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Ember, issue 11, September 1, 1946

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*EMBER*
1 Sept 1946
11-11-11-11-11-11-11-11-11-11
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Published weekly at 1329 N. [illegible] Milwaukee, Wisc. by Donn Brazier. Price: 2c per copy. One money from today - October 1 - the number sheets will go up one, making two full sheets of news, views, and muse. The price will go up to 5c per copy. All long term 2c subscriptions made before that date will continue at that rate, so subscribe now.
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THIS IS A
frontier publication
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87 - A clipping from Henry Elsner: New York, Aug. 7 (AP): SIDEWALKS OF N.Y. TO GET A MOVE ON. "A dream center for shopping, offices and amusements -- where the streets will be warm in winter and cool in summer and pedestrians will be moving along on sliding sidewalks instead of having to walk -- will be under construction here within a year, its planners announced." It goes on to say that it will cost $50,000,000 and be built on 20 acres near the site of the '39 World's Fair. A 310-story office building will be the nucleus of the center. Henry adds: "Remember 'ROADS MUST ROLL'?".

88 - Bratton says: "Speaking of Robert Blochs, the catalog lists a letter in Wonder Stories, 1932 July, page 184 from Robert G. Bloch, M.D., Associate Professor of Medicine, University of Chicago!" Kennedy speaks: "It would be very easy, come to think of it, for somebody to pose as a famous stf author and walk into a fan gathering without anybody getting wise to the deception." I have a letter from the real Bloch I guess for the letterhead is decorated with the Gustav Marx Advertising Agency. He says: "Next time anyone draws a caricature of me they can at least keep me under 50...like this..." And over to the left is a trace of the head that appeared below a signature that seemed to read "Bob". Bob and I had lunch together last week, and he showed me two originals from the brush of Ralph Rayburn Phillips. These paintings are far and away more worthy of the word "art" than any of the magazine illustrations everyone is so wild about. With their color and line abstractions the viewer can see in the painting justabout any form he so imagines. As something so worthwhile it is with regret that the fans at the Pacificon, where Phillips so kindly donated them for auction, gave the pictures such a disgraceful reputation.

89 - Al Lopez writes: "In 1933 Karl G. Jansky of Bell Telephone Labs published a paper on Electrical Disturbances of an Extra-Terrestrial Origin. He describes tracing these 'signals' over a period of several years until he determined that they came from a point near Sagittarius in the Milky Way. It is also the point toward which the solar system is apparently moving with respect to the other stars. The frequency of the signals was approx. 20.5 megacycles. (For further information see Proceedings of the Institute of Radio Engineers, Oct. 1933).

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*EMBER* 1 Sept 1946 11-11-11-11-11-11-11-11-11-11 -------------------------- Published weekly at 1329 N. [illegible] Milwaukee, Wisc. by Donn Brazier. Price: 2c per copy. One money from today - October 1 - the number sheets will go up one, making two full sheets of news, views, and muse. The price will go up to 5c per copy. All long term 2c subscriptions made before that date will continue at that rate, so subscribe now. -------------------------- THIS IS A frontier publication -------------------------- 87 - A clipping from Henry Elsner: New York, Aug. 7 (AP): SIDEWALKS OF N.Y. TO GET A MOVE ON. "A dream center for shopping, offices and amusements -- where the streets will be warm in winter and cool in summer and pedestrians will be moving along on sliding sidewalks instead of having to walk -- will be under construction here within a year, its planners announced." It goes on to say that it will cost $50,000,000 and be built on 20 acres near the site of the '39 World's Fair. A 310-story office building will be the nucleus of the center. Henry adds: "Remember 'ROADS MUST ROLL'?". 88 - Bratton says: "Speaking of Robert Blochs, the catalog lists a letter in Wonder Stories, 1932 July, page 184 from Robert G. Bloch, M.D., Associate Professor of Medicine, University of Chicago!" Kennedy speaks: "It would be very easy, come to think of it, for somebody to pose as a famous stf author and walk into a fan gathering without anybody getting wise to the deception." I have a letter from the real Bloch I guess for the letterhead is decorated with the Gustav Marx Advertising Agency. He says: "Next time anyone draws a caricature of me they can at least keep me under 50...like this..." And over to the left is a trace of the head that appeared below a signature that seemed to read "Bob". Bob and I had lunch together last week, and he showed me two originals from the brush of Ralph Rayburn Phillips. These paintings are far and away more worthy of the word "art" than any of the magazine illustrations everyone is so wild about. With their color and line abstractions the viewer can see in the painting justabout any form he so imagines. As something so worthwhile it is with regret that the fans at the Pacificon, where Phillips so kindly donated them for auction, gave the pictures such a disgraceful reputation. 89 - Al Lopez writes: "In 1933 Karl G. Jansky of Bell Telephone Labs published a paper on Electrical Disturbances of an Extra-Terrestrial Origin. He describes tracing these 'signals' over a period of several years until he determined that they came from a point near Sagittarius in the Milky Way. It is also the point toward which the solar system is apparently moving with respect to the other stars. The frequency of the signals was approx. 20.5 megacycles. (For further information see Proceedings of the Institute of Radio Engineers, Oct. 1933).