Arthur J. Burks in his "Lord of the Stratosphere" and "Monsters of Moyen" just tears it all to pieces and Wallace West puts everyone to sleep in "The End of Tyme," as does Dr. Keller in his "Sleeping War." Marius covers it with an ice-berg in his "Sixth Glacier," and Isaac R. Nathanson burns it up with a comet in "The Passing Star." Going to Weird Tales, Edmond (World-Saver) Hamilton musses it all up with a crazy man in "The Man Who Conquered Age," in the Dec., 1932 issue and in the next month Murray Leinster has his "Monsters" tramping through it. A particular delight, of late, is tearing up the Empire State Building. The builders would groan with agony, if they could read some of the tales wherein their work is smashed in three seconds flat! The movies have had their share in destroying New York, too. "King Kong" does some fancy exterior decorating, and in "Men Must Fight" it is bombed. So, remember, if you are not an author, but hope to be one, destroy New York City in your first story, and you will be on the road to fame in no time! * * * * * SIDE GLANCES by F. Lee Baldwin In a sale conducted by Linus Hogenmiller he sold the Weird Tales Anniversary number for only one dollar. Stories by Gaston Leroux that have appeared in Weird Tales are translated in the office of Jacques Chambrun, New York literary agent who represents Gaston Leroux's agent in this country. Some of the translating was done by Mildred Gleasson Prochet. "The Crime on Christmas Night" was translated by Morris Bentinck. R. H. Barlow won the National Amateur Press Association Laureateship for the year 1933. * * * * * WEIRD WHISPERINGS by Schwartz and Weisinger Paul Ernst is now illustrating his own yarns for _Weird Tales_, and several of them will soon see print.... Ray Cummings, now living in New York, informs us of his fantastic novelette, "The World of Doom," sold to _Thrilling Adventures_.... M. Brundage _is_ a woman and has a boy in grammar school. She swears that Howard's serial which started in the September WT is the best Conan story he has ever written.... Greye La Spina has received plenty of rough treatment from her fellow weird authors. Seabury Quinn, for instance, once received a letter from her criticising some of his work. In his answer to her he used words that shouldn't exactly be used to ladies. (He thought she was a young man.) However, he soon found out different and they are the best of friends. Then again, Arthur J. Burks remarked to her in a letter that judging from her work she had a bright future. La Spina wrote back that her daughter and grandchildren thought likewise!