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Mercury, v. 1, issue 5, 1940
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Angelenotes -- concluded Forry going to get this Morey?" was the cry of Director Daugherty in the rôle of auctioneer at a recent LASFS meeting as he sought to raise the ante on an as-yet-unpublisht original ilLeostration. Pic finally was kockt down to Hodgkins, the J showing his preference (in a BIG way) for Perri's first pro-pic, i.e., the ilLestration for Vincentale "Master Control! in Apr 'Toni' (Astonishing to U). $1.75 cash was payd for this 2-pg spread, reminiscent of Paul, which apPerrintly 4e was determined to have at any cost. Drawings were a donation secured by Board of Directors Member Ackerman from Science Fictioneers HQs. "'Forry-Made Fans' Ephemeral?"---such was the jocular jibe of Paul Freehafer at Mr A re his "proto-J" Miss Beverly Browne, who came down town (from the Motion Picture Academy) to 2 or 3 meetings in the company of the one J & left in the car of the other (Russell J.). When La Bev did not show up at a recent meeting, Forry read in explanation a portion of correspondence which he termd something on the order of "a semi-official resignation from the chapter by an ex-non-member. " It seems the Browney is "strikly the studious type" in these scientifiction affairs & prefers to absorb our absorbing stf alone at home. Forry was responsible for touching her off with "Odd Jne", "The Moon Pool", "Black Flame", "Conquest of Space", Science Fiction, Astonishing, WT, Tom & Esp; has no relinquisht her to the hands of Mr H to complete her fantastic downfall with storys of his wreckamendation, Technocracy & sofistry á la SaL. Farewell to Freehafer: Paularis' Publisher, returning to Idaho for the summer, was praisd (& rightly so, sez me) as one of the outstanding club-workers, & gifted on the Society's behalf with a going away present of a copy of the brandnew Welles bk, Invasion from Mars. A private party for Paul was held afterward, Bruce Yerke, Mark Blanck, Eleanor O'Brien & myself participating with 4e as host. In connexion with the aforementiond bk based on the "War of the Worlds" broadcast, it myt be mentiond a spectacular pyrotechnical display entitled "Battle of the Planets" was presented in LA lately at the OlympiColiseum with Orson in pOrson to "shoot the works".... %%% %%% %%% %%% %%% POLL RESULTS--Art L. Widner %%% %%% %%% %%% %%% Authors: (76 votes received to date) 6 21 40 1 Weinbaum 389 2 Campbell-Stuart 379 3 Smith, E.E. 320 4 Merritt 258 5 Lovecraft 229 6 De Camp 225 7 Wells, H.G. 198 8 Williamson 173 9 Keller 166 10 Taine 125 11 Burroughs 116 12 Moore 93 13 Coblentz 91 14 Stuart 84 15 Binder 82 16 Stapledon 78 17 Smith, C.A. 58 Hubbard 58 18 Leinster 45 Howard 45 19 Gallun 43 Van Vogt 43 20 Verne 41 21 Heinlein 35 22 Smith, T. 31 Quinn 31 23 Kummer (?) 27 24 Simak 26 Bond 26 Schachner 26 25 Ayre 25 Kuttner 25 I only need 24 more votes to complete this poll, so I wish all the fans who haven't voted yet would get busy and send in their postcards. There are a great many so-called " top " fans, who have not voted yet. I don't know whether they consider it beneath them or what. Once I get established as a poll-taker in fandom, the results I can get on specific questions would
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Angelenotes -- concluded Forry going to get this Morey?" was the cry of Director Daugherty in the rôle of auctioneer at a recent LASFS meeting as he sought to raise the ante on an as-yet-unpublisht original ilLeostration. Pic finally was kockt down to Hodgkins, the J showing his preference (in a BIG way) for Perri's first pro-pic, i.e., the ilLestration for Vincentale "Master Control! in Apr 'Toni' (Astonishing to U). $1.75 cash was payd for this 2-pg spread, reminiscent of Paul, which apPerrintly 4e was determined to have at any cost. Drawings were a donation secured by Board of Directors Member Ackerman from Science Fictioneers HQs. "'Forry-Made Fans' Ephemeral?"---such was the jocular jibe of Paul Freehafer at Mr A re his "proto-J" Miss Beverly Browne, who came down town (from the Motion Picture Academy) to 2 or 3 meetings in the company of the one J & left in the car of the other (Russell J.). When La Bev did not show up at a recent meeting, Forry read in explanation a portion of correspondence which he termd something on the order of "a semi-official resignation from the chapter by an ex-non-member. " It seems the Browney is "strikly the studious type" in these scientifiction affairs & prefers to absorb our absorbing stf alone at home. Forry was responsible for touching her off with "Odd Jne", "The Moon Pool", "Black Flame", "Conquest of Space", Science Fiction, Astonishing, WT, Tom & Esp; has no relinquisht her to the hands of Mr H to complete her fantastic downfall with storys of his wreckamendation, Technocracy & sofistry á la SaL. Farewell to Freehafer: Paularis' Publisher, returning to Idaho for the summer, was praisd (& rightly so, sez me) as one of the outstanding club-workers, & gifted on the Society's behalf with a going away present of a copy of the brandnew Welles bk, Invasion from Mars. A private party for Paul was held afterward, Bruce Yerke, Mark Blanck, Eleanor O'Brien & myself participating with 4e as host. In connexion with the aforementiond bk based on the "War of the Worlds" broadcast, it myt be mentiond a spectacular pyrotechnical display entitled "Battle of the Planets" was presented in LA lately at the OlympiColiseum with Orson in pOrson to "shoot the works".... %%% %%% %%% %%% %%% POLL RESULTS--Art L. Widner %%% %%% %%% %%% %%% Authors: (76 votes received to date) 6 21 40 1 Weinbaum 389 2 Campbell-Stuart 379 3 Smith, E.E. 320 4 Merritt 258 5 Lovecraft 229 6 De Camp 225 7 Wells, H.G. 198 8 Williamson 173 9 Keller 166 10 Taine 125 11 Burroughs 116 12 Moore 93 13 Coblentz 91 14 Stuart 84 15 Binder 82 16 Stapledon 78 17 Smith, C.A. 58 Hubbard 58 18 Leinster 45 Howard 45 19 Gallun 43 Van Vogt 43 20 Verne 41 21 Heinlein 35 22 Smith, T. 31 Quinn 31 23 Kummer (?) 27 24 Simak 26 Bond 26 Schachner 26 25 Ayre 25 Kuttner 25 I only need 24 more votes to complete this poll, so I wish all the fans who haven't voted yet would get busy and send in their postcards. There are a great many so-called " top " fans, who have not voted yet. I don't know whether they consider it beneath them or what. Once I get established as a poll-taker in fandom, the results I can get on specific questions would
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