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Voice of the Imagination, whole no. 19, November 1941
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VOICE OF THE IMAGI-NATION 11 indeed, certainly still is, 'though now with a new squareness to his chin, & fine, fresh suntan on his features, several inches on his chest and a Royal Artillery forage cap stuck jauntily over one eye. But still the same old Ted underneath-- enthusiastic, witty, sophisticated, friendly! " My first close contact with him came a week or two after that BIS meet, and we met again a couple of times in the interim and come to know one another better. " This time I was in the Chair at the SFA London Branch meeting, and I did duty and honour to Ted with, I reckon, a swell, and well deserved, introductory 'blurb', finishing, how well I recollect: "Gentlemen, it gives me the greatest of pleasure to bring this meeting...a world-famous stf. fan...Britain's greatest newshound of fandom..... TED CARNELL!!!" " Ted rose lithely to his feet, waited for the loud and long applause to subside, and then....nothing....just NOTHING. Ted had lost himself--! " He afterwards frankly admitted to me that those were some of the longest moments he had ever spent in his life, standing there trying to gather his lost words. Then, quite suddenly, he got away and gave us one of the grandest yarns of the day's agenda. " I have, of course, heard Ted speak very many times since, at Convention, SFA and BIS meetings, but never has his now famous 'pause' been repeated. He is, in fact, one of the most accomplished yarnspinners I know, and, at the 1939 British Science Fiction Convention, Dr. Low went out of his way to congratulate Ted upon a really wonderful Convention speech he had made that evening.
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VOICE OF THE IMAGI-NATION 11 indeed, certainly still is, 'though now with a new squareness to his chin, & fine, fresh suntan on his features, several inches on his chest and a Royal Artillery forage cap stuck jauntily over one eye. But still the same old Ted underneath-- enthusiastic, witty, sophisticated, friendly! " My first close contact with him came a week or two after that BIS meet, and we met again a couple of times in the interim and come to know one another better. " This time I was in the Chair at the SFA London Branch meeting, and I did duty and honour to Ted with, I reckon, a swell, and well deserved, introductory 'blurb', finishing, how well I recollect: "Gentlemen, it gives me the greatest of pleasure to bring this meeting...a world-famous stf. fan...Britain's greatest newshound of fandom..... TED CARNELL!!!" " Ted rose lithely to his feet, waited for the loud and long applause to subside, and then....nothing....just NOTHING. Ted had lost himself--! " He afterwards frankly admitted to me that those were some of the longest moments he had ever spent in his life, standing there trying to gather his lost words. Then, quite suddenly, he got away and gave us one of the grandest yarns of the day's agenda. " I have, of course, heard Ted speak very many times since, at Convention, SFA and BIS meetings, but never has his now famous 'pause' been repeated. He is, in fact, one of the most accomplished yarnspinners I know, and, at the 1939 British Science Fiction Convention, Dr. Low went out of his way to congratulate Ted upon a really wonderful Convention speech he had made that evening.
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