DIY History | Transcribe | Hevelin Fanzines | Ember, issue 32, February 10, 1947

Transcribe
Translate

Ember, issue 32, February 10, 1947

Page 2

Newsstand Report: TRUE, Feb.1947, has article 'In Peril of the Sea', by Albert Richard Wetjen, which relates most of the usual sea mysteries --Marie Celeste, Cyclops, etc.-- but winds up with a tale which might have been taken straight out of Lovecraft. Deserted derelict, all things in order, but with strange green splotches on the deck, the body of a cat mashed flat, and a parrot which repeated the screams of many men about a THING which came after them.-Joquel.(CNS) 'Will Atomic Rays Cause Human Freaks?' by Amram Scheinfeld in LIBERTY for Feb.15,1947. The A-bomb dropped on Hiroshima,etc. can play tricks with heredity for a 1000 years to come. In same issue, an article 'Faster,Faster' about the Army's new 1500 mile/hour rocketship; and also a review of fantasy film 'It's A Wonderful Life'. Mort Weisinger, once editor of Wonder Stories and Startling, has a non-stf article in the issue. Joquel adds to this: Scheinfeld is the author of 'You and Heredity' which book mentions Wells' 'Star-Begotten' in connection with the mutation problems. Ember adds that Scheinfeld was - and may be still- a Milwaukee newspaper reporter who became interested in heredity, studied up on it, and then wrote his book; he is not a scientist, rather a science-interpreter, and a capable one. Joquel says to watch Barnaby in the funnies; an atomic episode has been running since Xmas. Thompson notes that Jules Verne's 'Earth to the Moon' is appearing serially in the Lincoln (Nebr.) Daily Star marked 'AP Newsfeature', so it may be appearing in other papers also. Joquel comes again with 'The Astrologer' for Jan. 1947 which has an article 'Science and Metaphysics' by Manly Palmer Hall, which is a 4-page report on Charles Fort and his work. Re Dr. R.W.Wood and the moon being made of green cheese, did you catch the Richter cartoon in Colliers for Dec 7,1946? asks Joquel. A nonplussed group of Sen. Snorts and Col. Blimps stands around a radio operator who is saying: 'Ground to moon expidition: What kind of cheese?'    All the fannewsies received by Ember, plus Robinson and Derleth, have called attention to the current Feb 5 Satevepost which is carrying two stories of interest: Robert A. Heinlein's 'The Green Hills of Earth', an s-fer, and Vida Jameson's 'The Thirteenth Trunk', a fantasy. Both are short stories, and make up 50% of the short story space. Does this portend a brighter future for 'our' literature in the mundane slicks? Avon has put out H.F.Heard's fantasy-mystery 'A Taste for Honey' @ 25¢ -Stein, E.T.Bell reviews 'Psychology and Invention in the Mathematical Field',by Jacques Hadamard, Princeton U.. Press, $2, in Scientific Monthly, June 1945. (Fanews):A review of 'Slan' in Writer's Markets and Methods for Feb.47 is written by LA fan, Gordon Dewy. (Fanews): J.W.Campbell says Street & Smith could sell a lot more of Science Fiction than they can get paper for, and Unknown definitely will be revieved as soon as paper becomes available. ((The items credited to Fanews above should have been credited to Stefnews.))

Book Chatter: (Stefnews FNS) A deluxe edition of Wells' "The Time Machine" will be issued in Feb by Random House @ $2.75. James Newman, co-author of Mathematics and the Imagination, stated in June 45 issue fo Scientific Monthly that his book had sold 250,000 copies. (CNS): Recently out is 'Dark Music and Other Spectral Tales' by Jack Snow with a beautiful 4-color jacket by Ronald Clyne. Derleth says that we ought not to miss a hilarious fantasy by Mervyn Wall, The Unfortunate Fursey (Crown $2.75); "it is one of the first books in some time that I was not able to put down, once I had begun it." In regard to D.B.Thompson's question in the last Ember about Derleth's opinion of the Sloane books, Derleth says: "I have been fond of them; when first they appeared, I reviewed them favorably." Stein notes an old book (1902) On Two Planets by Kurd Lasswitz. A jealous lover secretly mixes the gas tanks for a Miss Ozodes, a smell artist, whose symphony thus leads to her public disgrace, expulsion, and death.

page 2

[note: transcription does not express use of color text and underlining, or spaces in lieu of paragraph breaks. condensed spacing is mostly preserved.]

