[Milsurplus] Wayne

[Gene Smar]

Gents:

     I, likewise, read Wayne's editorials first when 73 mag arrived.  Always 
enjoyed his out-there ideas but they all made me think a bit.  I was sorry 
to see 73 stop publication.


73 de
Gene Smar  AD3F

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gary Pewitt" <garypewitt at centurytel.net>
To: "Glen Zook" <gzook at yahoo.com>
Cc: <radioman390 at cs.com>; <kargo_cult at msn.com>; <milsurplus at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Saturday, July 20, 2013 9:38 PM
Subject: Re: [Milsurplus] Wayne


> Wayne Green and John W. Campbell were both writers whose editorials 
> were -always- the first things I read in '73 and Analog magazines.  They 
> would take either side of an argument just for the fun of debating.  It 
> was a -very- sad day for me when Campbell died and it will be another when 
> Wayne goes. People like them are part of what makes life interesting.  I 
> liked '73 better than any other ham magazine and of course Analog had no 
> rivals as a science fiction mag.
>
>
> On 7/20/2013 5:54 PM, Glen Zook wrote:
>> He sold the magazines including 73.  However, within a very short period 
>> of time, the new owners had run the magazines into the ground and Wayne 
>> got a number of them back for not much.
>>
>> I first met Wayne Green in August 1961 at the Central Division Convention 
>> in Springfield, Illinois.  He was a character.  However, he often wrote 
>> editorials, etc., that were actually opposite of how he really felt. 
>> But, those outrageous editorials kept people coming back for more which 
>> definitely sold more magazines and he was in the business of selling 
>> magazines!
>>   Glen, K9STH
>>
>>
>> Website:  http://k9sth.com
>>
>>
>> ________________________________
>>   From: "radioman390 at cs.com" <radioman390 at cs.com>
>> To: kargo_cult at msn.com; milsurplus at mailman.qth.net
>> Sent: Saturday, July 20, 2013 4:27 PM
>> Subject: Re: [Milsurplus] Wayne
>>
>> Wayne had a magazine devoted to the Radio Shack TRS-80, and then a title 
>> a bit more modern, like "kilobaud" (I just don't recall). Didn't he sell 
>> his empire for big bucks?
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