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Burton Jay Smith and Willametta Turnepseed letters, 1942-1944?
1943-05-31 Page 1
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May 31, 1945 Dear Willametta: This won't be a very good answer to your two letters, since I'm up to my ears in mimeo ink. Of the 32 pages of my next issue, I have run off ten, and should be right on time with it (June 15). In addition, I finally made the riffle in FAPA, and had to take time out to prepare Vol. I No. 1 of FAN-DANGO for them. I'd send you a copy of this last, but it is hekto, and the jelly went b-r-r-rack as it sometimes does; with the result that I barely got my 55 copies pulled. Glad you liked ACKY. Yeah, I'd like to print it, but lady, just think what that would cost! Duane and I figured out last night that our average wordage is over 31,000 per issue---which is probably one reason we turned up our noses at that NAPA mailing with all the leaflets! Tim Thrift tells me that the first-rate mags generally do not go out in the general mailings, so perhaps I'm premature in my judgement. In any case, we decided to let ACOLYTE JR. slide for a time, until we have gotten more contacts, and seen a few of the ones Thrift was talking about. If you become official editor, I hope to gawd you make NATIONAL AMATEUR a MAGAZINE, and not a bunch of dry reports! Why not mimeo the reports---nobody gives a whoop for them anyway---and use the mag entirely for literary contributions? Reports are all right in their place, and should be printed if there is no of dearth of printed organs; but NAPA needs some good mags a damn sight worse than it needs a bunch of legalistic buahwah. I have spoken! I don't think you want to feud with me, Willy me gal. In the first place, I probably would alienate any good opinion you might have of me (well!), since I am a dirty fighter, and will probably wax insulting before it's all over with. In the second place, I'm not going to attack your mag because I happen to like it, and thus would not naturally give you an opening. And in the third place, I don't doubt that I'll draw fire which is really meant! But of course if you fire a counter attack, it will get a sizzling answer---probably more so than any other member, since I'd probably figure that after this warning you deserved a blast! If you want to scrap, why not get in on my side? You throw
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May 31, 1945 Dear Willametta: This won't be a very good answer to your two letters, since I'm up to my ears in mimeo ink. Of the 32 pages of my next issue, I have run off ten, and should be right on time with it (June 15). In addition, I finally made the riffle in FAPA, and had to take time out to prepare Vol. I No. 1 of FAN-DANGO for them. I'd send you a copy of this last, but it is hekto, and the jelly went b-r-r-rack as it sometimes does; with the result that I barely got my 55 copies pulled. Glad you liked ACKY. Yeah, I'd like to print it, but lady, just think what that would cost! Duane and I figured out last night that our average wordage is over 31,000 per issue---which is probably one reason we turned up our noses at that NAPA mailing with all the leaflets! Tim Thrift tells me that the first-rate mags generally do not go out in the general mailings, so perhaps I'm premature in my judgement. In any case, we decided to let ACOLYTE JR. slide for a time, until we have gotten more contacts, and seen a few of the ones Thrift was talking about. If you become official editor, I hope to gawd you make NATIONAL AMATEUR a MAGAZINE, and not a bunch of dry reports! Why not mimeo the reports---nobody gives a whoop for them anyway---and use the mag entirely for literary contributions? Reports are all right in their place, and should be printed if there is no of dearth of printed organs; but NAPA needs some good mags a damn sight worse than it needs a bunch of legalistic buahwah. I have spoken! I don't think you want to feud with me, Willy me gal. In the first place, I probably would alienate any good opinion you might have of me (well!), since I am a dirty fighter, and will probably wax insulting before it's all over with. In the second place, I'm not going to attack your mag because I happen to like it, and thus would not naturally give you an opening. And in the third place, I don't doubt that I'll draw fire which is really meant! But of course if you fire a counter attack, it will get a sizzling answer---probably more so than any other member, since I'd probably figure that after this warning you deserved a blast! If you want to scrap, why not get in on my side? You throw
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