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Ad Astra, v. 1, issue 5, January 1940

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fore, due to this hideous & insurmountable drawback, why should anyone ever bother to learn Esperanto?"
It myt b xplaind here that 'Tubby' always uses one of Morojo's green & brown ribbons, wich makes his minutes very colorful. Hence the 'italix' in the xcerpts, representing Bruce's brown emfases.
Oldtimers seen at the meeting of 21 Sep, according to Yerke, were [[underline]]E. Cunningham[[end underline]], [[underline]]Ron Reynolds[[end underline]], [[underline]]Guy Amory[[end underline]] & [[underline]]Doug Rogers[[end underline]]--"all friends of Bradbury. (Very sub-tle) "Visitor from foreign shores was [[underline]]Namrecka Yaj Tserrof[[end underline]]." O, I remember that meeting; that was the one where everyone took to signing the register in some odd fashion, either hiser name backward or in Esperanto or Piglatin, upsidedown or? Yerke records an "argument about high & mighty cause of science taking place between Morojo & McMurtry(Pasadena Tecnocrat) attracted most of the club members over to that part of the room, & it was here that the meeting took place a short while later, the same of which consisted of reading the minutes & a letter from London" (Ted Carnell).
28 Sep: "[[underine]]Ackerman[[end underline]] had with him a Polish version of [[underline]]Flash Gordon[[end underline]]" (an original Krupa scientificartoon strip) "which was read aloud to all by [[underline]]Bradbury[[end underline]]. It was flippantly remarked that it sounded something like the secretary reading the minutes." Later: "Numerous topics of trivial interest occurred, & finally one of the most trivial of all things happened: [[underline]]Herman Doepke[[end underline]] walked in. He promptly sat down & fell asleep." When someone remarkt "I wonder whatever hapnd to Daugherty", in walkt Walt! Whereat we all began to wonder" whatever became of....& named a dozen different absentees of long standing, hoping they woud walk in. this meeting will alsways b rememberd as Daugherty's, & Walt will have cause long to recall it too. During a lull in the conversations he started out by saying he knew someone who knew all of us. Silly small thing to say! But it developt into the greatest case of detection in the annals of the LA imaginatives; nothing like it since the Great Hansen Case (when we had Louise Taylor Hansen---authoress of "The Man From Space, Prince of Liars, What the Sodium Lines Revealed"---etc in our midst a whole evening & couldn't get her to tell us who she was.) Daugherty kept shifting the sex of this mysterious person who knew all of us but didnt wish niser identity disclosed. Walt was within 100' of himer 12 hrs every day. Heesh[?] had a foto of 43. Other clues. certn of us finaly became convinced as the 4th degree wore on that it coud b none other'n the celestial Celeste De Pinto (Sedepi), onetime clubmem & contrib'tor to [[underline]]Madge[[end underline]] & that she must b living in the same apt. as Walt. Ryt after the meeting Russ, Morojo, Pogo, Ray & 4e rusht out to Daugherty's adres, beating Walt home & arriving just in time to catch Celeste coming down the st. with a b.f.! Boy, was she embarast! & the next day Daugherty moved--!
Oct 5: [[underline]]Louise Taylor Hansen[[end underline]] returns! Miss Hansen--it was her bro's pic eich apeard representing her in the old WS---absorbd the attn. of one & all with ehr personly prepared charts on ancient continents, with historys, speculations etc. Dr Acula, also, was back; where he had been he would not divulge, but he was looking very plump & his complexion quite ruddy;& persons have been vanishing unaccountably every day in LA... "The Quivero Jello Hour" put on a 10 min. play, featuring Yerke & FJA in half a dozen different parts. (This play was sposed to b a radio broadcast.) Script by the estimable TBY, the "general gist of the horror was that the 2 main characters get into a rock-

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Page 12 AD ASTRA fore, due to this hideous & insurmountable drawback, why should anyone ever bother to learn Esperanto?" It myt b xplaind here that 'Tubby' always uses one of Morojo's green & brown ribbons, wich makes his minutes very colorful. Hence the 'italix' in the xcerpts, representing Bruce's brown emfases. Oldtimers seen at the meeting of 21 Sep, according to Yerke, were [[underline]]E. Cunningham[[end underline]], [[underline]]Ron Reynolds[[end underline]], [[underline]]Guy Amory[[end underline]] & [[underline]]Doug Rogers[[end underline]]--"all friends of Bradbury. (Very sub-tle) "Visitor from foreign shores was [[underline]]Namrecka Yaj Tserrof[[end underline]]." O, I remember that meeting; that was the one where everyone took to signing the register in some odd fashion, either hiser name backward or in Esperanto or Piglatin, upsidedown or? Yerke records an "argument about high & mighty cause of science taking place between Morojo & McMurtry(Pasadena Tecnocrat) attracted most of the club members over to that part of the room, & it was here that the meeting took place a short while later, the same of which consisted of reading the minutes & a letter from London" (Ted Carnell). 28 Sep: "[[underine]]Ackerman[[end underline]] had with him a Polish version of [[underline]]Flash Gordon[[end underline]]" (an original Krupa scientificartoon strip) "which was read aloud to all by [[underline]]Bradbury[[end underline]]. It was flippantly remarked that it sounded something like the secretary reading the minutes." Later: "Numerous topics of trivial interest occurred, & finally one of the most trivial of all things happened: [[underline]]Herman Doepke[[end underline]] walked in. He promptly sat down & fell asleep." When someone remarkt "I wonder whatever hapnd to Daugherty", in walkt Walt! Whereat we all began to wonder" whatever became of....& named a dozen different absentees of long standing, hoping they woud walk in. this meeting will alsways b rememberd as Daugherty's, & Walt will have cause long to recall it too. During a lull in the conversations he started out by saying he knew someone who knew all of us. Silly small thing to say! But it developt into the greatest case of detection in the annals of the LA imaginatives; nothing like it since the Great Hansen Case (when we had Louise Taylor Hansen---authoress of "The Man From Space, Prince of Liars, What the Sodium Lines Revealed"---etc in our midst a whole evening & couldn't get her to tell us who she was.) Daugherty kept shifting the sex of this mysterious person who knew all of us but didnt wish niser identity disclosed. Walt was within 100' of himer 12 hrs every day. Heesh[?] had a foto of 43. Other clues. certn of us finaly became convinced as the 4th degree wore on that it coud b none other'n the celestial Celeste De Pinto (Sedepi), onetime clubmem & contrib'tor to [[underline]]Madge[[end underline]] & that she must b living in the same apt. as Walt. Ryt after the meeting Russ, Morojo, Pogo, Ray & 4e rusht out to Daugherty's adres, beating Walt home & arriving just in time to catch Celeste coming down the st. with a b.f.! Boy, was she embarast! & the next day Daugherty moved--! Oct 5: [[underline]]Louise Taylor Hansen[[end underline]] returns! Miss Hansen--it was her bro's pic eich apeard representing her in the old WS---absorbd the attn. of one & all with ehr personly prepared charts on ancient continents, with historys, speculations etc. Dr Acula, also, was back; where he had been he would not divulge, but he was looking very plump & his complexion quite ruddy;& persons have been vanishing unaccountably every day in LA... "The Quivero Jello Hour" put on a 10 min. play, featuring Yerke & FJA in half a dozen different parts. (This play was sposed to b a radio broadcast.) Script by the estimable TBY, the "general gist of the horror was that the 2 main characters get into a rock-