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Excerpt from The Link, Vol. 6: March, 1948 John Scott Douglas (So Long Remembered, page 3) is a new contributor to The Link but by no means new to the writing world. His travel in 17 foreign countries has provided him with many interesting characters and backgrounds for his stories and has led him to such unforgettable experiences as exploring a pre-Incan city in the Peruvian Andes with the help of hired Quechua Indians. Another adventure took him to the bottom of the ocean off the mid-California coast. He says if any work were ever to tempt him away from writing it certainly would be deep-sea diving. Joe E. Brown (Really - I Am a Serious Guy, page 7) needs no introduction. This article gives the reader a glimpse of the great humanitarian heart which led this man to the battlefields in an effort to bring a bright spot to the dreary days of combat. Mr. Brown lost his own son in the war effort, but even this great sorrow did not prevent his untiring service to the men in the armed forces. Chaplain Claude E. Strait (After Two Years in Japan, page 11) brings to us a report compiled from data collected for almost two years. His article attempts to portray the significance the occupation has had upon Japan two years after the surrender. We are happy to present this material to Link readers in the belief that a better understanding of the situation in Japan will be gained. Harold Heifer (The Sight of Beauty, page 15) will be remembered as the writer of The Face of Guilt which appeared in our January issue. Arthur Holsinger (Walk in the Valley, page 18) whose story, Requiem for the Living, in the November issue won many fine comments both for him and The Link now brings to us another piece of excellent writing. Ruel McDaniel (Service for Manuel, page 26) is the president of a publishing company in Port Lavace, Texas, which puts out "a little two-by-four newspaper and is planning a trade journal." He has traveled every State except North Dakota gathering article and story material. He has also managed to get into Canada, Cuba and Mexico. Not only has he written several books, two of which have been published, but to date he has sold 5687 stories and articles! Mr. McDaniel states that he was a Naval aviator in World War I (ensign) and that makes him a pretty old codger - 50 to be exact - and it isn't often that he feels a day over 60. He says he is kept going by the glowing fact that in another 15 years he will be eligible for Social Security. He possesses one wife, one cat, one Graflex and one Buick. The cat and Mr. McDaniel get along very well. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.