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The Thing, whole no. 2, Summer 1946
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more reviews HORIZONS Widner's yarn on lack of quality in fanzines moves me to a suggestion. You now have a quantitative activity requirement in FAPA. Why not make it qualitative as well? Grant points for places achieved in the semi-annual polls. Admit to the Inner Circle only the (say) 50 fans who place highest. Allow neophytes and present second-grade members one year in which to make the Inner Circle. If they fail, kick 'em out for a year before allowing them to try again. Such a system would make border-line editors more careful about printing crud, would raise the tone of the whole association, because almost anybody could be fired out on his podex at any time. An Inner Circlite who failed to re-qualify would be just as surely as a newcomer. ..BC VAMPIRE #5 Joe Kennedy scooped me on the Newarkon--in fact, the write-up in his very readable VAMPIRE told me more than actual attendance. If this Con is typical of fan gatherings, you birds miss quite a lot of fun gabbing. Gabfests are the best part of a meet. :: Quotable: Ronald Clyne, who looks exactly what he is, a well-bred, sensitive, artistic youth, was called upon for a speech. It was short and sweet: "I'd like to make a brief appeal for an apartment!" ..HW SPECULATIONS Whatta popular mag...I was leaving the Newarkon with my copy when a little guy about up to my,er, chest , grabs it: "That's mine!" "Huh?" "That's my copy! I can tell by the faulty stapling on this copy. It's mine!" So while dreat, big Bronze Star Groveman stood helpless with an astonished hole in his face, I fought my way out--with Speculations. ..HW ELMURMURINGS So-called plot outlines without plots. The next step, Elmer, is to have characters motivated by greed, self-preservation or just plain biology working and scheming against these imaginative backdrops of yours. The most readily saleable formula of all starts this way: "Get your hero int a jam..." ..BC PHANTAGRAPH 14-4 "Cosmic thoughts ho are not to be sought by lifting skirts." ((Who's seeking cosmic thoughts?)) Is my cosmic thought going to hell? Could a skirt coyly lifted remove it? You think so? But how can you tell Unless you will venture to prove it? ..BC ROSEBUD That annoying sniffing sound which the engineers have been trying to eliminate from the sound-track for the past five reels has finally been located: It is Helen, expressing her opinion of the fantasy publishing efforts of others of her sex. This issue (Vol.2, No.1) justifies that opinion. Tucker has done an entertaining job but what Mari Beth Wheeler had to do with it is a little hard to see. Thank the gods I don't have to carry Helen pickaback through amateur journalism. She's a big girl, too. ((Vertically)) ..BC
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more reviews HORIZONS Widner's yarn on lack of quality in fanzines moves me to a suggestion. You now have a quantitative activity requirement in FAPA. Why not make it qualitative as well? Grant points for places achieved in the semi-annual polls. Admit to the Inner Circle only the (say) 50 fans who place highest. Allow neophytes and present second-grade members one year in which to make the Inner Circle. If they fail, kick 'em out for a year before allowing them to try again. Such a system would make border-line editors more careful about printing crud, would raise the tone of the whole association, because almost anybody could be fired out on his podex at any time. An Inner Circlite who failed to re-qualify would be just as surely as a newcomer. ..BC VAMPIRE #5 Joe Kennedy scooped me on the Newarkon--in fact, the write-up in his very readable VAMPIRE told me more than actual attendance. If this Con is typical of fan gatherings, you birds miss quite a lot of fun gabbing. Gabfests are the best part of a meet. :: Quotable: Ronald Clyne, who looks exactly what he is, a well-bred, sensitive, artistic youth, was called upon for a speech. It was short and sweet: "I'd like to make a brief appeal for an apartment!" ..HW SPECULATIONS Whatta popular mag...I was leaving the Newarkon with my copy when a little guy about up to my,er, chest , grabs it: "That's mine!" "Huh?" "That's my copy! I can tell by the faulty stapling on this copy. It's mine!" So while dreat, big Bronze Star Groveman stood helpless with an astonished hole in his face, I fought my way out--with Speculations. ..HW ELMURMURINGS So-called plot outlines without plots. The next step, Elmer, is to have characters motivated by greed, self-preservation or just plain biology working and scheming against these imaginative backdrops of yours. The most readily saleable formula of all starts this way: "Get your hero int a jam..." ..BC PHANTAGRAPH 14-4 "Cosmic thoughts ho are not to be sought by lifting skirts." ((Who's seeking cosmic thoughts?)) Is my cosmic thought going to hell? Could a skirt coyly lifted remove it? You think so? But how can you tell Unless you will venture to prove it? ..BC ROSEBUD That annoying sniffing sound which the engineers have been trying to eliminate from the sound-track for the past five reels has finally been located: It is Helen, expressing her opinion of the fantasy publishing efforts of others of her sex. This issue (Vol.2, No.1) justifies that opinion. Tucker has done an entertaining job but what Mari Beth Wheeler had to do with it is a little hard to see. Thank the gods I don't have to carry Helen pickaback through amateur journalism. She's a big girl, too. ((Vertically)) ..BC
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