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Page Fourteen NEW FANDOM SO THEY SAY (Inasmuch as the monthly publication of "New Fandom" leaves us in a position of stenciling this issue before comments on the last have been received we will have to fill the department with various miscellaneous compiled in the past few months which might be of interest. ED) JOSEPH F.X. LACOVINO, of Auburn, N.Y., writes us: Dear Mr. Moskowitz. "Time, Incorporated, has been good enough to give me your name as the Managing Sectretary of New Fandom. An article concerning your organization, you will recall, appeared in the issue of Time of 10 July, 1939. "I have as a private collection a number of magazine firsts (Vol. 1, No. 1). I wonder if there might be among them some issues of interest to you or the members of your organization, and which they might desire to purchase of me? "I have a list of these and will be glad to lend it to you, if you will communicate with me." (New Fandom cannot print your address, Mr. Lacovino, because that would constitute an advertisement. But we will be glad to give same to any New Fandom member who thinks he might be interested. We cannot guarantee this, as has benn our policy inasmuch as we have had no relations with Mr. Lacovino.....ED.) VIRGINIA CARTOFALSO, Sec etary of "Thomas Alva Edison Room", Nichols Junior High School, Mount Vernon, N.Y., asks: Dear Mr. Moskowitz: "The Editor of Time Magazine has referred us to you. We are anxious to obtain the address of Mr. Ray Cummings, a former secretary to Mr. Thomas A. Edison. "Please be assured that we will appreciate any assistance that you may render to us in this matter." (Enclosed with her letter, Miss (we assume) Cartofalso included a letter from the staff of "Time magazine which we reprint below) Nov. 16, 1939 Dear Miss Cartofalso: "Sorry we haven't the address of Mr. Ray Cummings on hand. "The Managing Secretary of the fanclub for readers of scientifiction - "New Fandom"- would be able to give it to you, very likely. He is Mr. Sam Moskowitz of 603 So. 11th St., Newark, N.J. Sincerely yours, Signed Dorothy Scott, Subscribers Service (We have forwarded Miss Cartofalso's request to Ray Cummings....ED.) ALAN H. KELSO, of Havana, Cuba informs:- "As I have been able to notice, you are one of the most capable scientifictionists in the field (Blush.. Blush...ED.) "Therefore I should like to bring the following matter to your attention. "Long before I was a reader of Science fiction, I was working on a means of translation in space, not depending on air or any other surrounding medium except the ether. "After years of experimenting I have finally found a means of translation (using only the ether as a medium, just as rockets do), But WITHOUT ANY EXPLOSIONS, AND WITHOUT HURLING AWAY OR LOSING ANY MAT (turn page) THE 1940 CHICAGO SCIENCEFICTION CONVENTION WILL BE PARTIALLY FINANCED BY NEW FANDOM!!! HELP SUPPORT IT BY JOINING NEW FANDOM AT ONCE!!!!!!!
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Page Fourteen NEW FANDOM SO THEY SAY (Inasmuch as the monthly publication of "New Fandom" leaves us in a position of stenciling this issue before comments on the last have been received we will have to fill the department with various miscellaneous compiled in the past few months which might be of interest. ED) JOSEPH F.X. LACOVINO, of Auburn, N.Y., writes us: Dear Mr. Moskowitz. "Time, Incorporated, has been good enough to give me your name as the Managing Sectretary of New Fandom. An article concerning your organization, you will recall, appeared in the issue of Time of 10 July, 1939. "I have as a private collection a number of magazine firsts (Vol. 1, No. 1). I wonder if there might be among them some issues of interest to you or the members of your organization, and which they might desire to purchase of me? "I have a list of these and will be glad to lend it to you, if you will communicate with me." (New Fandom cannot print your address, Mr. Lacovino, because that would constitute an advertisement. But we will be glad to give same to any New Fandom member who thinks he might be interested. We cannot guarantee this, as has benn our policy inasmuch as we have had no relations with Mr. Lacovino.....ED.) VIRGINIA CARTOFALSO, Sec etary of "Thomas Alva Edison Room", Nichols Junior High School, Mount Vernon, N.Y., asks: Dear Mr. Moskowitz: "The Editor of Time Magazine has referred us to you. We are anxious to obtain the address of Mr. Ray Cummings, a former secretary to Mr. Thomas A. Edison. "Please be assured that we will appreciate any assistance that you may render to us in this matter." (Enclosed with her letter, Miss (we assume) Cartofalso included a letter from the staff of "Time magazine which we reprint below) Nov. 16, 1939 Dear Miss Cartofalso: "Sorry we haven't the address of Mr. Ray Cummings on hand. "The Managing Secretary of the fanclub for readers of scientifiction - "New Fandom"- would be able to give it to you, very likely. He is Mr. Sam Moskowitz of 603 So. 11th St., Newark, N.J. Sincerely yours, Signed Dorothy Scott, Subscribers Service (We have forwarded Miss Cartofalso's request to Ray Cummings....ED.) ALAN H. KELSO, of Havana, Cuba informs:- "As I have been able to notice, you are one of the most capable scientifictionists in the field (Blush.. Blush...ED.) "Therefore I should like to bring the following matter to your attention. "Long before I was a reader of Science fiction, I was working on a means of translation in space, not depending on air or any other surrounding medium except the ether. "After years of experimenting I have finally found a means of translation (using only the ether as a medium, just as rockets do), But WITHOUT ANY EXPLOSIONS, AND WITHOUT HURLING AWAY OR LOSING ANY MAT (turn page) THE 1940 CHICAGO SCIENCEFICTION CONVENTION WILL BE PARTIALLY FINANCED BY NEW FANDOM!!! HELP SUPPORT IT BY JOINING NEW FANDOM AT ONCE!!!!!!!
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