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Fantasite, v. 2, issue 3, whole no. 9, August-September 1942

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whom the Lackey fellow acquired last February 1 or thereabouts) but each days alas! were gone forever, so on June 21 we repaired once more to the YMCA and spent most of the evening listening to records -- Walt Daugherty's Shangri-La set, which were largely inaudible on Morrie's portable player and only a few of which were worth listening to anyway (in Ghu's name why did Walt have to include things like that rendition by some female of that song about Dover?), and our latest dramatic effort (completed at North St. Paul only a couple of hours before the meeting), "Dr. Bartham of London", a horror-revenge play about a mad surgeon who tears out his enemy's heart with his bare hands, written by and starring a friend of Morrie's named Don Loucks. Shortly before this meeting Bronson has finally made good his threat to move to Minneapolis, and shortly afterwards Morrie followed suit, so subsequent MFS activities have been carried on as much between meetings as at them, since the three officers live within a mile and a half of each other.

Shortly before the next meeting, members (and barbaric Twin City fans not belonging to the club) were surprised to discover in their mailboxes a sheet by Gergen called the MFS Bulletin, giving dope on our current and proposed activities, and this publication appeared with fair bi-weekly regularity for four more issues, being traded with other fan magazines to provide copies of the latter for our library. At the July 5th meeting only six people showed up at the Y, despite the attraction of receiving the first Tycho and the eighth Fantasite, so the group adjourned to Morrie's new apartment without accomplishing anything except the approval of Gordon Dickson's idea of publishing a detailed history of the MFS. The meeting of July 19 at Morrie's was considerably larger, and an excellent s-f quiz prepared by Phil took up enough time to enable Russell to evade completing his hoary Weinbaum talk and giving another he had rashly promised on Frank K. Kelly's stories. The success of that quiz inspired the holding of an impromptu one at the August 2nd meeting, for which each member had to write five questions, and compose a science-fiction story on the sport when he missed three. Gordon Dickson's "Confession" unexpectedly proved to be by far the most hilarious of these minor epics and resulted in his being appointed official writer of our installment of "If I Werewolf", which appeared in the latest Spaceways.
----Samuel D. Russell, Director
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whom the Lackey fellow acquired last February 1 or thereabouts) but each days alas! were gone forever, so on June 21 we repaired once more to the YMCA and spent most of the evening listening to records -- Walt Daugherty's Shangri-La set, which were largely inaudible on Morrie's portable player and only a few of which were worth listening to anyway (in Ghu's name why did Walt have to include things like that rendition by some female of that song about Dover?), and our latest dramatic effort (completed at North St. Paul only a couple of hours before the meeting), "Dr. Bartham of London", a horror-revenge play about a mad surgeon who tears out his enemy's heart with his bare hands, written by and starring a friend of Morrie's named Don Loucks. Shortly before this meeting Bronson has finally made good his threat to move to Minneapolis, and shortly afterwards Morrie followed suit, so subsequent MFS activities have been carried on as much between meetings as at them, since the three officers live within a mile and a half of each other. Shortly before the next meeting, members (and barbaric Twin City fans not belonging to the club) were surprised to discover in their mailboxes a sheet by Gergen called the MFS Bulletin, giving dope on our current and proposed activities, and this publication appeared with fair bi-weekly regularity for four more issues, being traded with other fan magazines to provide copies of the latter for our library. At the July 5th meeting only six people showed up at the Y, despite the attraction of receiving the first Tycho and the eighth Fantasite, so the group adjourned to Morrie's new apartment without accomplishing anything except the approval of Gordon Dickson's idea of publishing a detailed history of the MFS. The meeting of July 19 at Morrie's was considerably larger, and an excellent s-f quiz prepared by Phil took up enough time to enable Russell to evade completing his hoary Weinbaum talk and giving another he had rashly promised on Frank K. Kelly's stories. The success of that quiz inspired the holding of an impromptu one at the August 2nd meeting, for which each member had to write five questions, and compose a science-fiction story on the sport when he missed three. Gordon Dickson's "Confession" unexpectedly proved to be by far the most hilarious of these minor epics and resulted in his being appointed official writer of our installment of "If I Werewolf", which appeared in the latest Spaceways. ----Samuel D. Russell, Director ------------------------------------- [crossword puzzle solution]