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Fantasy Times, v. 2, issue 19, whole no. 50, May 11, 1947

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THE MAY ESFA MEETING
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result. "This was seconded by Thos. S. Gardner, and the club voted for this overwhelmingly- with the exception of a small group of dissenters.
     JOE Kennedy reviewed the outstanding fantasy events of the past month, followed by Dr. Gardner's talk on the essentials for the writing and appreciation of science-fiction, & also endorsing the views that juvenile antics by the younger fans must be dispensed with if science-fiction fandom is to continue to progress.
     RAYMOND Van Houten, old-time fan just back from overseas, endorsed the view that the onus of "escape" literature on science-fiction had been proven wrong and refuted, as Moskowitz had previously said, by reviewers of the science-fiction anthologies in the two leading scientific journals in the United States, The Scientific Monthly, and the Chemical and Engineering News, and urged that science-fiction side in with the scientists rather then the literary men for its own best interest.
HANNES Bok, well known artist and author, was special guest of the ESFA and he spoke briefly on various artistic matters, and answered questions directed to him.
RONALD Clyne, who is now doing a major illustrating job for a new limited editions group, said that after attending meetings of several other major fan organizations he could honestly say that ESFA was far ahead of any other similar organization in set-up, outlook and mature program.
PAUL Donnis O'Connor, publisher of The Fox Women, said that he hoped to have the second Merritt, The Black Wheel, ready for distribution at the Philcon and spoke of a great feature, revealed to the club in confidence, he planned to have presented at the Philcon. He stated that there was a strong possibility his company could get a hitherto unpublished novel of the Olaf Stapleton of extreme lenngth. He also revealed that Dennis Wheatly and Louis Tracey were pseodynms of M.P Shiel;
ABE Oshinsky spoke of a tour by jeep down the Pan-American Highway to South America, that he and a friend of his were planning in order to view first hand the forthcoming eclipse for the World Astronomical Association of which Abe Oshinsky is President.
(If Oshinsky makes the trip, he will act as Fantasy-Times and Cosmic News Service reporter and send back weekly reports.)
This plan received a large write-up in the Brooklyn Eagle, primier Brooklyn and Long Island paper.
ANTHONY Ceaser the revealed that in examing the library of the great poet, Edward Markham, who wrote the world famous Man With the Hoe, at the Webster University on Staten Island, he discovered that 1/3 of a gigantic library of thousands of volumes was fantasy. Edward Markham had been a science-fiction and fantasy fan!
THEN adjournment was called to one of the most successful Eastern Science-Fiction Association (ESFA) meetings ever held.
THE COSMIC REPORTER 
Edited by Lane Stannard
THE Green Men by Harold M. Sherman, published in Amazing Stories late last year, has just appeared in pocket-book form. Published by Century Publications of Chicago, as Number 104 of their Century Advanture Series, it has a very good cover, similar to the one used on Amazing, and contains 128 pages. It is printed complete
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THE MAY ESFA MEETING (continued from page, 53, column 1) result. "This was seconded by Thos. S. Gardner, and the club voted for this overwhelmingly- with the exception of a small group of dissenters. JOE Kennedy reviewed the outstanding fantasy events of the past month, followed by Dr. Gardner's talk on the essentials for the writing and appreciation of science-fiction, & also endorsing the views that juvenile antics by the younger fans must be dispensed with if science-fiction fandom is to continue to progress. RAYMOND Van Houten, old-time fan just back from overseas, endorsed the view that the onus of "escape" literature on science-fiction had been proven wrong and refuted, as Moskowitz had previously said, by reviewers of the science-fiction anthologies in the two leading scientific journals in the United States, The Scientific Monthly, and the Chemical and Engineering News, and urged that science-fiction side in with the scientists rather then the literary men for its own best interest. HANNES Bok, well known artist and author, was special guest of the ESFA and he spoke briefly on various artistic matters, and answered questions directed to him. RONALD Clyne, who is now doing a major illustrating job for a new limited editions group, said that after attending meetings of several other major fan organizations he could honestly say that ESFA was far ahead of any other similar organization in set-up, outlook and mature program. PAUL Donnis O'Connor, publisher of The Fox Women, said that he hoped to have the second Merritt, The Black Wheel, ready for distribution at the Philcon and spoke of a great feature, revealed to the club in confidence, he planned to have presented at the Philcon. He stated that there was a strong possibility his company could get a hitherto unpublished novel of the Olaf Stapleton of extreme lenngth. He also revealed that Dennis Wheatly and Louis Tracey were pseodynms of M.P Shiel; ABE Oshinsky spoke of a tour by jeep down the Pan-American Highway to South America, that he and a friend of his were planning in order to view first hand the forthcoming eclipse for the World Astronomical Association of which Abe Oshinsky is President. (If Oshinsky makes the trip, he will act as Fantasy-Times and Cosmic News Service reporter and send back weekly reports.) This plan received a large write-up in the Brooklyn Eagle, primier Brooklyn and Long Island paper. ANTHONY Ceaser the revealed that in examing the library of the great poet, Edward Markham, who wrote the world famous Man With the Hoe, at the Webster University on Staten Island, he discovered that 1/3 of a gigantic library of thousands of volumes was fantasy. Edward Markham had been a science-fiction and fantasy fan! THEN adjournment was called to one of the most successful Eastern Science-Fiction Association (ESFA) meetings ever held. THE COSMIC REPORTER Edited by Lane Stannard THE Green Men by Harold M. Sherman, published in Amazing Stories late last year, has just appeared in pocket-book form. Published by Century Publications of Chicago, as Number 104 of their Century Advanture Series, it has a very good cover, similar to the one used on Amazing, and contains 128 pages. It is printed complete (continued on page 56, column 1)