Big discovery: Life is now among the magazines available on Google Books.

Small discovery: while looking for mentions of "Arthur C. Clarke" I found a Clarke letter in the October 16, 1964 issue. See .

Much to my surprise, on the same page a letter is contributed by Roby Wentz, Heinlein's friend, who was part of the Mañana Literary Society in 1940. In 1964 he was still (or again?) living in Los Angeles. (This is the only mention of him Google finds in the pages of Life.)

The letter deals with clean rooms in which spacecraft are assembled, of all things.

(If you're wondering about the spread for Destination Moon, it's in the April 24, 1950 issue: )

Thanks for the links, Bill. Good stuff!

I remember when I finally discovered that Arthur C. Clarke had a sense of humor. It was when a guy I was dating lent me his copy of "Tales from the White Hart". Had I read this letter before then, I would have been less shocked, although probably not less delighted, with those delightful stories. (Yes, I like Clarke's serious stuff, too, although not quite as much as I do Heinlein's.)