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The Science Fiction Fan, v. 4, issue 9, whole no. 45, April 1940
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FAN................3 WESTERN UNION TO Writer's Digest Commentary by R. W. Lowndes You may (or may not) have heard of an article in the Writer's Digest for January 1940 by one Jerry Westerfield, entitled "The Sky's no Limit". The article dealt with science-fiction magazines in general, Amazing Stories and Fantastic Adventures in particular, and ended up with remarks upon fandom. Unfortunately these remarks were erroneous in many places, and in some cases might be construed as being libelous. Consequently, your columnist wrote to the editors of the Writer's Digest setting things aright, and requesting that our letter be published in the Forum column. The editors replied about three weeks later, claiming that our letter was much too long (although they have many times published letters twice as long in reference to nothing at all) and asking us to boil it down "so we can give the case succinctly" We did so, mailing said replies on March 4th. Two issues of the Writer's Digest have since appeared, without mention of the letter, but we hope they will publish it in their next issue. As a matter of interest we append the text of he second shortened letter we sent them. "Forum Dept. Writer's Digest, 22 East 12th
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FAN................3 WESTERN UNION TO Writer's Digest Commentary by R. W. Lowndes You may (or may not) have heard of an article in the Writer's Digest for January 1940 by one Jerry Westerfield, entitled "The Sky's no Limit". The article dealt with science-fiction magazines in general, Amazing Stories and Fantastic Adventures in particular, and ended up with remarks upon fandom. Unfortunately these remarks were erroneous in many places, and in some cases might be construed as being libelous. Consequently, your columnist wrote to the editors of the Writer's Digest setting things aright, and requesting that our letter be published in the Forum column. The editors replied about three weeks later, claiming that our letter was much too long (although they have many times published letters twice as long in reference to nothing at all) and asking us to boil it down "so we can give the case succinctly" We did so, mailing said replies on March 4th. Two issues of the Writer's Digest have since appeared, without mention of the letter, but we hope they will publish it in their next issue. As a matter of interest we append the text of he second shortened letter we sent them. "Forum Dept. Writer's Digest, 22 East 12th
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