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Phantagraph, v. 8, issue 3, whole 32, August 1940

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to bear up under the terrific burden, and his poetry is permeated with a certain nostalgia at once romantic and real. He is always inviting us down to his rnacho near the Rio Grande, where, he vows, he will make of us a rip-roaring, cow-punching mass of 100% muscle. We always decline politely. . . Les lic Perri needs a press agent with a sense of Humor. We met the lady recently (Perri), and can assure readers that she does not ride broomsticks of nights or stalk about looking like lapis-lazuli of days. She throws thing when annoyed and rarely misses; moreover, she's not half bad at wrestling. You can see her latest exhibit at the Kingsport Foundation, daly and Sundays, up until the end of next month. Arkham House is now considering a folio of her first four exhibits. . . Don Wellheim is the genius (or is it fiend?) behind "Dawdlings", subtitled "a compendium of useless misinformation. It has, to date, we believe, seen 15 printings and has been translated 5 times in the past week, so that it's now available in 35 languages on this planet. Interplanetary Culture, Inc., is now dickering for Shaardolian, Martian, and Ganymedian rights . . .John B. Michel is one of the planet's foremost exponents of nonconformist and rebel poetry. His works have been suppressed more often. and by more planetary administration (please imagine an "s" at the end of that last word) than those of any other writer of the past century. They finally grew tried of arresting him. At the present moment, all his works are available in one edition or another, throughout the System. The day that all bans are withdrawn everywhere, he will, we fear, commit hara-kiri in despair. . . Frederik Gregorius von Hachdon und Pohl started editing his science-fiction magazine 30 years ago. At that time there were a dozen or more other magazines of the same general type. Now, only Astonishing Stories remains, selling at the original price, but vastly altered as to size, makeup, material and content. Almosr as Astonishing is Doc Lowndes' record of a letter in every issue from the very beginning. Pohl is raising giant centipedes and training them to exterminate Gottesman's cockroaches. Some day . .  .

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to bear up under the terrific burden, and his poetry is permeated with a certain nostalgia at once romantic and real. He is always inviting us down to his rnacho near the Rio Grande, where, he vows, he will make of us a rip-roaring, cow-punching mass of 100% muscle. We always decline politely. . . Les lic Perri needs a press agent with a sense of Humor. We met the lady recently (Perri), and can assure readers that she does not ride broomsticks of nights or stalk about looking like lapis-lazuli of days. She throws thing when annoyed and rarely misses; moreover, she's not half bad at wrestling. You can see her latest exhibit at the Kingsport Foundation, daly and Sundays, up until the end of next month. Arkham House is now considering a folio of her first four exhibits. . . Don Wellheim is the genius (or is it fiend?) behind "Dawdlings", subtitled "a compendium of useless misinformation. It has, to date, we believe, seen 15 printings and has been translated 5 times in the past week, so that it's now available in 35 languages on this planet. Interplanetary Culture, Inc., is now dickering for Shaardolian, Martian, and Ganymedian rights . . .John B. Michel is one of the planet's foremost exponents of nonconformist and rebel poetry. His works have been suppressed more often. and by more planetary administration (please imagine an "s" at the end of that last word) than those of any other writer of the past century. They finally grew tried of arresting him. At the present moment, all his works are available in one edition or another, throughout the System. The day that all bans are withdrawn everywhere, he will, we fear, commit hara-kiri in despair. . . Frederik Gregorius von Hachdon und Pohl started editing his science-fiction magazine 30 years ago. At that time there were a dozen or more other magazines of the same general type. Now, only Astonishing Stories remains, selling at the original price, but vastly altered as to size, makeup, material and content. Almosr as Astonishing is Doc Lowndes' record of a letter in every issue from the very beginning. Pohl is raising giant centipedes and training them to exterminate Gottesman's cockroaches. Some day . . .