Robert A. Carter, 32-year-old hack writer of Larchmont, N. Y., hit upon a sure-fire plan for getting stories published and paid for. Unwilling to risk the unsure rewards of grinding out adventure tales for paper pulp magazines, mailing and re-mailing them to apathetic editors, he decided to model his compositions after successful stories already printed. Not only did he set about copying them as to sense, but as to content, letter perfect.
Appreciative Plagiarist Carter conned periodicals, selected a daring yarn from Air Trails, fiction monthly. Last July, he sold it, retyped under the name "Fortune Flying," to Fiction House, Inc.,...
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