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    The Amazing Mrs. Mimms
    The Amazing Mrs. Mimms
    The Amazing Mrs. Mimms
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    The Amazing Mrs. Mimms

    By David C. Knight

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    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 26, 2013
    The Amazing Mrs. Mimms
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    David C. Knight

    DAVID CARPENTER KNIGHT (August 6, 1925 - May 19, 1984) was an American author and publisher. He was best known for writing juvenile books on science, as well as fiction. He was born in Glens Falls, New York in 1925 and graduated from Union College, Schenectady, New York. A veteran of World War II, he also attended the Sorbonne in Paris. Knight worked in industrial electronics before entering book publishing and becoming the editor in a New York publishing house. A prolific author, Knight wrote numerous books, including The First Book of Sound: A Basic Guide to the Science of Acoustics (1960), The First Book of Air: A Basic Guide to the Earth’s Atmosphere (1961), Isaac Newton: Mastermind of Modern Science (1961), Johannes Kepler & Planetary Motion (1962), Copernicus: Titan of Modern Astronomy (1965), Comets (1968). He was also a contributor to The Book of Knowledge. David C. Knight died 1984, aged 58. GUSTAV SCHROTTER (May 28, 1901 - June 25, 1971) was an Austrian children’s book illustrator and comics book artist during the Golden Age of comics in the 1940s. He was born in Vienna, Austria and moved to the U.S. in 1940. He began working as a freelance artist in 1942, drawing features for comic books produced by Lloyd Jacquet of Funnies Incorporated. He illustrated Novelty’s ‘Dan’l Flannel,’ which appeared in Target Comics, Blue Bolt and Most Comics, and drew several features for Timely, including ‘The Angel,’ ‘Captain Dash,’ ‘Daredevils Three,’ ‘Nellie the Nurse,’ ‘The Patriot’ and ‘The Vision.’ In the 1950s Schrotter became a successful illustrator of educational books for young readers, including You and Your Senses (1956), Noah Carr, Yankee Firebrand (1957), River Showfolks (1957), Comets (1957), Shooting Stars (1958), Your Heart and How it Works (1959), Discovering Dinosaurs (1960), and many more. He died in Austria in 1971, aged 70.

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      The Amazing Mrs. Mimms - David C. Knight

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Amazing Mrs. Mimms, by David C. Knight

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      Title: The Amazing Mrs. Mimms

      Author: David C. Knight

      Release Date: March 10, 2010 [EBook #31585]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE AMAZING MRS. MIMMS ***

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      This etext was produced from Fantastic Universe August 1958. Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.

      Long may the good lady serve us poor folks in the dim past, writes the author, who will be remembered for his THE LOVE OF FRANK NINETEEN (Dec. 1957) and who feels that much of SF misses because it lacks the human angle. I believe you can have gimmicks and human interest too, he writes.

      the amazing mrs. mimms

      by ... David C. Knight

      Tea had a wonderful effect on her. Sipping it slowly, she

      felt the strength returning to her tired system.

      There was a muffled rushing noise and the faintly acrid smell of ion electrodes as the Time Translator deposited Mrs. Mimms back into the year 1958. Being used to such journeys, she looked calmly about with quick gray eyes, making little flicking gestures with her hands as if brushing the stray minutes and seconds from her plain brown coat.

      The scene of Mrs. Mimms' arrival in the past was the rear of a large supermarket, more specifically between two packing cases which had once contained breakfast foods. The excursion through time had evidently been a smooth one for the smile had not once left Mrs. Mimms' rotund countenance during the intervening centuries.

      Two heavy black suitcases appeared to be the lady's only luggage accompanying her from the future. These she picked up with a sharp gasp and made her way to the front of the shopping center around which slick new apartment buildings formed a horseshoe.

      Mrs. Mimms was, as usual, on another assignment for Destinyworkers, Inc.

      It was early evening at the Greenlawn Apartments, a time supposedly of contentment, yet Mrs. Mimms was quick to sense the disturbing vibrations in the warm air. She pressed through the crowds entering and leaving the supermarket. A faint mustache of perspiration formed on her upper lip. No one offered to help her with the bags. With a professional eye Mrs. Mimms noted the drawn mouths, the tense expressions typical of the Time Zone and shook her head. Central as usual had not been wrong; the Briefing Officer himself had cautioned her on what poor shape the Zonal area was in.

      Jostling Mrs. Mimms on all sides were mostly young men and

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