Malcolm Jameson

"[3] P. Schuyler Miller wrote that Jameson drew on his own naval experience to give the stories "a warm atmosphere of reality.

"[4] Alfred Bester described meeting Jameson in about 1939: "Mort Weisinger introduced me to the informal luncheon gatherings of the working science fiction authors of the late thirties... Malcolm Jameson, author of navy-oriented space stories, was there, tall, gaunt, prematurely grey, speaking in slow, heavy tones.

"[5] His novella "Blind Alley", first published in the June 1943 issue of Unknown, was the basis for the 1963 Twilight Zone episode "Of Late I Think of Cliffordville" starring Albert Salmi, John Anderson, and Julie Newmar.

"Blind Alley," which begins in 1942, is about a greedy, grouchy New York financier, Jack Feathersmith, whose many complaints about his life are tinged with nostalgic remembrances of his hometown, Cliffordsville (whose exact location is not specified but, from references in the text, may be in Texas not far from Dallas), around the turn of the 20th century.

He is acquainted with a provider of occult services who he decides to contact for a trip back in time 40 years to Cliffordsville when his health begins to fail and he is forced to retire.