Clifton B. Kruse

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mutant n. 1938 ‘S. Lane’ Niedbalski’s Mutant in Astounding Science-Fiction May 137/2 And yet I have, even in age, one source of joy. Man no longer calls me the ‘strange mutant’. My card reads simply: ‘Niedbalski’—the name of the man I love.
mutant n. 1938 ‘S. Lane’ Niedbalski’s Mutant in Astounding Science-Fiction May 133/1 I am what you have made me—the ultimate of that one sensitive mutant.
rocketeer n. 1941 C. B. Kruse Planet Leave in Cosmic Stories Mar. 78/1 He wore the woven bronze-mesh uniform of a commercial rocketeer service.
scouter n. 1936 C. B. Kruse Flight of the Typhoon in Astounding Stories Oct. 142/2 I soon discovered that off-duty hours on board a rocket scouter were little more than eating and sleeping until the chimes sounded out again. Indeed, there was no recreation room, nothing to read.