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Acolyte, v. 2, issue 1, whole no. 5, Fall 1943
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WITHIN THE CIRCLE by Franklin Lee Baldwin -o0o- ARTIST: In the Wandrei family, artistic creative ability runs rampant. There's Don, from whose pen has sprung such fantasy classics as The Red Brain, and a book of poetry, Dark Odyssey; and Howard, who fourteen years ago unknowingly did the cover for this issue of The Acolyte. Of himself, Howard says: "Born 9/24/09, Saint Paul, Minnesota. Public schools, degree at University of Minnesota. No art schooling except for the usual classes in freehand drawing. Degree B. A. cum laude; major in American Literature, minor in anthropology. S.L.A. College. I can't rightly say "what" I've written, as I recall your asking me to do. The stories must number in the hundreds by this time, and are mostly pulp; I don't keep records any more, but four or five years ago there were 240-odd, of all kinds and lengths. I sold my first three stories, the first written,as a matter of fact, to Weird Tales, on the theory that if my brother could do it, I could do it too. About my "interest in fantasy", it must be there because I have written a lot in that vein and they were published in the old Weird Tales, Unknown, and Esquire... ...At present, I am sitting at a desk, anent what I am "engaged in". On one side of the desk is glued an electric machine which is slowly turning out a novel that has a color of fantasy. On the other side is glued a portable which turns out shorts and novelettes, mostly detective and adventure, mystery. I find I get more work done by changing machines. There is seldom time to do any drawing, aside from the fact that the eyes are in poor shape. Am married; my wife is training director at James McCreery, a department store. I have a daughter, Suzanne, going on two years." --o0o-- FANTASTIC: I Was Hitler's Doctor, by Dr. Kurt Kreuger. If you are interested in this sort of thing--and who isn't?--you can take a look into this dark hole filled with every imaginable despicable thing. This weird and hidden breeding place of ghastliness is in the head of Nazi #1. The germs have spread and caused a horrid infection over what was once a cultured land. In spreading, the seed has been nurtured in the minds of his rabble followers, resulting in such public demonstrations as the "strength through joy" movement, literally a barbarian's dream come true. Strangely enough, the beginning of all this in Adolph's nihilistic mind was a deeply seated love for his mother which grew to monstrous proportions and blossomed into such aberrational forms as fetishism, Jew-hatred, and strange sexual practices. Through the years that Kreuger treated him, many a skeleton was dragged from the closet of Hitler's mind. The thing that caused most discussion in high Nazi circles was Der Fuehrer's impotency, as evinced by his indifferent attitude towards women. What Hitler most fears is that some day proof will appear substantiating his own inner conviction that he himself is non-Aryan and of Semetic blood. All this Dr. Krueger found through psychoanalysis when treating his patient for his imagined impotence. --o0o-- FANS: Names usually suggest nationalities or races. They merely suggest, for as generation melts into succeeding generation, the designs on the cloth tend to fade together and blot out the original pattern. In the picture of a smelter gang I once saw, the names of all but one of the men ended with "-shi" or "-witz". The only man whose color was -- 22 --
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WITHIN THE CIRCLE by Franklin Lee Baldwin -o0o- ARTIST: In the Wandrei family, artistic creative ability runs rampant. There's Don, from whose pen has sprung such fantasy classics as The Red Brain, and a book of poetry, Dark Odyssey; and Howard, who fourteen years ago unknowingly did the cover for this issue of The Acolyte. Of himself, Howard says: "Born 9/24/09, Saint Paul, Minnesota. Public schools, degree at University of Minnesota. No art schooling except for the usual classes in freehand drawing. Degree B. A. cum laude; major in American Literature, minor in anthropology. S.L.A. College. I can't rightly say "what" I've written, as I recall your asking me to do. The stories must number in the hundreds by this time, and are mostly pulp; I don't keep records any more, but four or five years ago there were 240-odd, of all kinds and lengths. I sold my first three stories, the first written,as a matter of fact, to Weird Tales, on the theory that if my brother could do it, I could do it too. About my "interest in fantasy", it must be there because I have written a lot in that vein and they were published in the old Weird Tales, Unknown, and Esquire... ...At present, I am sitting at a desk, anent what I am "engaged in". On one side of the desk is glued an electric machine which is slowly turning out a novel that has a color of fantasy. On the other side is glued a portable which turns out shorts and novelettes, mostly detective and adventure, mystery. I find I get more work done by changing machines. There is seldom time to do any drawing, aside from the fact that the eyes are in poor shape. Am married; my wife is training director at James McCreery, a department store. I have a daughter, Suzanne, going on two years." --o0o-- FANTASTIC: I Was Hitler's Doctor, by Dr. Kurt Kreuger. If you are interested in this sort of thing--and who isn't?--you can take a look into this dark hole filled with every imaginable despicable thing. This weird and hidden breeding place of ghastliness is in the head of Nazi #1. The germs have spread and caused a horrid infection over what was once a cultured land. In spreading, the seed has been nurtured in the minds of his rabble followers, resulting in such public demonstrations as the "strength through joy" movement, literally a barbarian's dream come true. Strangely enough, the beginning of all this in Adolph's nihilistic mind was a deeply seated love for his mother which grew to monstrous proportions and blossomed into such aberrational forms as fetishism, Jew-hatred, and strange sexual practices. Through the years that Kreuger treated him, many a skeleton was dragged from the closet of Hitler's mind. The thing that caused most discussion in high Nazi circles was Der Fuehrer's impotency, as evinced by his indifferent attitude towards women. What Hitler most fears is that some day proof will appear substantiating his own inner conviction that he himself is non-Aryan and of Semetic blood. All this Dr. Krueger found through psychoanalysis when treating his patient for his imagined impotence. --o0o-- FANS: Names usually suggest nationalities or races. They merely suggest, for as generation melts into succeeding generation, the designs on the cloth tend to fade together and blot out the original pattern. In the picture of a smelter gang I once saw, the names of all but one of the men ended with "-shi" or "-witz". The only man whose color was -- 22 --
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