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Sun Spots, v. 4, issue 4, whole no. 16, March 1941
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March, 1941 SUN SPOTS Page 9. pages! How can you deliberately leave out such a good feature as Sun Squawks ((this ish better?--Eds)), and put in its place those so-called stories, is beyond me. Why not run more articles and features, and cut out the stories entirely? *** I lik ethe new mailing style -- gets the mag to me in much better condition. In each issue of SSp you ask for material. If you really want to get good material, write personal letters to the fans you have in mind. They always come through; ((Oh yes, we know,)) You might do the same thing about drawings. ((Whatcha think of the covers this month?)) J.W. Bell 81 Winter St. Whitman, Mass. Gents: This is to make very late acknowledgement of the receipt of SUN SPOTS as by the gift subscription of the Philcon. To put it mild, I am tickled with it from beginning to end. I like the general editorial outlook and the material published. Friend Widney remarked that I'd find out what it was I had won when I saw a copy, and I'll admit I was wondering, but it was not at all like I had been led to believe. *** I must award the top prize so far to one of your artists in last months copy. The subject was a Venusian battle or some such, and I'll be jiggered if the stiffs weren't just as stiff as the living ones. Evidently the muscles don't relax when they are cut off from life there but I must admit that his representation of the Risus Sardonicus was superb. *** The anniversary issue is a jewel. Forinstance *** Anonymous's "History of a Foolish Age" was very good. Of course his spelling is spotty, but what of it? *** Our Martian Observer" is ticklesome. I like his happy mixing of all manner of SF Mars terms and characters. *** Groveman's Philcon report was too dogoned truthful for comfort. I wonder how he'd have expressed himself if he had arrived at about 11:30 the night before, and been thrown into the joke session that went on until about 2:30 A.M.? And after all the driving in that marvelous mechanism the Skylark of WooWoo? Widner is suggesting that there be formed in fandom the really elite society of those who have wridden in the Skylark. Perhaps he's got something, but they will never have the unparalleled experiences that were had in the other one, The Skylark of Foo.... *** But the one thing that I miss the most is a report of impressions of the denizens of the Purity Cafe. That charming night club atmosphere surely deserves a write up. *** I must pass a word of regret at Friend Van Houten's resolution. Poor fellow he just took the beating that every idealist takes. A course in Chase's Tyranny of Words might help him. *** Sampler could produce quite an interesting column if he'd take a crack at something he didn't like. His good natured course of writing only of what he likes will leave him pittiflly short of critical usage that he might need sometime when something really annoys him. *** Some one of you is really asking for a blast.... Inquiring of the mighty Tex, our protent and gracious Singleton is a janitor. (Review of Nepenthe) Ye Gods of space, I can see his hair curl. Yay uh, he's a steudent, merely a graduate at MIT, you'll know that getting a Bachelor's Degree in Math. is a fearsome bit of doing. Yeess, he is definately not a janitor and one swell guy as well... I truly expect that there'll be a bit of SUN SPOT-Singleton feud to be amused at shortly. Glad
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March, 1941 SUN SPOTS Page 9. pages! How can you deliberately leave out such a good feature as Sun Squawks ((this ish better?--Eds)), and put in its place those so-called stories, is beyond me. Why not run more articles and features, and cut out the stories entirely? *** I lik ethe new mailing style -- gets the mag to me in much better condition. In each issue of SSp you ask for material. If you really want to get good material, write personal letters to the fans you have in mind. They always come through; ((Oh yes, we know,)) You might do the same thing about drawings. ((Whatcha think of the covers this month?)) J.W. Bell 81 Winter St. Whitman, Mass. Gents: This is to make very late acknowledgement of the receipt of SUN SPOTS as by the gift subscription of the Philcon. To put it mild, I am tickled with it from beginning to end. I like the general editorial outlook and the material published. Friend Widney remarked that I'd find out what it was I had won when I saw a copy, and I'll admit I was wondering, but it was not at all like I had been led to believe. *** I must award the top prize so far to one of your artists in last months copy. The subject was a Venusian battle or some such, and I'll be jiggered if the stiffs weren't just as stiff as the living ones. Evidently the muscles don't relax when they are cut off from life there but I must admit that his representation of the Risus Sardonicus was superb. *** The anniversary issue is a jewel. Forinstance *** Anonymous's "History of a Foolish Age" was very good. Of course his spelling is spotty, but what of it? *** Our Martian Observer" is ticklesome. I like his happy mixing of all manner of SF Mars terms and characters. *** Groveman's Philcon report was too dogoned truthful for comfort. I wonder how he'd have expressed himself if he had arrived at about 11:30 the night before, and been thrown into the joke session that went on until about 2:30 A.M.? And after all the driving in that marvelous mechanism the Skylark of WooWoo? Widner is suggesting that there be formed in fandom the really elite society of those who have wridden in the Skylark. Perhaps he's got something, but they will never have the unparalleled experiences that were had in the other one, The Skylark of Foo.... *** But the one thing that I miss the most is a report of impressions of the denizens of the Purity Cafe. That charming night club atmosphere surely deserves a write up. *** I must pass a word of regret at Friend Van Houten's resolution. Poor fellow he just took the beating that every idealist takes. A course in Chase's Tyranny of Words might help him. *** Sampler could produce quite an interesting column if he'd take a crack at something he didn't like. His good natured course of writing only of what he likes will leave him pittiflly short of critical usage that he might need sometime when something really annoys him. *** Some one of you is really asking for a blast.... Inquiring of the mighty Tex, our protent and gracious Singleton is a janitor. (Review of Nepenthe) Ye Gods of space, I can see his hair curl. Yay uh, he's a steudent, merely a graduate at MIT, you'll know that getting a Bachelor's Degree in Math. is a fearsome bit of doing. Yeess, he is definately not a janitor and one swell guy as well... I truly expect that there'll be a bit of SUN SPOT-Singleton feud to be amused at shortly. Glad
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