automatic restimulator . . . [I] was barely able to hold myself under control” Ibid.
suffered from itchiness Ibid.
“I used the technique on one knee” Ibid.
“I firmly believe this technique” Ibid.
“You will appreciate” RAH to JWC, October 1, 1949.
“a purple-plated doozy” JWC to RAH, November 4, 1949.
Hubbard took Campbell back to a period before his birth Don Rogers to Jon Atack, July 20, 1984. Letter provided by Jon Atack.
Joseph Winter, Sr. JWC to Laura Krieg, May 20, 1953.
“I had nightmares of being choked” Winter, A Doctor’s Report on Dianetics, 11.
a spiral painted on a record turntable Smith, Worlds of George O., 213.
one of his Ole Doc Methuselah stories LRH, “Her Majesty’s Aberration,” ASF, March 1948, 126–40.
scopolamine JWC described his use of drugs with Winter and LRH in letters to Raymond F. Jones, October 10, 1953, and Bill Powers, November 4, 1953.
“nam” and “env” JWC, “Interpreters May Still Be Needed,” ASF, June 1941, 6.
the fates of Norse mythology JWC discussed Norse mythology in a letter to John W. Campbell, Sr., May 15, 1953, and its influence can be seen in such early stories as “Out of Night” and “Cloak of Aesir.”
“rules of thumb” JWC to RAH, September 15, 1949.
figuring out a story idea JWC to RAH, November 4, 1949.
“Although he did a lot of talking” Corydon, Messiah or Madman?, 190.
“So I just simply processed” LRH, Saint Hill Special Briefing Course, April 27, 1965.
“I guess I didn’t like being ignored” Leslyn Randazzo, e-mail to author, July 31, 2016.
Rocketship X-M Patterson, The Man Who Learned Better, 43. LRH wrote on November 14, 1949: “I am working on a movie shooting script.” Reprinted in LRH, Dianetics: Letters & Journals, 22. His contributions to the screenplay went uncredited, although one line bears his stamp: “Today, there is even the possibility that an unassailable base could be established on the moon to control world peace.”
the publicity for Destination Moon LRH to RAH, December 30, 1949.
“Nothing of real interest” LRH to RAH, July 18, 1949.
“It is an article on the science of the mind” JWC, In Times to Come, ASF, December 1949, 80.
“That’s where the ghosts are” Winter, A Doctor’s Report on Dianetics, 14–16.
Winter submitted a paper Ibid., 18.
he cautioned a correspondent JWC to George F. Forbes, May 11, 1971.
“A Criticism of Dianetics” The unpublished manuscript was discovered by the author in the microfilm files of JWC, The Complete Collection of the John W. Campbell Letters, Reel 2.
“played . . . back very carefully” LRH to JWC, December 9, 1949.
“it is in no sense an effort to be funny” Ibid.
a contract was signed around Christmas JWC to RAH, January 25, 1950.
fifty thousand words of new material JWC, In Times to Come, ASF, August 1950, 60.
“There is something new coming up” Walter Winchell, “In New York,” New York Daily Mirror, January 31, 1950.
Hubbard had kicked her in the stomach Wright, Going Clear, 84.
the world’s first dianetic baby was unusually alert LRH to RAH, March 28, 1950.
“There was a greatly accelerated rate” Winter, A Doctor’s Report on Dianetics, 218.
“Anyone attempting to stop” JWC, “Advice to the Pre-Clear,” in LRH, Dianetics, 431.
“While dianetics does not consider the brain” LRH, “Terra Incognita: The Mind,” The Explorers Journal, Winter/Spring 1950.
“Bob Heinlein sat down one time” Wright, Going Clear, 74.
“[Van Vogt] with his null-A” LRH to RAH, March 31, 1949.
“He became a big follower of Korzybski” Corydon, Messiah or Madman?, 286.
unable to finish any of Korzybski’s books Wright, Going Clear, 74.
painful memories could be restimulated Corydon, Messiah or Madman?, 286–88.
“The analytical mind computes in differences” LRH, Dianetics, 336.
“purpose tremor” Wiener, Cybernetics, 127.
a piece on cybernetics E. L. Locke, “Cybernetics,” ASF, September 1949, 78–87.
“There was one error in that book” LRH, “Affirmations.”
“I’m up to eight comes” LRH to RAH, March 31, 1949.
“Basically, the brain” JWC to RAH, July 26, 1949.
