Merril-approved '59 stories: Collins, Cores, Correy, & Cottrell

Judith Merril, favorite of the critics, cheerleader of the New Wave, recognized a lot of authors whose names begin with the letter "C" on her honorable members list at the back of her 1960 "Best of" anthology. Today we'll read four stories by such writers, none of whom I think I have read stories by before. We don't just read the same old authors here at MPorcius Fiction Log--we also read authors I have never heard of before! Today's never-heard-of authors are Les Collins, Lucy Cores, Lee Correy, and C. L. Cottrell. Their names here in this para are links to internet archive scans of the 1959 science fiction magazine or book in which each of today's stories appears so it will be easy for you to read along and then lament that I have totally misunderstood the stories and exhibited my bad taste and thus contributed to the spread of the disinformation, misinformation, malinformation, and indigestion that characterizes these interwebs in the year of our Lord 2026."Question of Comfort" by…