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from "roughly the end of 1942" until World War II interrupted his career. He was drafted in 1944, although he was
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praised Gold as "almost the only s.f. writer capable of creating lower and lower-middle class background," he found that the stories "are simply not up to the standards of craftsmanship" that Gold set as an editor.
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