FOOTNOTES
ASF: Astounding Science-Fiction magazine.
skunk cabbage: a strong-smelling plant that grows in wet places of eastern North America. It appears early in the spring as a clump of large, broad, and veiny leaves and has an odor resembling that of a skunk.
Pathfinder: a US news magazine.
AP: Associated Press; a cooperative news agency for US papers that sold copy to daily papers throughout the country.
Winchell: Walter Winchell, syndicated newspaper columnist.
Satevepost: Saturday Evening Post magazine.
Number seven key: reference to the analogy in Dianetics where the mind is compared to an adding machine, and the aberrations or problems of the mind are compared to a "held down seven" producing incorrect answers
Mr. Dessler's: deeply moving plea was not at all treated lightly and, in fact, LRH brought him into the Los Angeles Foundation as an executive.