Re: Need Carl & Jerry assistance...

Don Lancaster (don@xxxxxxxxxx) writes:

I got my info straight from Les Solomon who I am absolutely convinced
(three decades ago) told me he and Perry and John would sit around and
vet the C&J stories for feasibility. I got the impression that the
disability most certainly existed but was studiously downplayed by all
concerned.

I can't see Leslie Solomon making up that sort of story, and I would
consider that more reliable than the vague "someone said". I never had
a complete set of old hobby electronic magazines, but I sure don't
recall reading of any disability. But then, except a note at the end
of one Carl and Jerry story, http://home.gwi.net/~jdebell/pe/cj/v18-6.htm
where he thanks the readers for well wishers over a recent illness, I
never saw anything so personal from him. He used the characters in his
stories to speak. That story was apparently in the June 1963 issue, so
presumably there was mention two or three issues earlier of an illness
that might give some more information to someone with a full set of
back issues.

When you mentioned John T. Frye's disability here in 1999, I pointed
out the disability of Herb S. Brier, but I also pointed out that John T.
Frye's callsign was W9EGV and Brier's was W9EGQ, which sure seems like
they were issued really close together. Two hams with very close callsigns
that also write for the same magazine? They must have known each other,
and that would certainly be a possible indicator of a disability. If
they were both disabled, they might have been given the test by the same
ham, which suggests other things in common.

As I said at that time, there were so many prolific writers for the hobby
magazines back then, yet they mostly came and went without much comment
or any details of themselves beyond the articles.

Jim Kyle has a webpage, www.jimkyle.com

I can't remember if he wrote for the hobby electronic magazines or just
the ham magazines, but John Schultz W2EEY wrote an awful lot. There's
sort of a mention here, www.w4amc.com/hc/pdf/hc0205.pdf of him, but it
doesn't reveal much.

Craig Anderton was less prolific in the hobby magazines (but wrote a lot
for the music magazines about electronics) and he has a website at
www.craiganderton.com

That might be something for me to do. Go through the old hobby electronic
magazines I still have, and pick out some of the common names, and do
searches on them.

Wayne Green, editor of CQ and then 73 is still alive, emulating his long
editorials in a blog at http://www.waynegreen.com

Turns out at least some of the more outrageous Les Solomon stories were
absolutely true. Such as him being an Isreali Operative.

http://www.ohav.org/columns/survival/solomon2.html is a jaw dropper for
sure.

I am pretty sure that story was mentioned in the obituaries when he died.
I thought it did reveal a whole other side of him that we never saw while
he was doing the magazine.

So much of that is long in the past. Oliver Ferrell is long gone, Popular
Electronics is gone, even Gernsback. John Simonton is gone, and I seem
to recall reading that Daniel Meyer had died at some point.

Michael


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