Merril-approved '59 (kinda) stories: A Bester, R Brossard & F Brown

You are going back, young man (or lady), back...back...back...to 1959! And what will you do in the year in which Fidel Castro took over the land where Desi Arnaz was born, the year Richard Nixon and Nikita Khrushchev debated the best way to squeeze a lemon, the year the first Barbie dolls hit the market? You're going to read magazines, of course! But you won't be staying long in the year Norm Macdonald, Tracey Ullman and Colin Quinn were born! So which magazines do you read? Well, we have a guide for you! Judith Merril read all the magazines in 1959, and even produced a list of stories worth reading from that year!Yes, folks, today we're going to read more stories from Judith Merril's alphabetical list of honorable mentions at the back of her 1960 volume Year's Best SF: 5th Annual Edition. We're still on the "B"s, and today we've got stories by Alfred Bester, Raymond Brossard and Fredric Brown. The Brown entry is a little odd and may not quite fit the supposed rules of this blog post…