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Southern Star, v. 1, issue 3, August 1941
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From the Passenger Lounge SOUTHERN STAR Page 35 CONCERNED WITH ANYTHING ON EARTH. LET US KNOW HOW YOU LIKE THE TRILOGY IDEA EXPLAINED IN THE EDITORIAL, WON'T YOU? Enclosed is two bits for three SOUTHERN STARS. If possible, would like to start with #1. ((Sorry; every single copy of number one has been gone for months. If, however, demand is heavy enuf it may be reprinted. What about it, readers? JG)). Have looked through damon's ((damon "snide" knight. One of our favorite people. JG)) copy of #2, and from such a short scanning like the looks of it very much, especially the article on the Munseys. Have not read very much in it, but what I have is good. Your format is very good, especially the story heads. Covers o.k. Only fault is a slight messiness in the mimeoing, but you will probably have that licked by the next issue. It's a job to put out a neat mag without a lot of practice, but you're a long way toward it. -- BILL EVANS FROM THE MUMBLER -- Southern Star? Is the second issue out? ((Yes. JG)). Oh, hell yes, here it is. I thought it was a Sunday School weekly, or a tourist guide to Paris, with that fancy lettering at the top and the winged thig-a-ma-jig in the picture. When did Jenkins visit Paris? For that matter, when did he visit Perri? Not a bad caricature of her on the rear cover altho his interpretation of Pohl is awful. ((Check. As a cartoon, it was not intended to bear any real resemblance to the original. Our thanks, tho, to both Pohl and Perri for the very good humored way they took the joke. JG)). She is a looker, tho. ((Again check. Emphatically! JG)). Chauvenet brings to mind my pet hate -- Burrough's habit of abruptly and heartlessly leaving Tarzan surrounded by the Mumbi-Gumbi's, ten thousand spears prickling his chest -- to go galloping away to London where Dame Whatnot is serving tea and crumpets, and the gas man is hollering for his money! Damn but I hate Burroughs because he does that! The style may have attracted and held other readers, but I report with unsullied conscience that many are the Burroughs I have hurled across the floor in utmost disgust because -- in the next chapter -- he started writing another story instead of (a) finishing off Tarzan; (b) finishing off the nasty natives with poisoned spears. I will not read Burroughs to this day because I know the book will do the same thing! I must have my books simple and straightforward; I cannot understand or follow any other kind. Frequently I buy books that, at the end of each chapter, have a little printed notice: "Continue reading on the next page." This helps me immensely. But perhaps you would like on the Warner system, eh? Front Cover: 9. (okay as I said.) Rear ditto: 3. (stinky, as I said.) Editorial: 6. (you aren't effervescent). Yngvi/lous: 7. (Perdue having fun -- his kind.) Panorama: 10. (It could hardly be otherwise). ERB by LRC: 8. (it reminded me of my hate). Starport: 7. (fresh stuff mixed with stale stuff). Article/MR: 8. (three guesses as to what Milty is talking about.) B. Magic: 10. (I like this, and I like Tillman). Poetry: ? (my poetry has to be barroom style). Morley news: 6. (propaganda by Lowndes). Spacewar: 8. (why not spitballs at thirty parsecs?). Passengers: 9. (very good information on Fischer). Lounge: 7. (fans talk too much) -- BOB TUCKER THE INTERLUDES WILL NOT PLAY QUITE SO IMPORTANT A PART IN THE PANORAMA
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From the Passenger Lounge SOUTHERN STAR Page 35 CONCERNED WITH ANYTHING ON EARTH. LET US KNOW HOW YOU LIKE THE TRILOGY IDEA EXPLAINED IN THE EDITORIAL, WON'T YOU? Enclosed is two bits for three SOUTHERN STARS. If possible, would like to start with #1. ((Sorry; every single copy of number one has been gone for months. If, however, demand is heavy enuf it may be reprinted. What about it, readers? JG)). Have looked through damon's ((damon "snide" knight. One of our favorite people. JG)) copy of #2, and from such a short scanning like the looks of it very much, especially the article on the Munseys. Have not read very much in it, but what I have is good. Your format is very good, especially the story heads. Covers o.k. Only fault is a slight messiness in the mimeoing, but you will probably have that licked by the next issue. It's a job to put out a neat mag without a lot of practice, but you're a long way toward it. -- BILL EVANS FROM THE MUMBLER -- Southern Star? Is the second issue out? ((Yes. JG)). Oh, hell yes, here it is. I thought it was a Sunday School weekly, or a tourist guide to Paris, with that fancy lettering at the top and the winged thig-a-ma-jig in the picture. When did Jenkins visit Paris? For that matter, when did he visit Perri? Not a bad caricature of her on the rear cover altho his interpretation of Pohl is awful. ((Check. As a cartoon, it was not intended to bear any real resemblance to the original. Our thanks, tho, to both Pohl and Perri for the very good humored way they took the joke. JG)). She is a looker, tho. ((Again check. Emphatically! JG)). Chauvenet brings to mind my pet hate -- Burrough's habit of abruptly and heartlessly leaving Tarzan surrounded by the Mumbi-Gumbi's, ten thousand spears prickling his chest -- to go galloping away to London where Dame Whatnot is serving tea and crumpets, and the gas man is hollering for his money! Damn but I hate Burroughs because he does that! The style may have attracted and held other readers, but I report with unsullied conscience that many are the Burroughs I have hurled across the floor in utmost disgust because -- in the next chapter -- he started writing another story instead of (a) finishing off Tarzan; (b) finishing off the nasty natives with poisoned spears. I will not read Burroughs to this day because I know the book will do the same thing! I must have my books simple and straightforward; I cannot understand or follow any other kind. Frequently I buy books that, at the end of each chapter, have a little printed notice: "Continue reading on the next page." This helps me immensely. But perhaps you would like on the Warner system, eh? Front Cover: 9. (okay as I said.) Rear ditto: 3. (stinky, as I said.) Editorial: 6. (you aren't effervescent). Yngvi/lous: 7. (Perdue having fun -- his kind.) Panorama: 10. (It could hardly be otherwise). ERB by LRC: 8. (it reminded me of my hate). Starport: 7. (fresh stuff mixed with stale stuff). Article/MR: 8. (three guesses as to what Milty is talking about.) B. Magic: 10. (I like this, and I like Tillman). Poetry: ? (my poetry has to be barroom style). Morley news: 6. (propaganda by Lowndes). Spacewar: 8. (why not spitballs at thirty parsecs?). Passengers: 9. (very good information on Fischer). Lounge: 7. (fans talk too much) -- BOB TUCKER THE INTERLUDES WILL NOT PLAY QUITE SO IMPORTANT A PART IN THE PANORAMA
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