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Quanta, v. 1, issue 3, August 1949
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15. WSFA HIGHLIGHTS by Bob Pavlat MEETING OF JULY 31, 1949: A rather small meeting, as are all fifth Sunday meetings of WSFA, only 13 members present. A 14th person was present, Lee D. Quinn of Queens and "ONE FAN'S OPINION." We picked up quite a number of interesting items from Lee, most of them not for publication. Among the items are --- Queens will bid for the 50CON.. unless the bidder at the Cinvention decides not to...How many bids will there be from New York, two or three? Newark too? RUMORS: From other sources.... November is the mystery date for aSF, Amazing does not plan to be left in the lurch....Rog Phillips will be at the Cinvention...will rap. WSFA has been discussing a pin for the last month or more---as far as I know they haven't planned a secret code yet. That may come. Seriously, it isn't a bad idea. Nice looking job too, thanks mainly to George Earley. The WSFA '50CON bid was again discussed, but with much less fervor than usual. Possibly because the club was, at that meeting, about evenly split pro-east and pro-west, and everyone is now willing to let the fight be decided at the CON rather than here in Washington. Among the smoke filled rooms at the CON one will contain many members of the Fantasy Artisans. They are actually trying to get some info on various clubs for the purpose of considering them at that time re: the 50CON. I got a letter from Dietz a couple of weeks ago, answered it, and presented it to the club. The club thought I was biased. A committee meeting was held, and a new letter was drawn up, written by myself, and passed on by committee chairman, Bill Evans. When the letter was read at this meeting there were some doubtful head shakes, and one accusation of true statements being so worded that, even tho they supposedly were pro-WSFA, they turned out pro-west (if anyone doesn't know yet, I back the west). Now I ask you? Maybe it's just as well that there was no carbon of the notes added to the letter by Evans. Since it was too late to stop the letter it was accepted by the club. Author's Note: It was suggested in a recent article by a certain author that WSFA print some sort of minutes in QUANTA. I was not the only author of that, but it seems I will also be the author of the minutes, because the Secretary's minutes are official and at times not of general interest. Only the notes of one meeting are included, but if they are well received, the notes of all the meetings will become a regular occurence in QUANTA. The minutes, if continued, will be shorter than they are this time---roughly the size of SHAGGIE'S "Just a Minute."
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15. WSFA HIGHLIGHTS by Bob Pavlat MEETING OF JULY 31, 1949: A rather small meeting, as are all fifth Sunday meetings of WSFA, only 13 members present. A 14th person was present, Lee D. Quinn of Queens and "ONE FAN'S OPINION." We picked up quite a number of interesting items from Lee, most of them not for publication. Among the items are --- Queens will bid for the 50CON.. unless the bidder at the Cinvention decides not to...How many bids will there be from New York, two or three? Newark too? RUMORS: From other sources.... November is the mystery date for aSF, Amazing does not plan to be left in the lurch....Rog Phillips will be at the Cinvention...will rap. WSFA has been discussing a pin for the last month or more---as far as I know they haven't planned a secret code yet. That may come. Seriously, it isn't a bad idea. Nice looking job too, thanks mainly to George Earley. The WSFA '50CON bid was again discussed, but with much less fervor than usual. Possibly because the club was, at that meeting, about evenly split pro-east and pro-west, and everyone is now willing to let the fight be decided at the CON rather than here in Washington. Among the smoke filled rooms at the CON one will contain many members of the Fantasy Artisans. They are actually trying to get some info on various clubs for the purpose of considering them at that time re: the 50CON. I got a letter from Dietz a couple of weeks ago, answered it, and presented it to the club. The club thought I was biased. A committee meeting was held, and a new letter was drawn up, written by myself, and passed on by committee chairman, Bill Evans. When the letter was read at this meeting there were some doubtful head shakes, and one accusation of true statements being so worded that, even tho they supposedly were pro-WSFA, they turned out pro-west (if anyone doesn't know yet, I back the west). Now I ask you? Maybe it's just as well that there was no carbon of the notes added to the letter by Evans. Since it was too late to stop the letter it was accepted by the club. Author's Note: It was suggested in a recent article by a certain author that WSFA print some sort of minutes in QUANTA. I was not the only author of that, but it seems I will also be the author of the minutes, because the Secretary's minutes are official and at times not of general interest. Only the notes of one meeting are included, but if they are well received, the notes of all the meetings will become a regular occurence in QUANTA. The minutes, if continued, will be shorter than they are this time---roughly the size of SHAGGIE'S "Just a Minute."
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