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Observations, issue 3, 1940's?
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I make a mess of it, and I'd like to see others adopt the same policy when they lack the ability of a Widner or a Rostler. Light: The convention account made this the most interesting issue of Light in a long while. A bit of editing, to keep out such things as a cataloging of Toronto's streets, would have put it up on the Laney writing level. The George Bain newspaper account strikes me as a rather fair and impartial account of how a fan convention would seem to a complete outsider. If a good press is wanted for the Cinvention, asking the reporters to submit their stories for approval is the worst possible way to get it. Best method is to appoint someone in advance to be contact man for the press. That person would then prepare a fact sheet, making no attempt to write the story but giving the correct and full details of the convention, turn the fact sheet over to the press and hope for the best. Galactic Island: Coswal is becoming as talkative as an old woman. Lengthy mailing reviews are all right, Walt, if they don't give an impression like these of containing every thought that passed through your mind as you went through the magazine. Only a very few of those thoughts are apt to be interesting to the rest of us. I also deplore the commercialism that pervades this issue. If you must try to make money out of your hobby, can't you confine those efforts to out and out advertising on a couple of pages? Thots: I'm very suspicious of the deeper motives of fans who put out fanzines that say that they are no longer fans. However, I can't find anything else wrong with this publication, and I hope to see it with the smallest possible amount of irregularity. If Technocracy decided to teach semantics, I'll bet it would be a highly censored version. Too thorough a training in the subject would equip too many people to see the shallowness of the proposition that claims Technocracy to be substantially different from any other form of dictatorship. Singer's case is very interesting. I can understand the motives of those who crusade against organized religion, present-day churches, or the Bibles on the grounds that these things are doing humanity harm. But I can't comprehend the point in crusading for atheism; it seems the most negative kind of purpose that anyone could adopt. As for Spike Jones, I like to hear his stuff provided I don't have to listen to any given piece more than once. I can't conceive of anyone enjoying the same joke repeated over and over, and that's about all that the owning of Spike Jones records would produce. That winds up Warner's reviews. --------------------------
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I make a mess of it, and I'd like to see others adopt the same policy when they lack the ability of a Widner or a Rostler. Light: The convention account made this the most interesting issue of Light in a long while. A bit of editing, to keep out such things as a cataloging of Toronto's streets, would have put it up on the Laney writing level. The George Bain newspaper account strikes me as a rather fair and impartial account of how a fan convention would seem to a complete outsider. If a good press is wanted for the Cinvention, asking the reporters to submit their stories for approval is the worst possible way to get it. Best method is to appoint someone in advance to be contact man for the press. That person would then prepare a fact sheet, making no attempt to write the story but giving the correct and full details of the convention, turn the fact sheet over to the press and hope for the best. Galactic Island: Coswal is becoming as talkative as an old woman. Lengthy mailing reviews are all right, Walt, if they don't give an impression like these of containing every thought that passed through your mind as you went through the magazine. Only a very few of those thoughts are apt to be interesting to the rest of us. I also deplore the commercialism that pervades this issue. If you must try to make money out of your hobby, can't you confine those efforts to out and out advertising on a couple of pages? Thots: I'm very suspicious of the deeper motives of fans who put out fanzines that say that they are no longer fans. However, I can't find anything else wrong with this publication, and I hope to see it with the smallest possible amount of irregularity. If Technocracy decided to teach semantics, I'll bet it would be a highly censored version. Too thorough a training in the subject would equip too many people to see the shallowness of the proposition that claims Technocracy to be substantially different from any other form of dictatorship. Singer's case is very interesting. I can understand the motives of those who crusade against organized religion, present-day churches, or the Bibles on the grounds that these things are doing humanity harm. But I can't comprehend the point in crusading for atheism; it seems the most negative kind of purpose that anyone could adopt. As for Spike Jones, I like to hear his stuff provided I don't have to listen to any given piece more than once. I can't conceive of anyone enjoying the same joke repeated over and over, and that's about all that the owning of Spike Jones records would produce. That winds up Warner's reviews. --------------------------
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