Soldier of Fortune (March 1985, v10n03)
From Wailing Wall to Hallowed Ground by Jim Graves
Learned a lot about the Vietnam Veterans Memorial - I didn't realize there were objections at the time to the bleakness of the Memorial Wall, as well as to the architect Maya Yin Ling for being born in Ohio. I tease, it was from racism, with Ross Perot calling her an "egg roll". They added a statute and a flagpole as part of a compromise, and it's questionable how much of the controversy was from veterans as a whole as opposed to some financial backers. This article is about the inauguration of the Three Soldiers statue.
Complete Man (February, 1967, v7n01)
Vietnam's Life-or-Death Rescue Daredevils by Emile C. Schurmacher
Quick handful of pages on helicopter rescues, evacuating wounded from fire zones.
Teen-Age Gangsters (1957)
Thrill Pills
Straight talk about goofballs. As silly as the parodies are, 1950s drug warnings are way sillier. Teens using barbiturates constantly get laid which somehow leads to car theft.
Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine (March 1983, v28n03)
Professor Kreller's Secret by Ingram Meyer
A romance author hires a pair of private detectives, one a grandma, to investigate her professor neighbor, who has guest visit but never leave. The professor drops dead on campus, they find newspaper clippings that the visitors are criminals who escaped justice, and they think the professor turned them into cats. This is introduced as a second act red herring, but the story just kinda ends with a "maybe he did turn them into cats...somehow". Feels like it was written for children.
Street & Smith's Mystery Magazine (May 1940,v06n01)
Too Many Ghosts by Maxwell Grant
Norgil the Magician investigates a murder in a haunted theater. Usual convoluted Scooby-Doo stuff.
Startling Detective Adventures (December 1937, v19n113)
Milwaukee's Passion Slayers and the Missing Schoolgirl
Two drifters rape and kill a teenage girl. Interesting to see some basic profiling, which was probably as effective as it is now. After conviction, the judge gives a speech about sterilization, which I'm sure has nothing to do with the culprits being Eastern European.
Savage Realms Monthly Volume 1 (January 2021)
The Festival of the Bull by Steve Dilks
Bohun, a warrior from an Africa stand-in, escapes a slave ship and lands in a Greco-Roman stand in, where he his captured, forced to fight a jaguar, and escapes. Solid enough, but after reading 70s historical fiction the recent stuff feels a bit PG-13 to me.
A couple of snoozers in this round, but Professor Kreller's Secret is giving me second thoughts about the entire shelf of AHMMs I've collected. Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine is eliminated.
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