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MFS Bulletin, v. 3, issue 4, whole no. 15, January 18, 1943
MFS Bulletin, Vol. 3, Number 4 Page 3
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HELL - FIRE JOHN REITROF Sitting there listening to a silly little ditty, and puffing desteriously upon a [[underline]]Corina Lark[[end underline]], you hazard guesses at your changes with Army life - and altogether too quickly it comes like a flash! You've forgotten to pass on Staff Sarge Kenealy's bulletin of some while back. But then you remember that it is altogether naughty to reveal military information, censored or not, too suddenly, and you know too, that one shouldn't mention that Nick is a Mac serving with The Mac in Australia - excepting that in this instance all fandom knows about this one of its illustrious boys. Swinging from "Sidewalks oof New York" to "Never No Lament", you quote the fact that Nick sez this.... "By now the Army should either have you or decide to pass you up altogether. Which was it?" By this time, you'll know, KEN. "I am still kicking out a bit of literature from time to time, but little of it gets across the water. I have one yarn somewhere between here and Campbell, and another that is lacking two pages of being an manuscript copy." Continuing to ride with what Mood a'la Ellingtonia, you skip over to other sections, after nothing that agents save time from such vast distances. "I think I will get a new agent, though. I have been sending my stuff to Lenniger. He may be[[?]] all right for general pulps, but he does not savvy stf and fantasy outside of the Palmer mags. I sent him a pure fantasy awhile back. He sends it back, saying it is too off-trail for the science fiction mags and not written well enough for the slicks. Not a word does he say about UNK, where I slanted it, or Weird as a possible alternate. I sent it to Campbell on my own. Too early yet, though, to get an answer one way or the other." MAKING WITH THE LICE - and ALLAN P ROBERTS - NOT TO MENTION AGENTS "Are any of the fans still in the agency racket? I need an agent who will push my own particular brand of stuff, rather than one who tries to make a Ziff-Davis writer out of me.... Or has Doc given up the agency business since he went to work for Silberkleit? Trouble with his agency was that he spent his whole time helping along the other Futurians on their two-bit pubs and alternating the good pay markets. Just like Moskowitz and his one mag agency. he was just a free-for-nothing first reader for Tremaine. "The Futurians, by the way, seem to have as much of an in with Norton as they did with Pohl. True, Norton puts out a much better mag than Pohl - one of the best a present - but, the wistful nothings of Kubelious, Pearson, and company, sure do lower that standard, louse up things in general." Yeh, Nick, but that "in" with Pohl was because of the fact that Freddie was a Futurian to begin. And it seems that Norton is plenty "loused up" with tripe that Pohl bought up before getting the boot.... Now that most has been culled away, Norton has a dead weight in the form of Pohl back to act as assistant editor. Freddie may be a good yegg personally, but he's just a
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HELL - FIRE JOHN REITROF Sitting there listening to a silly little ditty, and puffing desteriously upon a [[underline]]Corina Lark[[end underline]], you hazard guesses at your changes with Army life - and altogether too quickly it comes like a flash! You've forgotten to pass on Staff Sarge Kenealy's bulletin of some while back. But then you remember that it is altogether naughty to reveal military information, censored or not, too suddenly, and you know too, that one shouldn't mention that Nick is a Mac serving with The Mac in Australia - excepting that in this instance all fandom knows about this one of its illustrious boys. Swinging from "Sidewalks oof New York" to "Never No Lament", you quote the fact that Nick sez this.... "By now the Army should either have you or decide to pass you up altogether. Which was it?" By this time, you'll know, KEN. "I am still kicking out a bit of literature from time to time, but little of it gets across the water. I have one yarn somewhere between here and Campbell, and another that is lacking two pages of being an manuscript copy." Continuing to ride with what Mood a'la Ellingtonia, you skip over to other sections, after nothing that agents save time from such vast distances. "I think I will get a new agent, though. I have been sending my stuff to Lenniger. He may be[[?]] all right for general pulps, but he does not savvy stf and fantasy outside of the Palmer mags. I sent him a pure fantasy awhile back. He sends it back, saying it is too off-trail for the science fiction mags and not written well enough for the slicks. Not a word does he say about UNK, where I slanted it, or Weird as a possible alternate. I sent it to Campbell on my own. Too early yet, though, to get an answer one way or the other." MAKING WITH THE LICE - and ALLAN P ROBERTS - NOT TO MENTION AGENTS "Are any of the fans still in the agency racket? I need an agent who will push my own particular brand of stuff, rather than one who tries to make a Ziff-Davis writer out of me.... Or has Doc given up the agency business since he went to work for Silberkleit? Trouble with his agency was that he spent his whole time helping along the other Futurians on their two-bit pubs and alternating the good pay markets. Just like Moskowitz and his one mag agency. he was just a free-for-nothing first reader for Tremaine. "The Futurians, by the way, seem to have as much of an in with Norton as they did with Pohl. True, Norton puts out a much better mag than Pohl - one of the best a present - but, the wistful nothings of Kubelious, Pearson, and company, sure do lower that standard, louse up things in general." Yeh, Nick, but that "in" with Pohl was because of the fact that Freddie was a Futurian to begin. And it seems that Norton is plenty "loused up" with tripe that Pohl bought up before getting the boot.... Now that most has been culled away, Norton has a dead weight in the form of Pohl back to act as assistant editor. Freddie may be a good yegg personally, but he's just a
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