SERGEANT SATURN

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The lettercolumn editor of the Standard mags for a best- forgotten period; invented by Mort Weisinger. Doubtless a progenitor of the Beanie Brigade, he exhibited the eccentricities of language ("killed another Xeno jug... open the bomb bay doors, Warteyes, we're approaching New York... you may expect a VV [vaporized venom] rocket by return mail...") identified with the more frenetic segment of fandom. Merwin started to clean up the xeno jive-talk in '46, and killed the Sergeant off in late '47.