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Leprechaun, v. 1, issue 1, March 1942
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LEPRECHAUN 13 [title and author's name centered; title also underlined] FAN QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS conducted by LARRY SHAW [text in two columns.] [first column] With the first issue of [underlined] Lep-rechaun, we are inaugurating a new department, which we think may be helpful. The name, tentatively, is to be "Fan Questions and Answers" if you can think of a better one after reading this, tip us off to it, will you? Here's the problem. Lots of times fans, especially new fans, might wonder about some phase of fandom or science fiction which they had heard referred to, and want to get more information on it, but not know where to get this information. This has happened to me often, as it has no doubt hap-pened to many others. A stf read-er, getting his hands on his first fanzine, comes across dozens of puzzling references. This has been talked about before, and suggestions have been [second column] made, but they have been put a-side as other things came up to occupy the minds of the fans. So this department may help out a little. Here's how. If you have a question on anything, anything at all, of a fantastic nature, send it in. We're not saying that we'll be able to answer all, or even any. If we have the answer, we'll print it. If not, and we know of some fan who we think should be able to answer it, we'll ask this fan to supply us with info. If we're absolute-ly stumped, both for the answer and for the proper person to ask, we'll just print the question, and see if any reader has the answer and will supply it. We hope you like the idea and will make use of it. [line break] [title centered] The Greatest Radio Hoax (continued form page six) Newark policemen, trying to reassure thousands of panicky citizens, received a call about a gas explosion in a six-family house at 145 Hedden Terrace. Emergency trucks raced to the scene to find more than thirty people, occupants of the house, were on the street, holding their clothes and bedding. An investigation disclosed that Louis Celowitz and his wife, Ester, tuned in on the program just as a news bulletin announced that six hundred persons had been killed in a gas attack. Getting nervous, they notified all the tenants and rushed out, taking with them whatev-er they could grab. At Irvington, N.J., hundreds of motorists who heard the announcements of the meteor and the gas attacks, shouted warnings to one another in the streets. "Drive like hell into the country; we're being bombed by enemies!", yelled one hysterical man. Motorcycle police, astounded by the sudden bursts of speed by the motorists, rushed to call boxes to inquire from headquarters about the raids. In the Sacred Heart Church in Elizabeth, priests were amazed by the sudden influx of panicky persons who rushed inside, fell on their knees, and began to pray. State police at Morristown said that dozens of calls from irate radio listeners demanded that the radio author-ities be sued, and that indictment against the broadcast company be drawn up at once, --- but to science fiction fans it was just a swell example of how scared a person can really get when a science fiction story and Orson Welles go to town... [centered] (the end)
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LEPRECHAUN 13 [title and author's name centered; title also underlined] FAN QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS conducted by LARRY SHAW [text in two columns.] [first column] With the first issue of [underlined] Lep-rechaun, we are inaugurating a new department, which we think may be helpful. The name, tentatively, is to be "Fan Questions and Answers" if you can think of a better one after reading this, tip us off to it, will you? Here's the problem. Lots of times fans, especially new fans, might wonder about some phase of fandom or science fiction which they had heard referred to, and want to get more information on it, but not know where to get this information. This has happened to me often, as it has no doubt hap-pened to many others. A stf read-er, getting his hands on his first fanzine, comes across dozens of puzzling references. This has been talked about before, and suggestions have been [second column] made, but they have been put a-side as other things came up to occupy the minds of the fans. So this department may help out a little. Here's how. If you have a question on anything, anything at all, of a fantastic nature, send it in. We're not saying that we'll be able to answer all, or even any. If we have the answer, we'll print it. If not, and we know of some fan who we think should be able to answer it, we'll ask this fan to supply us with info. If we're absolute-ly stumped, both for the answer and for the proper person to ask, we'll just print the question, and see if any reader has the answer and will supply it. We hope you like the idea and will make use of it. [line break] [title centered] The Greatest Radio Hoax (continued form page six) Newark policemen, trying to reassure thousands of panicky citizens, received a call about a gas explosion in a six-family house at 145 Hedden Terrace. Emergency trucks raced to the scene to find more than thirty people, occupants of the house, were on the street, holding their clothes and bedding. An investigation disclosed that Louis Celowitz and his wife, Ester, tuned in on the program just as a news bulletin announced that six hundred persons had been killed in a gas attack. Getting nervous, they notified all the tenants and rushed out, taking with them whatev-er they could grab. At Irvington, N.J., hundreds of motorists who heard the announcements of the meteor and the gas attacks, shouted warnings to one another in the streets. "Drive like hell into the country; we're being bombed by enemies!", yelled one hysterical man. Motorcycle police, astounded by the sudden bursts of speed by the motorists, rushed to call boxes to inquire from headquarters about the raids. In the Sacred Heart Church in Elizabeth, priests were amazed by the sudden influx of panicky persons who rushed inside, fell on their knees, and began to pray. State police at Morristown said that dozens of calls from irate radio listeners demanded that the radio author-ities be sued, and that indictment against the broadcast company be drawn up at once, --- but to science fiction fans it was just a swell example of how scared a person can really get when a science fiction story and Orson Welles go to town... [centered] (the end)
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