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Le Zombie, v. 4, issue 5, whole no. 40, July 1941
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(6) ** Holmes received the package October 1. The inspector (censor?) who intercepted it this time has a scar on his right thumb, a minor criminal record, and was not a suspicious soul. He merely threw the package on the floor to see if it would explode, didn't open it. Holmes had just signed up for the army and was wearing his uniform and smelling of ale when the package arrived. Busy clearing up his collection in preparation for an expected long absence, he seized the paper to wrap the Unknowns and sent them off at once to America and me. They reached me in good order after enduring one more censor and a submarine scare. And there is the truly astounding tale of a bit of wrapping paper. Think of the thousands upon thousands of miles it has travelled, hands upon hands it has known, perhaps a foot or two. But unlike the old envelope, I cannot keep it. Once more it must serve. I need some paper to mail some books to Korshak. ----- LEZ-ETTES chapter 1: Pond chapter 2: Algae chapter 3: Some scum VISITING FIREMAN DEPT: Heinsberg dropped in for a a week-end early in June. As mentioned last issue, he is now at a CCCamp but forty miles distant. He plans some sort of a fanzine, probably as a supplement to LeZ. He has a heckto and a mimeo at his disposal. The camp recreation directior is attempting to have him edit and publish the camp newspaper, at present defunct. Somehow or other -- Marky can't imagine how-- the guy discovered he, Marky, used to publish a amateur magazine. Mark says he is positive he never told the chap the name of his magazine was Ad Astra, or that it sold for a dime a copy, etc. etc. If you didn't catch his address last issue, here 'tis: 693rd Co., C.C.C., Camp Pekin, Pekin, Ill. LEZ-ETTES chapter 1: ESP chapter 2: "Ah!" chapter 3: slap! THAT MAN IS HERE AGAIN DEPT: Have on hand a letter from J. Clevelan Miske (perhaps you have heard mentioned of his name in the fanzines of late?). Jack plans a reappearance on the stage this summer, providing the circumstances (locally) are right. He also plans to publish Bizarre again. Scoop! Scoop! But we don't know whether printed or mimeo, he didn't say. ADVERTISING DEPT: At hand is a letetr, enclosing 10c, from Marin Alger, Box 520, Mackinaw City, Michigan. He says he wishes to advertise in LeZ he has for sale three issues of Black Cat magazine: January 1897 (50c), December 1900 (40c), and December 1910 (25c). What Alger didn't know till now is that LeZ does not accept, or run, advertisements. We will keep the dime to teach him the better. Martin passes along the information that magazines of that day printed the same (quote) darn (unquote) advertisements our promags do today. This surprises us no end, for if that certain guy was actually and literally talking with God forty years ago, somebody must be pretty tired today! HEIGHT OF LOYALTY (OR SOMETHING) DEPT: We have heard of at least two fans giving up their jobs because of Denvention. Lew Martin, so he could more ably further it, and John Millard, so he could attend it. I guess I am old fashioned, or a traitor to fandom. I can't see the point of voluntarily parting company with one's monetary source, just to go to a convention and starve and be pushed around for three or four days. (Starve: to live on a gulped diet of hot dogs and beer.) (Pushed around: to be run over by some one else getting to the original before you.)
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(6) ** Holmes received the package October 1. The inspector (censor?) who intercepted it this time has a scar on his right thumb, a minor criminal record, and was not a suspicious soul. He merely threw the package on the floor to see if it would explode, didn't open it. Holmes had just signed up for the army and was wearing his uniform and smelling of ale when the package arrived. Busy clearing up his collection in preparation for an expected long absence, he seized the paper to wrap the Unknowns and sent them off at once to America and me. They reached me in good order after enduring one more censor and a submarine scare. And there is the truly astounding tale of a bit of wrapping paper. Think of the thousands upon thousands of miles it has travelled, hands upon hands it has known, perhaps a foot or two. But unlike the old envelope, I cannot keep it. Once more it must serve. I need some paper to mail some books to Korshak. ----- LEZ-ETTES chapter 1: Pond chapter 2: Algae chapter 3: Some scum VISITING FIREMAN DEPT: Heinsberg dropped in for a a week-end early in June. As mentioned last issue, he is now at a CCCamp but forty miles distant. He plans some sort of a fanzine, probably as a supplement to LeZ. He has a heckto and a mimeo at his disposal. The camp recreation directior is attempting to have him edit and publish the camp newspaper, at present defunct. Somehow or other -- Marky can't imagine how-- the guy discovered he, Marky, used to publish a amateur magazine. Mark says he is positive he never told the chap the name of his magazine was Ad Astra, or that it sold for a dime a copy, etc. etc. If you didn't catch his address last issue, here 'tis: 693rd Co., C.C.C., Camp Pekin, Pekin, Ill. LEZ-ETTES chapter 1: ESP chapter 2: "Ah!" chapter 3: slap! THAT MAN IS HERE AGAIN DEPT: Have on hand a letter from J. Clevelan Miske (perhaps you have heard mentioned of his name in the fanzines of late?). Jack plans a reappearance on the stage this summer, providing the circumstances (locally) are right. He also plans to publish Bizarre again. Scoop! Scoop! But we don't know whether printed or mimeo, he didn't say. ADVERTISING DEPT: At hand is a letetr, enclosing 10c, from Marin Alger, Box 520, Mackinaw City, Michigan. He says he wishes to advertise in LeZ he has for sale three issues of Black Cat magazine: January 1897 (50c), December 1900 (40c), and December 1910 (25c). What Alger didn't know till now is that LeZ does not accept, or run, advertisements. We will keep the dime to teach him the better. Martin passes along the information that magazines of that day printed the same (quote) darn (unquote) advertisements our promags do today. This surprises us no end, for if that certain guy was actually and literally talking with God forty years ago, somebody must be pretty tired today! HEIGHT OF LOYALTY (OR SOMETHING) DEPT: We have heard of at least two fans giving up their jobs because of Denvention. Lew Martin, so he could more ably further it, and John Millard, so he could attend it. I guess I am old fashioned, or a traitor to fandom. I can't see the point of voluntarily parting company with one's monetary source, just to go to a convention and starve and be pushed around for three or four days. (Starve: to live on a gulped diet of hot dogs and beer.) (Pushed around: to be run over by some one else getting to the original before you.)
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