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Orb, v. 2, issue 1, 1950
Page 19
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19 was a beauty, but the general fannish consensus was that there was too much bare flesh showing for the average fannish living-room. Jim Bradley finally got it at the unheard-of low price of $15. Jim rather dreaded his parents' reaction to it, though. The auction proceeded until quite late that night. In the general melee of low cost buying at the end of the auction, I got hooked into buying a Terry original for a story in I called "Storm in a Teapot." It would have been expensive at half what I paid for it.......50[[cent symbol]]. After it was over, Forrie Ackerman held a private auction of the work of Morrie Dollens, and I bought a moon-scape and our cover for a total of $14.50. Then, Charles and I rushed to the motel and to bed. Growing fans have to get their beauty sleep.....(and if this is what a beauty sleep gets you, I'm gonna stay awake nights.) The next morning, again against the protests of the sleepy Chas Heisner, we made for the fanzine session which was held at 10:00 AM. This, incidentally, was the morning of the third. Nelson, somewhat unprepared, gave a talk on the mimeod fanzine, originally scheduled for r-t rapp, who had joined the Army. The Bob Tucker told how to prepare a newszine. The most important point (he said) was in making sure of the accuracy of your information. He'll probably hate this report then, because some of it's a little hazy. However, the details given are correct, because copious notes were scribbled on my program, and all other material that was handed out during the con. In fact, one good incident was mentioned in this case. Several people had been mentioning rumors concerning the break-up of Dena[[?]] Campbell and her husband, JWC, Jr. Bob said he couldn't print it before,because if he did, and it wasn't true, he could be sued to within an inch of his life. However, on the day before, the Norwescon had received a wedding invitation. Seems as if Dena had married G.O. Smith. Bob then pointed out that he could still get into trouble if he printed something in bad taste in large red letters clear across the page. As it is, he has to content himself with a staid, reserved account of their marriage. But, since it was confirmed, and not libelous, he is printing only facts and felicitations, and nobody can object to that! You made a good point there, Bob, even if I had mauled it a bit in the re-telling. Then, Don Day addressed the small gathering on the lithoed fanzine. It was interesting, although it pointed out few things ye edde hadn't already learned. Whereupon, Walt Coslet got up to talk about the Amateur Press Associations. Walt's voice doesn't carry as well as some, and his talk was not as interesting to the majority as the others were. Interest was lost, and it wasn't completely gained throughout the rest of the meeting. Last of all, Finnigan of the EG&LMS-F,C&MS gave a talk on the clubzines. (He is on the staff of Rhodomagnetic Digest.) He gave a fairly interesting talk, and we all enjoyed it. The most interesting thing, however, was Rhodo itself. One of the neatest lithoed zines I've ever seen, and on a model 40 multilith. A model 40 is only slightly easier to operate than trying to print a copy by hand. Happily, I used model '50'. After this, a forum entitled " The Place of Fanzines " was to be held, but the group was growing relentless, so was adjourned instead. At 2 PM, the Authors and fans met,and Sturgeon, Tucker, Boucher, etc., told of the stories they had recently sold, what they would soon write, etc. Nothing was so fascinating that I couldn't have missed it
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19 was a beauty, but the general fannish consensus was that there was too much bare flesh showing for the average fannish living-room. Jim Bradley finally got it at the unheard-of low price of $15. Jim rather dreaded his parents' reaction to it, though. The auction proceeded until quite late that night. In the general melee of low cost buying at the end of the auction, I got hooked into buying a Terry original for a story in I called "Storm in a Teapot." It would have been expensive at half what I paid for it.......50[[cent symbol]]. After it was over, Forrie Ackerman held a private auction of the work of Morrie Dollens, and I bought a moon-scape and our cover for a total of $14.50. Then, Charles and I rushed to the motel and to bed. Growing fans have to get their beauty sleep.....(and if this is what a beauty sleep gets you, I'm gonna stay awake nights.) The next morning, again against the protests of the sleepy Chas Heisner, we made for the fanzine session which was held at 10:00 AM. This, incidentally, was the morning of the third. Nelson, somewhat unprepared, gave a talk on the mimeod fanzine, originally scheduled for r-t rapp, who had joined the Army. The Bob Tucker told how to prepare a newszine. The most important point (he said) was in making sure of the accuracy of your information. He'll probably hate this report then, because some of it's a little hazy. However, the details given are correct, because copious notes were scribbled on my program, and all other material that was handed out during the con. In fact, one good incident was mentioned in this case. Several people had been mentioning rumors concerning the break-up of Dena[[?]] Campbell and her husband, JWC, Jr. Bob said he couldn't print it before,because if he did, and it wasn't true, he could be sued to within an inch of his life. However, on the day before, the Norwescon had received a wedding invitation. Seems as if Dena had married G.O. Smith. Bob then pointed out that he could still get into trouble if he printed something in bad taste in large red letters clear across the page. As it is, he has to content himself with a staid, reserved account of their marriage. But, since it was confirmed, and not libelous, he is printing only facts and felicitations, and nobody can object to that! You made a good point there, Bob, even if I had mauled it a bit in the re-telling. Then, Don Day addressed the small gathering on the lithoed fanzine. It was interesting, although it pointed out few things ye edde hadn't already learned. Whereupon, Walt Coslet got up to talk about the Amateur Press Associations. Walt's voice doesn't carry as well as some, and his talk was not as interesting to the majority as the others were. Interest was lost, and it wasn't completely gained throughout the rest of the meeting. Last of all, Finnigan of the EG&LMS-F,C&MS gave a talk on the clubzines. (He is on the staff of Rhodomagnetic Digest.) He gave a fairly interesting talk, and we all enjoyed it. The most interesting thing, however, was Rhodo itself. One of the neatest lithoed zines I've ever seen, and on a model 40 multilith. A model 40 is only slightly easier to operate than trying to print a copy by hand. Happily, I used model '50'. After this, a forum entitled " The Place of Fanzines " was to be held, but the group was growing relentless, so was adjourned instead. At 2 PM, the Authors and fans met,and Sturgeon, Tucker, Boucher, etc., told of the stories they had recently sold, what they would soon write, etc. Nothing was so fascinating that I couldn't have missed it
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