Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.3 4.3bsd-beta 6/6/85; site topaz.RUTGERS.EDU Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!gamma!epsilon!zeta!sabre!petrus!bellcore!decvax!genrad!panda!talcott!harvard!seismo!columbia!topaz!lah%ucbmiro From: lah%ucbmiro@Berkeley Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers Subject: L. Ron Hubbard Message-ID: <3495@topaz.RUTGERS.EDU> Date: Fri, 30-Aug-85 21:05:00 EDT Article-I.D.: topaz.3495 Posted: Fri Aug 30 21:05:00 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 1-Sep-85 12:54:32 EDT Sender: daemon@topaz.RUTGERS.EDU Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J. Lines: 12 From: lah%ucbmiro@Berkeley (Commander RYN Leigh Ann Hussey) The story was told me as follows: many of the then-new (now rich and famous) Science Fiction authors were sitting around griping about how they weren't making any money. Then Heinlein or someone said, "Well, you KNOW the only way to make money these days is to found a new religion or invent a new therapy." At which point, Hubbard got a funny look in his eye, dashed out of the room, and the rest is history... (Naturally, I have no idea if this is true, but it sure makes a better story than some Hubbard's written!) Leigh Ann