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"Party of the Two Parts" and "Project Hush" (the latter in a different version)
appeared in Galaxy Science Fiction, both Copyright 1954 by Galaxy Pub-lishing
Corporation; "The Discovery of Morniel Mathaway," "The Servant Problem," and
"The Flat-Eyed Monster" appeared in Galaxy Science Fiction, Copyright 1955 by
Galaxy Publishing Corporation; "Wednesday's Child" appeared in Fantastic
Universe, Copyright 1955 by King-Size Publications, Inc.; "The Human Angle"
appeared in Famous Fantastic Mysteries, Copyright 1948 by All-Fiction Field, Inc.
@ 1956 by William Tenn
First printing: August, 1956 Second printing: April, 1964
Library of Congress Catalog Card No. 5641224
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Contents

Project Hush
The Discovery of Morniel Mathaway
Wednesday's Child
The Servant Problem
Party of the Two Parts
The Flat-Eyed Monster
The Human Angle
A Man of Family

Project Hush

I guess I'm just a stickler, a perfectionist, but if you do a thing, I always say, you
might as well do it right. Everything satisfied me about the security measures on our
assignment except one-the official Army designation.
Project Hush.
I don't know who thought it up, and I certainly would nev-er ask, but whoever it
was, he should have known better. Damn it, when you want a project kept secret,
you don't give it a designation like that! You give it something neutral, some name
like the Manhattan and Overlord they used in World War II, which won't excite
anybody's curiosity.
But we were stuck with Project Hush and we had to take extra measures to ensure
secrecy. A couple of times a week, everyone on the project had to report to Psycho
for DD & HA-dream detailing and hypnoanalysis-instead of the usual monthly visit.
Naturally, the commanding general of the heavily fortified research post to which we
were attached could not ask what we were doing, under penalty of court-martial, but
he had to be given further instructions to shut off his imagination like a faucet every
time he heard an explosion. Some idiot in Washington was actually going to list
Project Hush in the military budget by name! It took fast action, I can tell you, to
have it entered under Miscellaneous "X" Research.
Well, we'd covered the unforgivable blunder, though not easily, and now we could
get down to the real business of the project. You know, of course, about the