Some people actually believed it--one of the reasons I was commanded to never submit anything like that again. A few wrote to the mythical addresses in the article, asking about .29 caliber barrels and bullets, and were puzzled when their letters came back stamped "Address Unknown." And about three YEARS after the article appeared, one of the guys at Redding phoned me, barely able to speak because he was laughing so hard: Somebody had just called them, asking if they had any B-29 dies in stock....
