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COSMOLOGISI KILIFD

Hyrcan Major Attacks Camping Party
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Trovenei, Phrygia, July 21 Johan Scrub, advocate

of the star-capture theory which assigns the original
parentage of the Concourse Worlds to Blue Compan-
ion, yesterday was set upon by an adult hyrcan ma)or,
and almost instantly killed Dr Strub and several mem-
bers of his family were exploring the Midas Mountains
of upper Phrygia and unwittingly crossed the elving-
platform of a king beast Before others in his party were
able to destroy the eight-foot ogre, Dr Strub had suf-
fered fatal blows

Dr. Strub is chiefly noted for his efforts to prove
that Blue Companion and the twenty-six worlds of the
Concourse were originally an independent system
which wandered into the gravitational domain of Rigel


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Such a circumstance would explain the disparity in the
ages of the Concourse worlds and Rigel, a compara-
tively young star

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COSMOPOLIS MAGAZINE ABOUT TO BE SOLD

Famous Old Journal Faces Extinction
Directors Make Last-ditch Efforts at Salvage

London, England, Earth, June 25 The ancient firm of
Radian Publishing Company today sought a stopgap loan
to meet the chronic annual deficit incurred in the publica-
tion of Cosmopohs, the 792-year-old magazine devoted to the
life and affairs of the civilized universe Sherman Zugweil,
Chairman of Radian's Board of Directors, admitted a crisis
to be at hand, but announced himself confident of coping
with it and keeping the doughty old journal in circulation