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Fan, issue 6, February 1946
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FAN HONOLULU REFUGEE BY CARLTON J FASSBEINDER C. J. Fern Jr., known to his intimates as Mike, and also renowned as "The Little Man with the Big Briefcase," made his first appearance among Los Angeles fan circles just over 4 years ago, coming down to the LASFS following an attendance of the first Staplecon in San Francisco. After one year of active participation on the local merry-go-round, Mike decided that the Pentagon Building in Washington D.C. would be left for the Capitol, where he monitored enemy broadcasts for the FBIs. Fern, a small, heavy-bottom fellow, scarcely five feet tall hails from Hawaii, where his father manages radio station KTOH not to mention having a finger in other island enterprises. While in his native habitat C. J. was a sort of newspaper man. He served, during this first stay in Los Angeles, as an efficiency expert in a furniture factory, conveniently owned by an uncle. In addition to this he has been active in the LASFS, usually performing tasks no one else would consider, such as dummying, stencilling, contacting publishers and authors, writing official correspondence, emptying wastepaper baskets, delivering messages, passing on hot tips, reading our scientifiction mags for us, and scurrying about on strange missions of his own. The initial appearance of this small, highly active organism (believed by many to be powered by a diluted solution of adrenalin, pumped by a Wright-Cyclone turbine generator) was at the first open house of the LASFS, whereat he came by invitation of Ackerman. Fern does not live for stf. alone. For some time the LASFS was littered with great yellow sheets of mimeographed matter being Fern's "Shortwave Information," a magazine for radio hams. Aside from a very comprehensive knowledge of radio, Fern and Mel Brown explored the intricate workings of Southern California's urban transportation system. Between them they discovered how to go from Pasadena to El Monte by way of Glendale, Van Nuys, Brentwood, and Watts. This is tantamount to a New Yorker going from Manhattan to the Bronx by the way of Williamsburg Bridge, the Brooklyn Speedway, Cross Island, Whitestone Bridge and Eastern Blvd., Grand Blvd., and 161st. When not locatable in town on a Sunday, it was a sure bet that these two were out on one of their utterly mad transportation adventures. 10
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FAN HONOLULU REFUGEE BY CARLTON J FASSBEINDER C. J. Fern Jr., known to his intimates as Mike, and also renowned as "The Little Man with the Big Briefcase," made his first appearance among Los Angeles fan circles just over 4 years ago, coming down to the LASFS following an attendance of the first Staplecon in San Francisco. After one year of active participation on the local merry-go-round, Mike decided that the Pentagon Building in Washington D.C. would be left for the Capitol, where he monitored enemy broadcasts for the FBIs. Fern, a small, heavy-bottom fellow, scarcely five feet tall hails from Hawaii, where his father manages radio station KTOH not to mention having a finger in other island enterprises. While in his native habitat C. J. was a sort of newspaper man. He served, during this first stay in Los Angeles, as an efficiency expert in a furniture factory, conveniently owned by an uncle. In addition to this he has been active in the LASFS, usually performing tasks no one else would consider, such as dummying, stencilling, contacting publishers and authors, writing official correspondence, emptying wastepaper baskets, delivering messages, passing on hot tips, reading our scientifiction mags for us, and scurrying about on strange missions of his own. The initial appearance of this small, highly active organism (believed by many to be powered by a diluted solution of adrenalin, pumped by a Wright-Cyclone turbine generator) was at the first open house of the LASFS, whereat he came by invitation of Ackerman. Fern does not live for stf. alone. For some time the LASFS was littered with great yellow sheets of mimeographed matter being Fern's "Shortwave Information," a magazine for radio hams. Aside from a very comprehensive knowledge of radio, Fern and Mel Brown explored the intricate workings of Southern California's urban transportation system. Between them they discovered how to go from Pasadena to El Monte by way of Glendale, Van Nuys, Brentwood, and Watts. This is tantamount to a New Yorker going from Manhattan to the Bronx by the way of Williamsburg Bridge, the Brooklyn Speedway, Cross Island, Whitestone Bridge and Eastern Blvd., Grand Blvd., and 161st. When not locatable in town on a Sunday, it was a sure bet that these two were out on one of their utterly mad transportation adventures. 10
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