His family changed its residence frequently during the Great Depression, as his father, John Alfred Graham, moved around the country looking for work.

[1] Graham was a power plant engineer until the beginning of World War II, when he worked as a shipyard welder and longshoreman.

"[5] To facilitate more work with Palmer and his associate editor, William Hamling, Graham moved to Evanston, Illinois.

In response to falling sales, due to the Shaver Mystery Hoax, Palmer instituted a column of fan news and fanzine reviews in the March 1948 issue of Amazing Stories.

[7] Phillips' 1949 work, Time Trap, published by Century Pocket Books (#116) in mass-market rack size, has been cited as being one of the first original science fiction paperbacks ever printed, if not the very first.

As a wedding gift, William Hamling hired Wolf to write a column identical to The Club House, Fandora's Box, for his fledgling science fiction magazine, Imagination.

[10] Shasta subsequently went out of business, having been caught up in a scandal when it failed to pay Philip José Farmer for winning a writing contest, and Phillips' book was never printed.

A Club House installment was published in that year's March issue, and Phillips submitted a short story some months later.

With the dwindling acceptance of his fiction, Phillips wrote a series of articles for Mystic magazine, yet another Palmer publication, with such philosophical topics as "Searching for the Elixir of Life," written under the pseudonym Drew Ames.

Both were members of Outlanders, a noted West Coast science fiction fan club, and in 1958 Phillips was made Program Director when the group hosted the Solacon (SoLaCon: South Los Angeles Convention; the official nickname for the Sixteenth World Science Fiction Convention, also called the 11th Westercon).

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