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                                             August 13, 2010



This is a detail I must've known about, but hadn't sunk
in somehow.  At the outbreak of World War II:

   "Campbell suddenly discovered that editing the best
   science-fiction magazine in the world was no longer
   enough to satisfy him. Through friends, he found out
   that the Navy was willing to set up a small research
   facility at the Philadelphia Navy Yard to take on
   problems that the established teams weren’t handling,
   and set himself to help the war effort by recruiting
   people to staff it. Robert A. Heinlein was an easy
   choice: former Annapolis man himself, invalided out
   as a j.g. and desperate to get back into
   uniform. L. Sprague de Camp because he, too, couldn’t
   pass the physical for actual combat. Isaac was a
   natural. And there was also a good-looking female
   lieutenant better known by the name she acquired a
   few years later, Ginny Heinlein."
                                                           ROMANCE_OF_THE_REAL

          Frederick Pohl
          http://www.thewaythefutureblogs.com/2010/01/isaac-part-2/



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