-=> Quoting Sally Springett to Curtis Johnson <=-
 CJ> screenplays.  Maybe he's rich enough that he's no longer
 CJ> hungry?  He's got laurels enough to rest on.
 
 CJ> Sally, do you know?
 SS> He and his first wife, Charlotte, came to visit me in Chicago in
 SS> 1956 or so. He was then in the army stationed at Fort Knox. They
 SS> had spent every dime they had and needed money to get back to the
 SS> base on time. He sat down at eight in the morning and wrote a
 SS> story. Around noon I drove him to the Near North Side where Playboy
 SS> was then located. I waited in the car. He was back in ten minutes
 SS> having sold the story for an amount that boggled my mind ($500 I
 SS> think -- large money in the days when sf magazines were paying a
 SS> penny a word). On such experiences does confidence rest.
	
	I can easily imagine him going at his work with that kind
 of intensity, though.
	He once as a stunt wrote a story in a storefront window.  
 SS> I suspect he is not very hungry now but I haven't talked to him
 SS> about it. When we talk it is mostly of old friends.
	Tell him that we still want more, but that he has given
 us enough for us not to be a pest about our demand for more.
--- Blue Wave/DOS v2.30 [NR]
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