“The human mind is a calculating machine” JWC to RAH, September 15, 1949.
psychoanalysis, hypnosis, and Christian Science Winter, A Doctor’s Report on Dianetics, 9.
“Christian Science, Catholic miracle shrines” JWC to RAH, September 15, 1949.
“clearing” an adding machine “The brain, in the course of nature, never even approximately clears out its past records.” Wiener, Cybernetics, 143.
“anxiety neuroses” Ibid., 176.
“demon circuit” LRH, Dianetics, 86.
“He was a marvelous editor” Corydon, Messiah or Madman?, 307.
“a new, logical theory” JWC to Helen Swick Tepper, March 30, 1950.
“be greatly interested” Kline, The Cybernetics Movement, 92.
“If you read science fiction” Soni and Goodman, A Mind at Play, 201.
“They are parasitic” LRH to RAH, March 28, 1950.
“the electronic computer idea” LRH, “Dianetics: The Evolution of a Science,” ASF, May 1950, 53.
“The concept of the electronic brain” LRH, Dianetics, 70.
a long footnote JWC in LRH, Dianetics, 44n.
“You can tear that out” LRH, Saint Hill Special Briefing Course, August 10, 1961.
“Now with this engram” LRH, Dianetics, 107–8.
“Shouldn’t you be on your clandestine way” Smith, Worlds of George O., 214.
“Doña sort of blew her top” JWC to RAH, March 9, 1950. JWC attributed the separation to an engram planted by a prenatal memory of Doña’s father, George, of whom her mother supposedly said while pregnant, “If I lose George, I’ll die.”
“If I don’t get out of here” Doña Smith to RAH and Virginia Heinlein, January 20, 1952.
“This shows the word rate influence” Ibid.
he audited her to remove the emotional charge JWC to RAH, March 9, 1950.
When Leslyn figured it out JWC to Robert Swisher, September 7, 1950.
“I’d like to know just what the living hell” JWC to RAH, March 9, 1950.
“you’ll also get a long discussion” Ibid.
“If the situation had seriously disturbed me” JWC to Robert Swisher, September 7, 1950.
“the obvious move” Doña Smith to RAH and Virginia Heinlein, January 20, 1952.
CHAPTER 12: THE DIANETICS EPIDEMIC (1950–1951)
“If anyone wants a monopoly” LRH, Dianetics, 168.
“Special Features” JWC, The Analytical Laboratory
, ASF, October 1949, 57.
“This is not a hoax article” JWC, In Times to Come, ASF, December 1949, 80.
“I want to assure every reader” JWC, “Concerning Dianetics,” ASF, May 1950, 4.
“[Campbell] wanted to make certain” Joseph A. Winter, introduction to “Dianetics: The Evolution of a Science,” ASF, May 1950, 43.
many fans still thought that it was a gag “A lot of the fans think I have gone Palmer one better, with a new Shaverism.” JWC to Jack Williamson, quoted in Williamson, Wonder’s Child, 184. He was referring to the Shaver Mystery, a series of articles in Amazing, ghostwritten by the editor Raymond A. Palmer, that purported to describe a subterranean civilization reminiscent of the work of H. P. Lovecraft.
“The optimum computing machine” LRH, “Dianetics: The Evolution of a Science,” ASF, May 1950, 44. This section is likely to have been written by JWC.
“the medicine man of the Goldi people” Ibid., 48.
“a well-greased Univac” Ibid., 60.
“Up there are the stars” Ibid., 87.
“straining a gut” JWC to RAH, January 25, 1950.
a favorite of Heinlein and Asimov Patterson, Learning Curve, 39, and Asimov, In Memory Yet Green, 425n. LRH also mentions Durant in “My Philosophy,” 1965, http://www.lronhubbard.org/articles-and-essays/my-philosophy.html (accessed December 2017).
“Mother is saying” LRH, Dianetics, 265.
“Dianetics addresses war” Ibid., 406.
“Sometimes soldiers in the recent war” Ibid., 348–49.
“In twenty or a hundred years” Ibid., 408.
“For God’s sake” Ibid., 410.
the American Institute of Advanced Therapy LRH to Attorney General, U.S. Department of Justice, May 14, 1951.
the Hubbard Dianetic Research Foundation Miller, Bare-Faced Messiah, 153.
C. Parker Morgan JWC discusses his treatment of “Parker” in a letter to RAH, March 9, 1950.
the treasurer would be Campbell himself Williamson, Wonder’s Child, 184.
