Talk:The Mildenhall Treasure

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== First publication source ==

In this article on the Roald Dahl book The Mildenhall Treasure it states that the story was first published in the Ladies Home Journal.

However, in my 1978 paperback copy of The Wonderful story of Henry Sugar and six more (ISBN: 014 047.140 5) on the copyright page it says "Earlier versions of 'The Mildenhall Treasure' and 'A Piece of Cake' were first published in the Saturday Evening Post". Dahl writes a page and a half introduction to the short story including, after having interviewed Butcher for several hours: "I wrote the story as truthfully as I possibly could and sent it off to America. It was bought by a magazine called the Saturday Evening Post, and I was well paid."

It seems that, according to http://www.scripophily.net/curpubcom.html , the Curtis Publishing Company owned both Ladies Home Journal and Saturday Evening Post.

But, since there is no quoted source in the article for the Ladies Home Journal as the first publication, it should surely be changed to Saturday Evening Post.

MontagueMewsWest (talk) 22:40, 10 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Last edited at 22:40, 10 March 2009 (UTC). Substituted at 08:16, 30 April 2016 (UTC)

Roald Dahl fighter pilot[edit]

I haven't read this for a long time so it's not clear to me if the explanation is just the fictionalised account in the book of how he came by the story but it reads here in this Wiki article as if it's true.

He can't have been at any RAF base in England just before he became a fighter pilot as he was out of the UK entirely from 1938 (some sources say earlier) to 1941 and he was a fighter pilot in 1940-1941 (primarily in the Mediterranean theatre) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.237.234.221 (talk) 14:48, 8 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]