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Fanfare, v. 2, issue 2, whole no.8, February 1942
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DOTS Doings Of The Strangers ON JUNE 1ST, the few of the faithful who showed up at Doc Swisher's house, were rewarded by meeting author Robert Arthur, an old friend of the Swishers'. He is as interesting a talker as he is a writer. As usual, general confabulating was the order of the day...and evening...and morning . . . THE NEXT MEETING was postponed until July 27th when the wan-dering heroes Bell and Widner should return from the Denvention. They did, and the club was regaled with the tale of their exploits and the happenings in the mile-high city. A couple of newcomers, Joseph MacNamara and Harry Stubbs were present, and expressed intentions of attending regularly. AUGUST 24TH again found a small crew on hand, and another new member, George Foster. The main topic of discussion was a circular letter from E. E. Evans, Chairman of the NFFF Planning Board. Evans' material was discussed and voted upon, and his main point rejected. Then proposals for NFFF projects were suggested and re-corded by Widner to send to Evans. By far the best was Foster's idea of a welcoming committee to bring new fans into the field. MR E EVERETT EVANS again provided the central issue at the next meeting on September 21st, with a correlation of the data he had received from us and other fans. There were thirteen points in the suggested program, and with Boll and Swisher on a heckling campaign to get Widner's goat, a stormy session was held with most of the points being passed only after much shouting and repartee. The meeting was distinguished by the presence of Louis Russell Chauvenet, charter member, and President of the NFFF, who went to sleep under the piano until it was time to eat. Still another newcomer was added to the roster, and it begins to look as if The Stranger Club is going to go places this winter. Raymond Hartinuk of Peabody was the tyro, and appeared to be quite interested in the goings on. OCTOBER 19TH found another large gathering at the Swisher domicile, with another newcomer to the club, altho he is an old timer in fandom. This was author Thomas Gardner, who derived quite a kick from the chance to chew the fat with a group of fans since has been in Ohio, and out of circulation for the past two years more or less. Art Widner had three recordings sent by Henry Ackermann of Baltimore, and these were played, proving to be recuts of some Angeleno records made last Christmas. All were completely unintelligible except the last side by Ackerman and Wetzel. Copies of POLL CAT, Art Widner's psychoquiz experiment were passed around for the members to answer.
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DOTS Doings Of The Strangers ON JUNE 1ST, the few of the faithful who showed up at Doc Swisher's house, were rewarded by meeting author Robert Arthur, an old friend of the Swishers'. He is as interesting a talker as he is a writer. As usual, general confabulating was the order of the day...and evening...and morning . . . THE NEXT MEETING was postponed until July 27th when the wan-dering heroes Bell and Widner should return from the Denvention. They did, and the club was regaled with the tale of their exploits and the happenings in the mile-high city. A couple of newcomers, Joseph MacNamara and Harry Stubbs were present, and expressed intentions of attending regularly. AUGUST 24TH again found a small crew on hand, and another new member, George Foster. The main topic of discussion was a circular letter from E. E. Evans, Chairman of the NFFF Planning Board. Evans' material was discussed and voted upon, and his main point rejected. Then proposals for NFFF projects were suggested and re-corded by Widner to send to Evans. By far the best was Foster's idea of a welcoming committee to bring new fans into the field. MR E EVERETT EVANS again provided the central issue at the next meeting on September 21st, with a correlation of the data he had received from us and other fans. There were thirteen points in the suggested program, and with Boll and Swisher on a heckling campaign to get Widner's goat, a stormy session was held with most of the points being passed only after much shouting and repartee. The meeting was distinguished by the presence of Louis Russell Chauvenet, charter member, and President of the NFFF, who went to sleep under the piano until it was time to eat. Still another newcomer was added to the roster, and it begins to look as if The Stranger Club is going to go places this winter. Raymond Hartinuk of Peabody was the tyro, and appeared to be quite interested in the goings on. OCTOBER 19TH found another large gathering at the Swisher domicile, with another newcomer to the club, altho he is an old timer in fandom. This was author Thomas Gardner, who derived quite a kick from the chance to chew the fat with a group of fans since has been in Ohio, and out of circulation for the past two years more or less. Art Widner had three recordings sent by Henry Ackermann of Baltimore, and these were played, proving to be recuts of some Angeleno records made last Christmas. All were completely unintelligible except the last side by Ackerman and Wetzel. Copies of POLL CAT, Art Widner's psychoquiz experiment were passed around for the members to answer.
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