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Subject: WRITER L. RON HUBBARD:FOUNDER OF SCIENTOLOGY
Date: 1 Nov 1996 02:30:04 GMT
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from the book 'What is Scientology?' and show you where you can look
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He directed two expeditions, the Caribbean Motion Picture Expedition,
a two-and-a-half month, 5,000-mile voyage aboard the four-masted
schooner, DORIS HAMLIN, and the West Indies Mineralogical Expedition,
which completed the first mineralogical survey of the island
of Puerto Rico under US rule. Upon his return to the United States,
and with scientific grants few and far between, he began to write
his way to fame and fortune, supporting his research by becoming
one of the most popular writers of the 1930s.

As the editor of THRILLING ADVENTURES MAGAZINE, one of the more than
30 magazines he headlined, wrote in October 1934, "L. Ron Hubbard
needs no introduction. From the letters you send in, his yarns are
among the most popular we have published. Several of you have wondered,
too, how he gets the splendid color which always characterizes his
stories of the faraway places. The answer is: He's been there, brothers.
He's been and seen and done. And plenty of all three."

While continuing to write for his New York editors as well as screenplays
for Hollywood such as SECRET OF TREASURE ISLAND, he never stopped
his vital researches into man.


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