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Western Star, issue 4, September 10, 1950
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the Atlantic to the Pacific, and that seemed to have some moral connection with Korea. Doc Smith announced that he was revamping the Storm Cloud (Vortex Blaster) series to make a full novel. He admitted that it was tough work turning disconnected short stories into a first class novel. (Were they firstclass short stories, Doc?) He is also planning a new super epic with a whole new universe. An old time writer from Portland, Arthur G. Stangland, announced his imminent return to the field. Ackerman told the saga of the story of his which appeared under the Hubert G. Wells byline in OTHER WORLDS. Seems the thing had been personally rejected at least twice by every editor in the field. And in response to a question, he told how he had been called in for a suggested filming of ABBOT AND COSTELLO GO TO THE MOON. Production cancelled. Bob Tucker's next book, a mystery, with the same cast as before, will be RED HERRING, and dedicated to Anthony Boucher. The latter author pleaded that he had been too busy to do much writing, altho Bea Mahaffeey now has a Boucher yarn, and GALAXY has one scheduled for the second issue. Tony is doing fantasy reviews for the Chicago Sun-Times. He expressed considerable interest in the interrelation of stf and the detective story and he hopes to do and see better work along this borderline. He advised young would-be authors to obtain three elementals, "a pipe, a tweed jacket and a wife who works. All," he said, "are essential." E. Everett Evans told how he sold his first story after he and Ray Bradbury had rewritten it something like four dozen times. Rog Philips, Howard Browne and John de Courcey also spoke, the latter announcing that he and his wife would shortly move to Southern California. We left the convention with the slightly unpleasant feeling that the only really interesting parts were those that had not been planned for. Maybe we were overcritical because of our disapointment at not meeting the many friends from Los Angeles and New York we had expected. (Astoundingly, each of those great fan centers were represented by only three or four delegates, whereas there were 19 from Seattle. I forgot to mention above that one more delegate from San Francisco was already present when we arrived, Bill Knapheide, of whom more later. And Richard Rafael showed up Sunday morning, bringing the Bay Area total to eleven.....and one Little Woman from Berkeley...twelve. ON FLYING SAUCER . . . . . . . Saturday night when we were laboring under the influence of a spiked drink slipped to us by Hans Rusch, various parties in various rooms of the Multnomah Hotel were broken up by the house dick, and about fifty bleary eyed fans (at 3 ayem) were herded into the assembly hall to hear the greatest thing in our lives. At least that was the way Ted Sturgeon described it in a little inspirational talk he got up for the occasion. "Something greater than anything fans had ever had a chance to see or hear before." So we were quieted down, under mild protest, and the show began. Ken Arnold was introduced by John de Corcey as the first man to see the famed flying discs. Of course the ones he saw (repeatedly) weren't discs, but that's neither here nor there. He says he saw them. A private flyer in the Cascades in Washington. When he found his story met with indignation and disbelief in --- 4 ---
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the Atlantic to the Pacific, and that seemed to have some moral connection with Korea. Doc Smith announced that he was revamping the Storm Cloud (Vortex Blaster) series to make a full novel. He admitted that it was tough work turning disconnected short stories into a first class novel. (Were they firstclass short stories, Doc?) He is also planning a new super epic with a whole new universe. An old time writer from Portland, Arthur G. Stangland, announced his imminent return to the field. Ackerman told the saga of the story of his which appeared under the Hubert G. Wells byline in OTHER WORLDS. Seems the thing had been personally rejected at least twice by every editor in the field. And in response to a question, he told how he had been called in for a suggested filming of ABBOT AND COSTELLO GO TO THE MOON. Production cancelled. Bob Tucker's next book, a mystery, with the same cast as before, will be RED HERRING, and dedicated to Anthony Boucher. The latter author pleaded that he had been too busy to do much writing, altho Bea Mahaffeey now has a Boucher yarn, and GALAXY has one scheduled for the second issue. Tony is doing fantasy reviews for the Chicago Sun-Times. He expressed considerable interest in the interrelation of stf and the detective story and he hopes to do and see better work along this borderline. He advised young would-be authors to obtain three elementals, "a pipe, a tweed jacket and a wife who works. All," he said, "are essential." E. Everett Evans told how he sold his first story after he and Ray Bradbury had rewritten it something like four dozen times. Rog Philips, Howard Browne and John de Courcey also spoke, the latter announcing that he and his wife would shortly move to Southern California. We left the convention with the slightly unpleasant feeling that the only really interesting parts were those that had not been planned for. Maybe we were overcritical because of our disapointment at not meeting the many friends from Los Angeles and New York we had expected. (Astoundingly, each of those great fan centers were represented by only three or four delegates, whereas there were 19 from Seattle. I forgot to mention above that one more delegate from San Francisco was already present when we arrived, Bill Knapheide, of whom more later. And Richard Rafael showed up Sunday morning, bringing the Bay Area total to eleven.....and one Little Woman from Berkeley...twelve. ON FLYING SAUCER . . . . . . . Saturday night when we were laboring under the influence of a spiked drink slipped to us by Hans Rusch, various parties in various rooms of the Multnomah Hotel were broken up by the house dick, and about fifty bleary eyed fans (at 3 ayem) were herded into the assembly hall to hear the greatest thing in our lives. At least that was the way Ted Sturgeon described it in a little inspirational talk he got up for the occasion. "Something greater than anything fans had ever had a chance to see or hear before." So we were quieted down, under mild protest, and the show began. Ken Arnold was introduced by John de Corcey as the first man to see the famed flying discs. Of course the ones he saw (repeatedly) weren't discs, but that's neither here nor there. He says he saw them. A private flyer in the Cascades in Washington. When he found his story met with indignation and disbelief in --- 4 ---
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