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Fanorama, issue 1, Spring 1946

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can? Could be, depending upon how you define Americanism. I venture to say that there are about 130 million definitions. -- Just as a point of knowledge, Everett, was sex lectured on and precautionary equipment issued at the gates a few years back, in the days when you were in the service?

Widenbeck's cover is as fine an example of scratchboard work as I have ever seen. It's inaccurate in one respect, though; I assure you that such a creature as they ape pictured was never an ancestor of homo sapiens. -- Prompted by Everett's note in Postscriptus, I studied the whole drawing pretty carefully. The symboloism you mention was duly noted -- whether or not the message it carries is a particularly fine one, as he declares, is doubtlessly a point for heated debate.

TALE OF THE 'EVANS: How could the mailing be sent out without the secretary's report, Everett, when the mailing list is based on what the secretary turns in? -- Let it be known, as of right now, to all and sundry that I'm firmly opposed to any limitation upon the content of the mailings. If another Degler gets in, we should be able to take care of him. -- Thanks to you and Harry for your plugs for Centauri, the late unlamented. I couldn't do it the way I wanted to on a limited time budget, so I finally decided not to do it at all. Subscriptions, I hasten to add, will be refunded shortly if they haven't been already.

INSPIRATION: I thought the matter of a variable mailing list has been hacked to pieces long ago...Enjoyed your short exposition on the detective story. Your ideas and preferences seem to run along the lines of the main body of moderately casual readers in America, myself included. I will make it a point to read "The Black Angel".

HORIZONS: Mel Brown has dropped out of fapa, Harry, so the four pages of reprinted book reviews were not used as activity credit, but why jump our London Times' book reviews when there are so many better and bigger targets around? It would be unlikely if more than 3 non-British members read the London Times' book section with any degree of regularity. Yet Liebscher culls material out from under our very noses: the Los Angeles Examiner is the latest, with 16 Angelenos in fapa or on the waiting list. All of course do not read the Examiner's book pages each week, but I'll bet that some of those Times' reviews were new to some of our British membership, and, as far as availability of the stuff is concerned...

Original material is surely to be desired more than reprints as a general rule, but some reprints are of definite value, the Beyond material, for example. Any rules against all reprints would have kept that out, even though, it's original circulation was just 5 copies. A much more deplorable thing to see in fapa are the issues of Phantagraph reprinting certain of the works of Edgar Allan Poe, the commonest author this side of Harold Bell Wright!

May I join the multitude in urging you to keep When We Were Very Young coming as regularly as Horizons?

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can? Could be, depending upon how you define Americanism. I venture to say that there are about 130 million definitions. -- Just as a point of knowledge, Everett, was sex lectured on and precautionary equipment issued at the gates a few years back, in the days when you were in the service? Widenbeck's cover is as fine an example of scratchboard work as I have ever seen. It's inaccurate in one respect, though; I assure you that such a creature as they ape pictured was never an ancestor of homo sapiens. -- Prompted by Everett's note in Postscriptus, I studied the whole drawing pretty carefully. The symboloism you mention was duly noted -- whether or not the message it carries is a particularly fine one, as he declares, is doubtlessly a point for heated debate. TALE OF THE 'EVANS: How could the mailing be sent out without the secretary's report, Everett, when the mailing list is based on what the secretary turns in? -- Let it be known, as of right now, to all and sundry that I'm firmly opposed to any limitation upon the content of the mailings. If another Degler gets in, we should be able to take care of him. -- Thanks to you and Harry for your plugs for Centauri, the late unlamented. I couldn't do it the way I wanted to on a limited time budget, so I finally decided not to do it at all. Subscriptions, I hasten to add, will be refunded shortly if they haven't been already. INSPIRATION: I thought the matter of a variable mailing list has been hacked to pieces long ago...Enjoyed your short exposition on the detective story. Your ideas and preferences seem to run along the lines of the main body of moderately casual readers in America, myself included. I will make it a point to read "The Black Angel". HORIZONS: Mel Brown has dropped out of fapa, Harry, so the four pages of reprinted book reviews were not used as activity credit, but why jump our London Times' book reviews when there are so many better and bigger targets around? It would be unlikely if more than 3 non-British members read the London Times' book section with any degree of regularity. Yet Liebscher culls material out from under our very noses: the Los Angeles Examiner is the latest, with 16 Angelenos in fapa or on the waiting list. All of course do not read the Examiner's book pages each week, but I'll bet that some of those Times' reviews were new to some of our British membership, and, as far as availability of the stuff is concerned... Original material is surely to be desired more than reprints as a general rule, but some reprints are of definite value, the Beyond material, for example. Any rules against all reprints would have kept that out, even though, it's original circulation was just 5 copies. A much more deplorable thing to see in fapa are the issues of Phantagraph reprinting certain of the works of Edgar Allan Poe, the commonest author this side of Harold Bell Wright! May I join the multitude in urging you to keep When We Were Very Young coming as regularly as Horizons?