Astounding Science Fiction, British Edition — page 46: what you’re looking at

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Tele rlAPPINeESS errecy By RAYMOND E. BANKS re Do you want to be made happy? Do you wish a technique existed by which your unhappiness could be magically removed? What would it mean if someone could do it for you. Answer: They would, brother— they would! Illustrated by Frank Kelly Freas if WAS standing in the town’s main drugstore when IJ felt a tug at my sleeve. Most of my troubles as the town’s police chief begin with a tug _ at my sleeve. It was Dr. Roydan, as usual, peering up at me with his close- set eyes. “Fellow just come into town,” he said. “Suspicious. Painting pictures out at Willow Hollow. Maybe you should speak to him.” Doc Roydan ran his tongue over his thin lips and the old face wrinkled into a grin which isn’t a real grin but a grimace, a tic that he has. “Has the Town Council passed a law against painting pictures of Wil- low Hollow?” I asked, not able to keep out a little sarcasm. “Now, Henry,” he protested, “you know as the duly appointed Brain- writer I got to keep my eyes on things. If it wasn’t for us Brainwriters—” He went into his lecture on brain- conmilelooolkks.c© in