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Fanorama, issue 1, Spring 1946

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ELMURMURINGS: I, too, would like to read "The Stone" with the original, unbastardized ending, but any copies of that issue of Beyond which may have formerly existed around town seem to have vanished in a puff or something or the other. I think that the four of five paragraphs that I wrote follow along the same line as Dr. Aiken's ending, as that was described to me by Mel Brown while we were trying to dig up that Beyond.

I'm the last person on earth that anyone would expect to lecture on industry, but I do wish that Meyer would get ambitious and get an Elmurmurings in every mailing. I can't do much yelling about the vice of indolence (people who live in glass houses shouldn't go around peeking in other people's keyholes, you know), but I can declare in no uncertain terms that more Perdue would be very nice indeed. -- I bet I'm the twelfth person to take note of the face that Elmper spelled his own name wrong.

BROWSINGS: The average literary critic reviewing suddenly popular fantasy rarely goes into the subject deeply enuf to do justice to what he's talking about. One critic who recently damned HPL up one side and down the other listed on the pocketbook and cheap reprint items in his bibliography, evidently not even knowing about the Arkham House editions!

FULL-LENGTH ARTICLES: Speer must have a wonderful filing system.

SUSPRO: If the waiting listeners continue moving in as fast as they are at the moment (which will mean a strict application of admission credentials), the limit may not have to be raised. But I'm afraid that a new equilibrium will be achieved soon and the waiting list will then pile up again. I was on it for over a year. What would the postage bill be if all the magazines that were postmailed this last quarter went out from Seattle in the bundle? -- The Reader's Digest was okay back in the days when it was the only one of its kind, before there were half a dozen or so superior imitations.

WALT'S RAMBLINGS: Rooster's note on Koestler's play seems woefully inadequate after reading SDR's review.

EN GARDES: The Salvation Army has endeared itself to me because of a service you neglected to mention. Laney and Liebscher, will, I think, side with me on this matter. -- Watch out for the postal inspectors, Al. The subtitle on your travelogue might be interpreted in at least two other ways.

PHANTEUR: Mercenary it may be, but DB's idea for selling surplus stock to the waiting listeners is highly meritable and should be carried out by whoever has the authority. It would serve in 3 ways: getting rid of the stock, adding to the treasury and giving the waiting listeners a background for the current goings-ons before they get in. I also check on the laureate committee proposal. When was the constitution distributed to the membership last? Offhand, I don't recall ever having received one in the last 16 months or so that I've been a member, but I probably did. I could look though my fapa file, but that would involve work.

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ELMURMURINGS: I, too, would like to read "The Stone" with the original, unbastardized ending, but any copies of that issue of Beyond which may have formerly existed around town seem to have vanished in a puff or something or the other. I think that the four of five paragraphs that I wrote follow along the same line as Dr. Aiken's ending, as that was described to me by Mel Brown while we were trying to dig up that Beyond. I'm the last person on earth that anyone would expect to lecture on industry, but I do wish that Meyer would get ambitious and get an Elmurmurings in every mailing. I can't do much yelling about the vice of indolence (people who live in glass houses shouldn't go around peeking in other people's keyholes, you know), but I can declare in no uncertain terms that more Perdue would be very nice indeed. -- I bet I'm the twelfth person to take note of the face that Elmper spelled his own name wrong. BROWSINGS: The average literary critic reviewing suddenly popular fantasy rarely goes into the subject deeply enuf to do justice to what he's talking about. One critic who recently damned HPL up one side and down the other listed on the pocketbook and cheap reprint items in his bibliography, evidently not even knowing about the Arkham House editions! FULL-LENGTH ARTICLES: Speer must have a wonderful filing system. SUSPRO: If the waiting listeners continue moving in as fast as they are at the moment (which will mean a strict application of admission credentials), the limit may not have to be raised. But I'm afraid that a new equilibrium will be achieved soon and the waiting list will then pile up again. I was on it for over a year. What would the postage bill be if all the magazines that were postmailed this last quarter went out from Seattle in the bundle? -- The Reader's Digest was okay back in the days when it was the only one of its kind, before there were half a dozen or so superior imitations. WALT'S RAMBLINGS: Rooster's note on Koestler's play seems woefully inadequate after reading SDR's review. EN GARDES: The Salvation Army has endeared itself to me because of a service you neglected to mention. Laney and Liebscher, will, I think, side with me on this matter. -- Watch out for the postal inspectors, Al. The subtitle on your travelogue might be interpreted in at least two other ways. PHANTEUR: Mercenary it may be, but DB's idea for selling surplus stock to the waiting listeners is highly meritable and should be carried out by whoever has the authority. It would serve in 3 ways: getting rid of the stock, adding to the treasury and giving the waiting listeners a background for the current goings-ons before they get in. I also check on the laureate committee proposal. When was the constitution distributed to the membership last? Offhand, I don't recall ever having received one in the last 16 months or so that I've been a member, but I probably did. I could look though my fapa file, but that would involve work.