Saving...

Newsstand Report: TRUE, Feb.1947, has article 'In Peril of the Sea', by Albert Richard Wetjen, which relates most of the usual sea mysteries --Marie Celeste, Cyclops, etc.-- but winds up with a tale which might have been taken straight out of Lovecraft. Deserted derelict, all things in order, but with strange green splotches on the deck, the body of a cat mashed flat, and a parrot which repeated the screams of many men about a THING which came after them.-Joquel.(CNS) 'Will Atomic Rays Cause Human Freaks?' by Amram Scheinfeld in LIBERTY for Feb.15,1947. The A-bomb dropped on Hiroshima,etc. can play tricks with heredity for a 1000 years to come. In same issue, an article 'Faster,Faster' about the Army's new 1500 mile/hour rocketship; and also a review of fantasy film 'It's A Wonderful Life'. Mort Weisinger, once editor of Wonder Stories and Startling, has a non-stf article in the issue. Joquel adds to this: Scheinfeld is the author of 'You and Heredity' which book mentions Wells' 'Star-Begotten' in connection with the mutation problems. Ember adds that Scheinfeld was - and may be still- a Milwaukee newspaper reporter who became interested in heredity, studied up on it, and then wrote his book; he is not a scientist, rather a science-interpreter, and a capable one. Joquel says to watch Barnaby in the funnies; an atomic episode has been running since Xmas. Thompson notes that Jules Verne's 'Earth to the Moon' is appearing serially in the Lincoln (Nebr.) Daily Star marked 'AP Newsfeature', so it may be appearing in other papers also. Joquel comes again with 'The Astrologer' for Jan. 1947 which has an article 'Science and Metaphysics' by Manly Palmer Hall, which is a 4-page report on Charles Fort and his work. Re Dr. R.W.Wood and the moon being made of green cheese, did you catch the Richter cartoon in Colliers for Dec 7,1946? asks Joquel. A nonplussed group of Sen. Snorts and Col. Blimps stands around a radio operator who is saying: 'Ground to moon expidition: What kind of cheese?' All the fannewsies received by Ember, plus Robinson and Derleth, have called attention to the current Feb 5 Satevepost which is carrying two stories of interest: Robert A. Heinlein's 'The Green Hills of Earth', an s-fer, and Vida Jameson's 'The Thirteenth Trunk', a fantasy. Both are short stories, and make up 50% of the short story space. Does this portend a brighter future for 'our' literature in the mundane slicks? Avon has put out H.F.Heard's fantasy-mystery 'A Taste for Honey' @ 25¢ -Stein, E.T.Bell reviews 'Psychology and Invention in the Mathematical Field',by Jacques Hadamard, Princeton U.. Press, $2, in Scientific Monthly, June 1945. (Fanews):A review of 'Slan' in Writer's Markets and Methods for Feb.47 is written by LA fan, Gordon Dewy. (Fanews): J.W.Campbell says Street & Smith could sell a lot more of Science Fiction than they can get paper for, and Unknown definitely will be revieved as soon as paper becomes available. ((The items credited to Fanews above should have been credited to Stefnews.)) Book Chatter: (Stefnews FNS) A deluxe edition of Wells' "The Time Machine" will be issued in Feb by Random House @ $2.75. James Newman, co-author of Mathematics and the Imagination, stated in June 45 issue fo Scientific Monthly that his book had sold 250,000 copies. (CNS): Recently out is 'Dark Music and Other Spectral Tales' by Jack Snow with a beautiful 4-color jacket by Ronald Clyne. Derleth says that we ought not to miss a hilarious fantasy by Mervyn Wall, The Unfortunate Fursey (Crown $2.75); "it is one of the first books in some time that I was not able to put down, once I had begun it." In regard to D.B.Thompson's question in the last Ember about Derleth's opinion of the Sloane books, Derleth says: "I have been fond of them; when first they appeared, I reviewed them favorably." Stein notes an old book (1902) On Two Planets by Kurd Lasswitz. A jealous lover secretly mixes the gas tanks for a Miss Ozodes, a smell artist, whose symphony thus leads to her public disgrace, expulsion, and death. page 2 [note: transcription does not express use of color text and underlining, or spaces in lieu of paragraph breaks. condensed spacing is mostly preserved.]