Reggie Vliet and Sandra Vanderveer want to marry, but Colonel Vanderveer refuses his permission on the basis that Reggie’s family is not of the same standing as the long-established Vanderveers. So Reggie sets out to take down the Vanderveers in the times of Waterloo and the Civil War.

O’Brien was a prolific author who died in action during World War II at age 26.
“Supposing,” he wondered, “that those two old ducks in the pictures on the walls hadn’t been famous?”

Variants

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  1. “The Man Who Changed History,” as by John York Cabot, in Amazing, February 1942.
  2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . written by David Wright O’Brien as by John York Cabot