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life! Feeling that it would prove interesting to you also, I am taking the liberty of enclosing herewith the newspaper dipping which brought the real life case to my attention." Here is the clipping: "Richmond, Virginia, Aug. 15.—One of the strangest operations yet attempted by surgeons will be performed soon on Miss Daisy Violet Powell, in an attempt to remove what they believe to be the body of a twin sister from her body. The girl was born in Calcutta 24 years ago. The strange growth was first discovered when she was ten. An operation for what was believed to be a tumor in her side revealed another body with hair, tissue and bone. The surgeon called in to make a study of her case died and other doctors refused to attempt the operation, fearing it would endanger her life. The Powell family recently came to this country and Richmond surgeons, hearing of the case, studied it, and have finally decided to operate."


A Horse Race

Eugene Benefiel, of Los Angeles, writes: "When I got my August copy of WT and looked through it, it struck me as one of the finest issues of 'our' magazine it had ever been my pleasure to get. From cover to cover, starting with Brundage's cover painting of a scene in The Devil in Iron and ending with your excellent reprint (I always read the reprint last—it ages it more), WT gives us this time C. L. Moore, Robert E. Howard, Hugh B. Cave, Frank B. Long, Jr., Francis Flagg, Arlton Eadie, Mary Elizabeth Counselman, Clark Ashton Smith, Paul Ernst, and R. Anthony. I ask you—is that an all-star line-up, or is it? In my opinion, Dust of Gods rated first by a nose over Howard's The Devil in Iron, with Miss Counselman's strange little tale, The Three Marked Pennies, half a length back in the show spot, and the rest of the field pushing the pace to record-breaking time by the leaders. They were all A-One, and Brundage's cover topped it off perfectly. What a magazine!"


One Christmas Eve

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