DOLD, Douglas (Meriwether)

(c1890-1932/6)

   US editor and writer, elder brother of Elliott DOLD, with whom in 1915 he joined the Serbian army. As a result of injuries sustained in combat, he gradually became blind, but this affliction did not prevent him from editing The Danger Trail magazine, presiding over Clues, Incorporated (which published Clues: A Magazine of Detective Stories), or publishing several borderline sf/adventure tales. The last of these appears to have been "Valley of Sin" in Miracle Science and Fantasy Stories (which he also helped edit) in 1931. According to Murray LEINSTER, DD died of pneumonia after his house caught fire and the firemen sprayed him with water.

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   See also: ASTOUNDING SCIENCE-FICTION.