“The professional people” Winter, A Doctor’s Report on Dianetics, 29–30.
two thousand letters LRH, letter in Brass Tacks, ASF, August 1950, 152.
“Happily for me” LRH, telegram to Otto Gabler, reprinted in LRH, Dianetics: Letters & Journals, 61.
“surplus army cots” JWC to Jack Williamson, quoted in Williamson, Wonder’s Child, 184.
more hours of free auditing JWC to Don Purcell, August 13, 1951.
Leaving his daughters with the housekeeper JWC to RAH, July 27, 1950.
“Why, for God’s sake” JWC to Eric Frank Russell, May 9, 1958.
“homosexuals, alcoholics” JWC to Jack Williamson, quoted in Williamson, Wonder’s Child, 184.
“We have case histories on homos” JWC to RAH, December 29, 1950.
participating in debates at colleges Ibid.
“It is not the first” Advertisement on inside front cover, ASF, August 1950.
“The professional journals” JWC, Brass Tacks, ASF, August 1950, 158.
its circulation stood at 75,000 JWC to Eric Frank Russell, January 7, 1952.
over a thousand copies a day LRH to RAH, July 14, 1950.
“Well, I’ve got to go” Van Vogt, Reflections of A. E. van Vogt, 83.
his wife’s sister . . . a cathartic sense of grief Miller, Bare-Faced Messiah, 159.
“If you can get a reasoned explanation” JWC to RAH, March 9, 1950.
“sorry as hell” RAH to JWC, March 18, 1950.
“If she is cleared” JWC to RAH, March 24, 1950.
“I fully expected to come down here” Doña Campbell to RAH, June 3, 1950.
“in the hands of a couple of crackpot world-savers” Doña Campbell to RAH and Virginia Heinlein, May 8, 1950.
Destination Moon Robert Silverberg, e-mail to author, September 20, 2016.
an orange space suit JWC to RAH, July 27, 1950.
she was nicknamed “Irish” JWC to Ted Carnell, August 5, 1957.
the University of Wisconsin JWC provides information on Peg’s educational background in letters to E. N. Columbus, April 25, 1952; Dr. Albert P. Kline, May 5, 1952; and Gib Hocking, February 15, 1954.
a flour and feed company “Everett Kearney is Heart Victim: Prominent Business Man Dies Wednesday,” Ironwood Daily Globe (Michigan), October 4, 1951.
embroidering crewel ski sweaters JWC to RAH, March 6, 1951.
investing five thousand dollars JWC to Don Purcell, March 14, 1955.
“You don’t know anything” JWC to Don Purcell, January 23, 1954.
Peg’s abilities as an auditor JWC to Raymond F. Palmer, March 17, 1954.
Asimov had heard about it from de Camp Asimov, In Memory Yet Green, 586.
the Hydracon convention Robert Silverberg, e-mail to author, September 21, 2016.
Doña married George O. Smith Doña and George O. Smith wedding announcement, August 19, 1950, in the RAH Archives, UC Santa Cruz.
“with a stable, wise, honest, and intelligent personality” JWC to Paul M. Springfield, April 4, 1968.
“If you start cross-auditing” JWC to “Mr. Allen,” February 15, 1953.
“The next president” Smith, Worlds of George O., 232.
“a good bull session” JWC, The Analytical Laboratory, ASF, September 1951, 102.
“You don’t know it” Alfred Bester, “My Affair with Science Fiction,” in Harrison and Aldiss, Hell’s Cartographers, 58f.
“Actually, that may be so” Frederik Pohl, in a talk at The Tyneside Cinema, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, June 26, 1978, http://www.thewaythefutureblogs.com/2011/04/me-and-alfie-part-6-john-w-campbell-dianetics (accessed December 2017).
“Incidentally, my dianetics-induced headache” Frederik Pohl to JWC, April 3, 1950.
“I know dianetics” JWC to Jack Williamson, quoted in Williamson, Wonder’s Child, 185.
“lunatic revision of Freudian psychology” Williamson, Wonder’s Child, 183.
“If I concentrate hard enough” Eric Frank Russell to JWC, December 11, 1949.
he was just envious of Hubbard De Camp, Time and Chance, 221.
Willy Ley broke away entirely Lester del Rey, in Locus, July 12, 1971, 4.
