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<p class="MsoPlainText"></p><div style="background-color: transparent; margin-top: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-right: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Early in Alfred Bester's career he won a</span><a href="http://www.otrcat.com/science-fiction-in-radio.html"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;"> </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Sci Fi</span></a><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 153); text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;"> </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">short story competition that his friend</span><a href="http://www.otrcat.com/science-fiction-authors-p-48627.html"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;"> </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Robert Heinlein</span></a><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;"> declined to enter.</span><a href="http://www.otrcat.com/science-fiction-authors-p-48627.html"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;"> </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Heinlein</span></a><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 153); text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;"> </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">instead sold his story to another magazine for $70, where as the prize was only $50.</span></div><br>