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Originally Posted by captainmoody
Pete, that is so interesting! To finally find someone that had contact with Art at one time (for me) is unbelievable. I have only known the man through words and pictures, Can you share any stories?
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Captain' I've been scratching my butt for four days now trying to recall something to share re my association with Art, to no avail. So late this morning I dug down deep and found a bag of stuff from that time and hit paydirt in some handwritten correspondence between me and Mal Parks, the TAB BOOKS publisher then. It's not what I expected, but it explains my lack of specific recall.
Someone before my tenure at TAB BOOKS signed Art to book contracts that had by my era fallen behind schedule. Nothing so unusual about a late book manuscript in the book business. I had those addresses and numbers for Art to follow up on those late manuscripts.
I had penciled in 'due' in one schedule showing that Art indicated his manuscript was on its way and in fact I found a book by him on an internal publishing schedule, which as far as I know, was ultimately published (don't ask me the title though, it was an early schedule and so subject to much change).
Other Writer Recollections:
Interestingly, I also found a note I had written to myself to review the material in the vault by Jack Darr. another service writer mentioned in this thread.
Anyone recall Homer L. Davidson? He was another servicer who was a prolific writer; he wrote stuff for me in both my magazine and book days.
A lesser known writer was a guy who wrote a robotics book for me but also wrote some servicing stuff, Edward L. Safford (think the spelling is right). Safford is significant in my mind because he claimed to have found a CRT rebuilder somewhere around Washington DC who would rebuild my full-of-air 15GP22. Never got around to doing it though; kinda recall my expectations were not too high to take a chance with my only 15G.
All this history happened in the middle of 1978.
Pete