“I guess we’re not going to talk” Lester del Rey, interview with Alan Elms, LACon II, Anaheim, California, September 3, 1984. Recording courtesy of the SFOHA Archives.
“I have no connection” Kline, The Cybernetics Movement, 92.
“detrimental to my standing” Ibid.
Will Jenkins Stallings and Evans, Murray Leinster, 92.
Ross Rocklynne Menville, The Work of Ross Rocklynne, 10, 16–17.
Katherine MacLean In 1974, MacLean still listed “dianetics” as one of her interests in Reginald, Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature, Volume 2, 985.
Nelson S. Bond “I am glad you have been having good results from your dianetics and getting real psychosomatic relief.” JWC to Nelson S. Bond, May 25, 1951.
James Schmitz “Most of my top authors have plunged into reverie, and haven’t come up for story-writing since. . . . Ray Jones, James Schmitz, Nels Bond, and Bob Williams are all going full blast.” JWC to RAH, July 27, 1950.
Robert Moore Williams “Bob Williams got a local psychiatrist interested in dianetics—chief psychiatrist at the St. Louis spin-bin.” Ibid.
James Blish “My own personal tests of the therapy—on myself, my wife, and a friend (namely, Jerome Bixby)—haven’t proceeded very far as yet. But as far as they’ve gone, they check with the claims. . . . It may well be the most important discovery of this or any other century.” James Blish, “Dianetics: A Door to the Future,” Planet Stories, November 1950, 102. Blish describes JWC in the same article as “a government consultant in nuclear physics.”
“Brother, you’re not kidding” Raymond F. Jones to JWC, May 26, 1950.
Sturgeon, who was audited by Campbell himself Theodore Sturgeon, at the panel “The Man John W. Campbell,” Conclave III, Romulus, MI, November 4, 1978. Reco
rding courtesy of the SFOHA Archives.
“synthesis rather unlike anything done before” Davis, “The Work of Theodore Sturgeon,” 31.
“If it does you that much good” RAH to LRH, March 26, 1949.
“I have heard from [Hubbard]” RAH to JWC, August 1, 1949.
“I most solemnly assure you” JWC to RAH, September 15, 1949.
“I am most anxious” RAH to JWC, September 19, 1950.
“unallocated fear” RAH to JWC, April 5, 1951.
to get the military to look into it RAH to JWC, February 26, 1951.
“You, for instance” JWC to RAH, December 29, 1950.
who annoyed Asimov Asimov, In Memory Yet Green, 601.
“Captain Dianetic” Patterson, The Man Who Learned Better, 506n.
“I would love to experiment a bit” RAH to JWC, September 19, 1950.
“I tried lying down” RAH to Robert Bloch, November 30, 1950, quoted in Patterson, The Man Who Learned Better, 50.
“Hubbard’s dabblings in amateur psychiatry” Asimov, In Memory Yet Green, 570.
“Neither Sprague nor I” Ibid., 587.
“Damn it, Asimov” Ibid.
“lambasted dianetics” Ibid., 595.
“I want to maintain my loving relationship” Asimov to Frederik Pohl, November 21, 1949.
“All stories that go to magazines” Asimov to Frederik Pohl, January 6, 1950.
“Fuck Eando Binder” Asimov, In Memory Yet Green, 591.
“It was like having a stomachache in the mind” Asimov, Gold, 248.
“Have I done something?” Asimov, In Memory Yet Green, 592.
“I kept my mouth shut” Ibid., 602.
“fusser and tinkerer” RAH to Lurton Blassingame, October 13, 1951, quoted in Patterson, The Man Who Learned Better, 70.
Gold’s personal issues JWC later fought with Gold over reprints of stories that had originally appeared in Astounding, and he wrote without apparent irony of the “psychological slant” of the fiction in Galaxy: “Horace Gold . . . is an acute agoraphobe and xenophobe. . . . A number of years of psychotherapy were signally unsuccessful; he is now engaged in developing his own therapeutic theory and attempting to work out his own problems.” JWC to Steven G. Vandenberg, September 19, 1956.
an accident of timing By way of comparison, when F. Orlin Tremaine founded the rival magazine Comet in 1940, he failed to win over most of JWC’s writers: “No, it won’t ever be Tremaine. Sprague gave me an earful of how Tremaine had treated him. I resented it very nearly as much as if it had been addressed to me personally.” RAH to JWC, February 17, 1941. Asimov recounts a similarly distressing encounter with Tremaine in In Memory Yet Green, 283–84.