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Timebinder, v. 2, issue 2, whole no. 6, Spring 1946
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COMMENTS AND CRITICISMS EXCERPTS FROM THE MAIL-BAG MARTIN E. ALGER. Well, well, what is this in my mailbox? THE TIME-BINDER, no less. General comment on the mag: nice looking cover and a neat interior. Russ Whitman sure knows his army camps, the effect he mentions was very apparent, even more so overseas where there was a little or no civil authority to control the actions of men when away from the unit. From direct personal observation I know that several teen age fellows in our outfit took up most of the commin vices while in the service, just to be like the older men. Art Widner’s letter struck a responsive note, most fans are dilettantes in one way or another. As for the letters expounding the views od various of the readers in regard to religion: I wonder what was coming off here, as the fanzines I remember from before the war had nothing like that. Then I came to POSTSCRIPTUS, and the light dawned. The idea of a mag just devoted to Adventures Into Thinking is new to me, and I like it. I won’t comment on the ideas expressed, except to say that most of them show a lot of thought. I do agree with Chauvenet’s point 3; to many of us are content to say something is wrong, but do nothing if it involves the less bit of inconvenience, expense, time or risk. In other words, “It should be stopped – but let Joe do it.” **** JOHN M. CUNNINGHAM. First off, Wiedenbeck has done a magnificent job on your cover. Quite the best I’ve seen in a while. ((Many letters, besides those I am printing, comment most favorably on the fine job Jack did for me, bearing out my own feeling that is was a superb piece of art work. – EEE)). Three years, one month and 12 days verifies to my experience and state of mind what Russ Whitman says is true. I had a miserable time, in the army, simply because I had to be so unfortunate as to be among a bunch in the barracks, where one, at -21-
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COMMENTS AND CRITICISMS EXCERPTS FROM THE MAIL-BAG MARTIN E. ALGER. Well, well, what is this in my mailbox? THE TIME-BINDER, no less. General comment on the mag: nice looking cover and a neat interior. Russ Whitman sure knows his army camps, the effect he mentions was very apparent, even more so overseas where there was a little or no civil authority to control the actions of men when away from the unit. From direct personal observation I know that several teen age fellows in our outfit took up most of the commin vices while in the service, just to be like the older men. Art Widner’s letter struck a responsive note, most fans are dilettantes in one way or another. As for the letters expounding the views od various of the readers in regard to religion: I wonder what was coming off here, as the fanzines I remember from before the war had nothing like that. Then I came to POSTSCRIPTUS, and the light dawned. The idea of a mag just devoted to Adventures Into Thinking is new to me, and I like it. I won’t comment on the ideas expressed, except to say that most of them show a lot of thought. I do agree with Chauvenet’s point 3; to many of us are content to say something is wrong, but do nothing if it involves the less bit of inconvenience, expense, time or risk. In other words, “It should be stopped – but let Joe do it.” **** JOHN M. CUNNINGHAM. First off, Wiedenbeck has done a magnificent job on your cover. Quite the best I’ve seen in a while. ((Many letters, besides those I am printing, comment most favorably on the fine job Jack did for me, bearing out my own feeling that is was a superb piece of art work. – EEE)). Three years, one month and 12 days verifies to my experience and state of mind what Russ Whitman says is true. I had a miserable time, in the army, simply because I had to be so unfortunate as to be among a bunch in the barracks, where one, at -21-
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