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Centauri, issue 4, Summer 1945

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Page 6     A Few Choice Comments

I usually put acknowledgements about here, so, before I forget it, I must mention that thanks are due Forrest J Ackerman for some valuable assistance on this issue. He saw to the litho work for the front cover for me, and also supplied the excellent fan caricatures by Virgil Partch and Doug Heyes that adorn page thirteen. Thank you most kindly, Forry.

The cover artist, E. T. Beaumant, is, of course, the McNutt-Bellingham combination. As far as the cover itself goes, what do you think of this sort of thing? You'll grant that it is a bit different from the ordinary run of fanzine fronts. Incidentally, I intended to have a slightly wider margin, but neglected to tell Forry to have the dimensions reduced. Henceforth, I'll make a memo of any such intentions ---- and promptly lose it, of course.

Private Wilkie Conner, of the United States Marine Corps, whose second short article for Centauri appears on page nineteen of this issue, is now overseas with the Third Marines. In fact, he wrote this article shortly before entering the Iwo Jima fracas and received my answering letter there. I assume that he is, if still with the same outfit, on Okinawa at this writing, so more material from him may well have to wait until the cease of hostilities in the Pacific. Come to think of it, I may not get the next cent out until then anyway.

Now back to little Andrew again.....

By the first of July I hope to be firmly established in tumultuous Shangri-La. My decision to move was not, to quelch any insidious rumors Watson may have been circulating about fandom, influenced in any appreciable extent by the proximity of the LASFS (though it is nice to know people in a strange town), but was made at the time I chose the college I desired to attend. My choice was the University of Southern California, where I plan to major in journalism and minor in almost anything else that strikes my fancy. I venture to state that cent will suffer further from publication delays, et al, as a result of this intended move, since I will undoubtedly be pretty well tied up in educational matters as far as time and finances go.

Of course, Los Angeles has a first-class mimeograph and some A-One crank-turners, and perhaps I'll get a little help with the purely mechanical work involved --- that first-class mimeo will print cent about five times as fast as my hand-fed, hand-slip-sheeted affair does --- but I'm still not making promises. What little time I shall be able to expend on fan activities will have to be divided up between personal contacts, a little selected correspondence and reading in the fantasy line, an occasional contribution for the Fantasy Amateur Press Association, and, way at the bottom of the heap, Centauri.

Perhaps by the time you read this my pilgrimage will have been successfully completed. In any case, I shall let all subscribers and correspondents know of my address and further plans as soon as I have been located down there.

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Page 6 A Few Choice Comments I usually put acknowledgements about here, so, before I forget it, I must mention that thanks are due Forrest J Ackerman for some valuable assistance on this issue. He saw to the litho work for the front cover for me, and also supplied the excellent fan caricatures by Virgil Partch and Doug Heyes that adorn page thirteen. Thank you most kindly, Forry. The cover artist, E. T. Beaumant, is, of course, the McNutt-Bellingham combination. As far as the cover itself goes, what do you think of this sort of thing? You'll grant that it is a bit different from the ordinary run of fanzine fronts. Incidentally, I intended to have a slightly wider margin, but neglected to tell Forry to have the dimensions reduced. Henceforth, I'll make a memo of any such intentions ---- and promptly lose it, of course. Private Wilkie Conner, of the United States Marine Corps, whose second short article for Centauri appears on page nineteen of this issue, is now overseas with the Third Marines. In fact, he wrote this article shortly before entering the Iwo Jima fracas and received my answering letter there. I assume that he is, if still with the same outfit, on Okinawa at this writing, so more material from him may well have to wait until the cease of hostilities in the Pacific. Come to think of it, I may not get the next cent out until then anyway. Now back to little Andrew again..... By the first of July I hope to be firmly established in tumultuous Shangri-La. My decision to move was not, to quelch any insidious rumors Watson may have been circulating about fandom, influenced in any appreciable extent by the proximity of the LASFS (though it is nice to know people in a strange town), but was made at the time I chose the college I desired to attend. My choice was the University of Southern California, where I plan to major in journalism and minor in almost anything else that strikes my fancy. I venture to state that cent will suffer further from publication delays, et al, as a result of this intended move, since I will undoubtedly be pretty well tied up in educational matters as far as time and finances go. Of course, Los Angeles has a first-class mimeograph and some A-One crank-turners, and perhaps I'll get a little help with the purely mechanical work involved --- that first-class mimeo will print cent about five times as fast as my hand-fed, hand-slip-sheeted affair does --- but I'm still not making promises. What little time I shall be able to expend on fan activities will have to be divided up between personal contacts, a little selected correspondence and reading in the fantasy line, an occasional contribution for the Fantasy Amateur Press Association, and, way at the bottom of the heap, Centauri. Perhaps by the time you read this my pilgrimage will have been successfully completed. In any case, I shall let all subscribers and correspondents know of my address and further plans as soon as I have been located down there. --Continued to page 23 --