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Fanfare, November 1950
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improvements for the big AnnIsh, huh? Don't get the impression from the above that I didn't like F-F #4. I thought it was pretty good, but not as good as it might have been. Somehow the stories were weak on endings. They didn't have the surprise or dramatic-phrase endings as the better stories in earlier issues did. I mean stories like Toby Duane's Dogs Were Howling and Andrew's The Muffler. Those were of the kind which I think most of us like. Let's have more of them ### The masters of Louaen was long and I didn't expect it to have a good ending. [A "non-sequitur" if we ever saw one. Explain, pliz.] But days after reading the editorial and the "page seven, column two reference almost had me looking for the place. ##### Virtue Will Triumph and Eternal Punishment were examples of the weak ending curse. Virtue Will Triumph was the stronger of the two, but since Eternal Punishment was the first of a series, I guess we couldn't expect much. [Another "non-sequitur"---actually all three stories were the second stories in three separate series; FAN-FARE, however, didn't publish the first in the Martin-Blake series.] The new masthead was undoubtedly the best thing in the issue. Al Leverentz must surely be a good man to have around when you're putting out a fanzine. Is he a pen name?---315 Dawson Street., Wilmington, North Carolina. [Since that seems to be a wide-spread query, we might as well let Al himself reply: "To answer this, I had thoughts of reprinting the complete record of my last few years of life, which has been attended to with the utmost of care; but the doctors caught me trying to tear it off the foot of the bed, and now they've put me in one of those rooms where you sleep on the wall. (I think so; anyway, that's where the idiots have put the mattresses!) "But to get back to the subject, I am really... or rather, I should say.... I know it's beastly of me, but i seem to have forgotten just where I'm at. Did you have a question?" --Al Leverentz.] (Pardon me while I laugh, or rather, pardon us! Joan Davis is on the radio as we write this and we can't help laughing. Contrary to popular opinion, we do have a sense of humor.) Next a note from poet Keran O'Brien: Yours truly was very disappointed in the ending of Masters of Louaen. The darn' thing was actually boring. Franklin Seller has possibilities, however, and I would like to see him again. [We laugh once more! You'll find out why when you read our first two 1951 issues. Will you be surprised!] Virtue Will Triumph was clever and amusing, and the other short, Eternal Punishment, was extremely well written, and the best of the lot. ##### When I see the Assay Report, I always wish I could remember how I rated the stories on the little ballot (an excellent idea, by the way), and never can. ####### The verse was the best part of the magazine this month. The Mighty Ships wasn't so good (look who's criticizing!), but Atom War was; Second Chance was the best. ##### The cover was swell---186-29 Avon Road, Jamaica 3, Long Island, N. Y. Now a word or twelve from our esteemed contributor, Ed Noble, Jr.: FAN-FARE #4---? It gets better and better; I'm not just being kind but being frank. How could I rate the stories without showing an immodest braggadocio or being a stinking liar? Of course I like Littlechip best because ol' Pritch is my product and he takes care of situations quite blandly. The Masters I would rate second, though I would think it inspired by Byrne and Sherman in spots. It's written page 4 (Concluded p.22)
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improvements for the big AnnIsh, huh? Don't get the impression from the above that I didn't like F-F #4. I thought it was pretty good, but not as good as it might have been. Somehow the stories were weak on endings. They didn't have the surprise or dramatic-phrase endings as the better stories in earlier issues did. I mean stories like Toby Duane's Dogs Were Howling and Andrew's The Muffler. Those were of the kind which I think most of us like. Let's have more of them ### The masters of Louaen was long and I didn't expect it to have a good ending. [A "non-sequitur" if we ever saw one. Explain, pliz.] But days after reading the editorial and the "page seven, column two reference almost had me looking for the place. ##### Virtue Will Triumph and Eternal Punishment were examples of the weak ending curse. Virtue Will Triumph was the stronger of the two, but since Eternal Punishment was the first of a series, I guess we couldn't expect much. [Another "non-sequitur"---actually all three stories were the second stories in three separate series; FAN-FARE, however, didn't publish the first in the Martin-Blake series.] The new masthead was undoubtedly the best thing in the issue. Al Leverentz must surely be a good man to have around when you're putting out a fanzine. Is he a pen name?---315 Dawson Street., Wilmington, North Carolina. [Since that seems to be a wide-spread query, we might as well let Al himself reply: "To answer this, I had thoughts of reprinting the complete record of my last few years of life, which has been attended to with the utmost of care; but the doctors caught me trying to tear it off the foot of the bed, and now they've put me in one of those rooms where you sleep on the wall. (I think so; anyway, that's where the idiots have put the mattresses!) "But to get back to the subject, I am really... or rather, I should say.... I know it's beastly of me, but i seem to have forgotten just where I'm at. Did you have a question?" --Al Leverentz.] (Pardon me while I laugh, or rather, pardon us! Joan Davis is on the radio as we write this and we can't help laughing. Contrary to popular opinion, we do have a sense of humor.) Next a note from poet Keran O'Brien: Yours truly was very disappointed in the ending of Masters of Louaen. The darn' thing was actually boring. Franklin Seller has possibilities, however, and I would like to see him again. [We laugh once more! You'll find out why when you read our first two 1951 issues. Will you be surprised!] Virtue Will Triumph was clever and amusing, and the other short, Eternal Punishment, was extremely well written, and the best of the lot. ##### When I see the Assay Report, I always wish I could remember how I rated the stories on the little ballot (an excellent idea, by the way), and never can. ####### The verse was the best part of the magazine this month. The Mighty Ships wasn't so good (look who's criticizing!), but Atom War was; Second Chance was the best. ##### The cover was swell---186-29 Avon Road, Jamaica 3, Long Island, N. Y. Now a word or twelve from our esteemed contributor, Ed Noble, Jr.: FAN-FARE #4---? It gets better and better; I'm not just being kind but being frank. How could I rate the stories without showing an immodest braggadocio or being a stinking liar? Of course I like Littlechip best because ol' Pritch is my product and he takes care of situations quite blandly. The Masters I would rate second, though I would think it inspired by Byrne and Sherman in spots. It's written page 4 (Concluded p.22)
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