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Shangri-la, issue 6, May-June 1946
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JUST A MINUTE by JEAN COX February 19th; 428th consecutive meeting: Forrest announced that A. E. Van Vogt was going to make a speech on science-fiction before the Manuscripters' Club of Southern California on the second Friday of March. Forrest will introduce the noted science-fiction author and he, in turn, will be introduced by someone else. Mr. van Vogt will be allowed to bring anyone he pleases to the speech -- and he pleases us. It was now time for our selections for the NFFF art-portfolio to be turned over to Everett. The artists whose illustrations and paintings were most frequently mentioned were Cartier, Dold, Paul, and Schneeman, along with Bok, Finlay and Rogers. February 26th; 429th consecutive meeting: Weaver-Alden-Forrest told us that apparently the AVON PUBLISHING COMPANY is not going to put out the companion fantasy magazines to the Avon Fantasy Reader; they have lost most of their interest in the finer types of literature, and, instead, have become interested in sex -- odd as this may seem. Van Vogt informed us that the rumor that SIMON & SCHUSTER are to put out SLAN and THE WEAPON MAKERS was -- just that; a rumor. As yet, no direct offers have been made to him. Arthur Louis Joquel, 11, told us that they are going to shoot off another rocket. By 'they', I mean the Pasadena Reaction Research Society, whom the L.A. Daily News called " the hotrod kids of the future." They are going to fire this one over land -- not a river. They had to swim for the last one. The purpose of the launching is to sell rocket-mail stamps and thereby gain money for the society. March 4th; 430th consecutive meeting: Forrest told us that the release of A. E. van Vogt and E. Mayne Hull's book "OUT OF THE UNKNOWN", would be delayed and gave us a novel excuse: "The book was at the binders and they moved; also, it was found that the photographs of van Vogt and his wife which were to be put on the back cover were not of the same size." Russ Hodgkins and Fred Shroyer of CARCOSA HOUSE copied these down.They thought that they might find them useful sometime in the future. Fred Shroyer told us that Ray Bradbury's "HOMECOMING" had recently received Hell in the review column of the NEW YORK MIRROR-TIMES. It was cited by the reviewer as an example of the decadence of the modern short story. The author of the column was shocked that one of the stories, one "perhaps considered the best of a collection of the "best stories of 1947" should be concerned with vampires. In the same line: According to Forrest, Robert Bloch had just written a review of van Vogt's 'BOOK OF PTATH" for 'THE ARKHAM SAMPLER" in which "he supposedly tore the book to pieces." March 11th; 431st consecutive meeting: Forrest told us that the title of the forthcoming Street and Smith UNKNOWN annual will be "FROM UNKNOWN WORLDS" and will feature a cover by Edd Cartier. FLASH!!! Your secretary has a scoop: The vile, vicious rumor circling through fandom that FFM is going to collapse is false! Speculation is rife as to what is behind these vile, vicious rumors. It is your secretary's opinion that they are being circulated by vile, vicious persons. Notice, for instance, the many other vile, vicious rumors being circulated about. One of them says that Richard S. Shaver is the penname of Alden M. Norton, associate publisher of POPULAR PUBLICATIONS; it is my belief that this is false. For the sake of his own elucidation, your secretary has collected and classified many of our current rumors for the purpose of verifying them at some - 7 -
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JUST A MINUTE by JEAN COX February 19th; 428th consecutive meeting: Forrest announced that A. E. Van Vogt was going to make a speech on science-fiction before the Manuscripters' Club of Southern California on the second Friday of March. Forrest will introduce the noted science-fiction author and he, in turn, will be introduced by someone else. Mr. van Vogt will be allowed to bring anyone he pleases to the speech -- and he pleases us. It was now time for our selections for the NFFF art-portfolio to be turned over to Everett. The artists whose illustrations and paintings were most frequently mentioned were Cartier, Dold, Paul, and Schneeman, along with Bok, Finlay and Rogers. February 26th; 429th consecutive meeting: Weaver-Alden-Forrest told us that apparently the AVON PUBLISHING COMPANY is not going to put out the companion fantasy magazines to the Avon Fantasy Reader; they have lost most of their interest in the finer types of literature, and, instead, have become interested in sex -- odd as this may seem. Van Vogt informed us that the rumor that SIMON & SCHUSTER are to put out SLAN and THE WEAPON MAKERS was -- just that; a rumor. As yet, no direct offers have been made to him. Arthur Louis Joquel, 11, told us that they are going to shoot off another rocket. By 'they', I mean the Pasadena Reaction Research Society, whom the L.A. Daily News called " the hotrod kids of the future." They are going to fire this one over land -- not a river. They had to swim for the last one. The purpose of the launching is to sell rocket-mail stamps and thereby gain money for the society. March 4th; 430th consecutive meeting: Forrest told us that the release of A. E. van Vogt and E. Mayne Hull's book "OUT OF THE UNKNOWN", would be delayed and gave us a novel excuse: "The book was at the binders and they moved; also, it was found that the photographs of van Vogt and his wife which were to be put on the back cover were not of the same size." Russ Hodgkins and Fred Shroyer of CARCOSA HOUSE copied these down.They thought that they might find them useful sometime in the future. Fred Shroyer told us that Ray Bradbury's "HOMECOMING" had recently received Hell in the review column of the NEW YORK MIRROR-TIMES. It was cited by the reviewer as an example of the decadence of the modern short story. The author of the column was shocked that one of the stories, one "perhaps considered the best of a collection of the "best stories of 1947" should be concerned with vampires. In the same line: According to Forrest, Robert Bloch had just written a review of van Vogt's 'BOOK OF PTATH" for 'THE ARKHAM SAMPLER" in which "he supposedly tore the book to pieces." March 11th; 431st consecutive meeting: Forrest told us that the title of the forthcoming Street and Smith UNKNOWN annual will be "FROM UNKNOWN WORLDS" and will feature a cover by Edd Cartier. FLASH!!! Your secretary has a scoop: The vile, vicious rumor circling through fandom that FFM is going to collapse is false! Speculation is rife as to what is behind these vile, vicious rumors. It is your secretary's opinion that they are being circulated by vile, vicious persons. Notice, for instance, the many other vile, vicious rumors being circulated about. One of them says that Richard S. Shaver is the penname of Alden M. Norton, associate publisher of POPULAR PUBLICATIONS; it is my belief that this is false. For the sake of his own elucidation, your secretary has collected and classified many of our current rumors for the purpose of verifying them at some - 7 -
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