The Alchemist, Vol. 1, No. 5 — page 22: what you’re looking at

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18 ~---- ALCHZQST ----- ization manifestations of a substance which has since been named “ectoplasm", but which at that time, by one German writer vas called "teleplasm". I didn't like his word for it, and sco» coined my owne 1 called it “psychoplasm". The story was sold to “eird Tales in 1922, and publisned as a two-parter beginning in the first. issue of that magazine in 1923: -li coined: word has since been used by many writers, and has found its vay ~ into the latest dictionairies, shough net tith precisely the definition which originelly ceused me to coin ite ps2 | | wee 2 Sa Other stories folloved, besed on psychology, or cn other sciences, chiefly astronomy and: psysics, sometines in ,combination with psychology. TH? PLAN=T OF PHRIL, vhich -combined all three, after being seristizea in Arscosy was the first to achieve book odublicction--.I also» wrote seme poetry and articies, anu-most. otherttypes of fiction, and in additior to sclling almost @1l types of stories: to &@ wice vacieiy of Ue .S. Publications; and having some of them. syndicated in-mere than four hundred Newspapers anda novel made into a motion picture by Unirarsal, I sold many of them in Canada, Eng- land. Australia, Sweden, Denmark, *erway, Finland, heiland. Poland, Austric, Czechoslovakia and Fran- cGée In. is22, f helped ae hie t-Be@=rs writer, . an old timer who-had-.quit fer eizht=-years and vith whom [ had previously collaborated .on-soncs ~and movie scsnarios, and one musical comedy, to come backe Ne quickly told others of the help I. had Given hin, and they told others, so presently, I had en agency, international in its scopes Soon I was sellin: the work of other writers as well as my own, in foreign countries ag well as the Ue Se Presently, also, I was representin~ foreign vublish ers, authors end syndicates in foreicn countries. The war has pleyed havoc with moch of this inter- national business, but the domestic business, par- CONNIE IOOKS (E(0)