Author:Donald Keith

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This is the author blurb from the book Time Machine to the Rescue by Donald Keith.

Donald Keith is the pen name of a father-and-son writing team that began collaborating in fiction in 1942. Both, Donald and Keith Monroe, have books published under their own names. Their time machine stories have been appearing in Boys' Life Magazine for several years.--Allynh 18:07, 19 January 2009 (UTC)
Supposedly complete list of their Polaris Patrol stories, found in a Yahoo group:
       as by Donald Keith:
           The Day We Explored the Future (ss) Boys’ Life Dec 1959
           The Time Machine Flies Backwards (ss) Boys’ Life Feb 1960
           How We Got the Mind-Reading Pills (ss) Boys’ Life Jun 1960
           Our Time Machine at the Jamboree (ss) Boys’ Life Jul 1960
           Marco Polo and Our Time Machine (ss) Boys’ Life Oct 1961
           The Time Machine Slips a Cog (ss) Boys’ Life Feb 1962
           The Message (ss) Boys’ Life Nov 1962
           Mutiny in the Time Machine (sl) Boys’ Life Dec 1962, etc. (4-part serial)
           Time Machine Cracks a Safe (ss) Boys’ Life Jun 1964
           Time Machine to the Rescue (ss) Boys’ Life Oct 1964
           The Time Machine Gets Stuck (sl) Boys’ Life Feb 1965, etc. (3-part serial)
           The Time Machine Hunts a Treasure (sl) Boys’ Life Apr 1967, etc. (3-part serial)
           The Dog from the Time Machine (ss) Boys’ Life Dec 1968
           The Time Machine and the Generation Gap (ss) Boys’ Life Sep 1970
           The King and the Time Machine (ss) Boys’ Life Aug 1971
           The Time Machine Cleans Up (ss) Boys’ Life Feb 1973
           Santa Claus and the Time Machine (ss) Boys’ Life Dec 1973 
       by Keith Monroe (after Donald Monroe's death in 1973):
           The Time Machine Twins the Jamboree (ss) Boys’ Life Aug 1973
           The Time Machine Fights Earthquakes (ss) Boys' Life Nov 1974
           The Time Machine Saves a Patriot (ss) Boys’ Life Apr 1975
           The Time Machine Kidnaps a Parade (ss) Boys’ Life Jul 1976 
           Target Timbuktu (ss) Boys' Life Boys' Life Sep 1988
           Why We Kidnapped Our Scoutmaster (ss) Boys' Life Feb 1989
           A Pirate Took Our Time Machine! (ss) Boys' Life Sep 1989  (Horzel 09:11, 17 August 2016 (UTC))