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New Fandom, v. 1, issue 6, 1939
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NEW FANDOM'S SPECIAL BULLETIN 33 (Issued by Sam Moskowitz, Managing Secretary of New Fandom, 603 So.11th Street, Newark, New Jersey—to keep members informed,) First of all, this is by no means a regular subsidiary publication of New Fandom. A bulletin of this sort will be issued only when some emergency or set of conditions arise which cannot wait until regular publication date. E̲X̲P̲L̲A̲N̲A̲T̲I̲O̲N̲ ̲O̲F̲ ̲L̲A̲T̲E̲N̲E̲S̲S̲ ̲O̲F̲ ̲"̲N̲E̲W̲ ̲F̲A̲N̲D̲O̲M̲"̲ ̲.̲ "New Fandom, the magazine, is almost four months late now. The last number was mailed about July 15th, 1939, and was the fifth issue. Overdue is the special convention issue, an issue devoted to accounts and side-lights of THE WORLD SCIENCE FICTION CONVENTION, New Fandom's greatest achievement to date. When a convention is over, it does not necessarily mean that the work on that convention is over. In fact, a good 1/3 of the entire job begins after the convention and not before or during it. Money had to be collected for advertisements in our convention program. Special convention booklets had to be.mailed. Various angles of the convention had to be cleared up. The bulk of this work should not have taken four months however, and it did not. Though there are still left-overs from the convention to be cleared up. the mass of work on it was completed within two months after convention date. That accounts for two months. Just when everything was reasonably clear and attention could be paid to the turning of the official organ, Sam Moskowitz, Managing Secretary, who has been doing most of the editorial work on the magazine began to have some difficulty with his eyes that resulted in a number of special treatments lasting a period of a month. That accounts for three months of our lateness. As soon as possible, Moskowitz turned the completed dummies over to the production committee, but work was again delayed because of the approaching Second Annual Philadelphia conference. For almost a month before that Conference time had to be spent going over about a half a dozen examples of possible constitutions for New Fandom received, and picking the choice parts of each to blend into a constitution that would be a masterpiece. This we succeeded in doing in time for the Philadelphia Conference, and as events proved our constitution was every bit as good as we hoped it would be—even better. That accounts for four months. Since that time work has been progressing rapidly upon the special convention issue of "New Fandom". We a̲r̲e̲ working on it, and it will be completed and in the mails a reasonably short time after you receive this. The number is certainly worth the delay. It contains among its various features, the l̲o̲n̲g̲e̲s̲t̲ account of e̲v̲e̲r̲y̲ phase of the convention to appear in a̲n̲y̲ fan magazine -- and c̲o̲m̲p̲l̲e̲t̲e̲! The.gala first day; the second day; the banquet; the auction; the ball game; the WONDER STORIES dinner; side-lights of the Convention, as presented by leading fans; the speeches of Sam Moskowitz, Will Sykora, Willy Ley, Frank R. Paul, and many others; a reprint of the account of the convention printed in TIME magazine; a review of "New Fandom's" and "Fantasy News" requirements as written up in AUTHOR AND JOURNALIST; an itemized account of intake and expenses; and gosh knows how many other features. At lest you will know e̲v̲e̲r̲y̲t̲h̲i̲n̲g̲ about the convention worth knowing, The issue will probably have to unusually large to accommodate all the features, and even then some of them may have to be carried over to the next issue.
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NEW FANDOM'S SPECIAL BULLETIN 33 (Issued by Sam Moskowitz, Managing Secretary of New Fandom, 603 So.11th Street, Newark, New Jersey—to keep members informed,) First of all, this is by no means a regular subsidiary publication of New Fandom. A bulletin of this sort will be issued only when some emergency or set of conditions arise which cannot wait until regular publication date. E̲X̲P̲L̲A̲N̲A̲T̲I̲O̲N̲ ̲O̲F̲ ̲L̲A̲T̲E̲N̲E̲S̲S̲ ̲O̲F̲ ̲"̲N̲E̲W̲ ̲F̲A̲N̲D̲O̲M̲"̲ ̲.̲ "New Fandom, the magazine, is almost four months late now. The last number was mailed about July 15th, 1939, and was the fifth issue. Overdue is the special convention issue, an issue devoted to accounts and side-lights of THE WORLD SCIENCE FICTION CONVENTION, New Fandom's greatest achievement to date. When a convention is over, it does not necessarily mean that the work on that convention is over. In fact, a good 1/3 of the entire job begins after the convention and not before or during it. Money had to be collected for advertisements in our convention program. Special convention booklets had to be.mailed. Various angles of the convention had to be cleared up. The bulk of this work should not have taken four months however, and it did not. Though there are still left-overs from the convention to be cleared up. the mass of work on it was completed within two months after convention date. That accounts for two months. Just when everything was reasonably clear and attention could be paid to the turning of the official organ, Sam Moskowitz, Managing Secretary, who has been doing most of the editorial work on the magazine began to have some difficulty with his eyes that resulted in a number of special treatments lasting a period of a month. That accounts for three months of our lateness. As soon as possible, Moskowitz turned the completed dummies over to the production committee, but work was again delayed because of the approaching Second Annual Philadelphia conference. For almost a month before that Conference time had to be spent going over about a half a dozen examples of possible constitutions for New Fandom received, and picking the choice parts of each to blend into a constitution that would be a masterpiece. This we succeeded in doing in time for the Philadelphia Conference, and as events proved our constitution was every bit as good as we hoped it would be—even better. That accounts for four months. Since that time work has been progressing rapidly upon the special convention issue of "New Fandom". We a̲r̲e̲ working on it, and it will be completed and in the mails a reasonably short time after you receive this. The number is certainly worth the delay. It contains among its various features, the l̲o̲n̲g̲e̲s̲t̲ account of e̲v̲e̲r̲y̲ phase of the convention to appear in a̲n̲y̲ fan magazine -- and c̲o̲m̲p̲l̲e̲t̲e̲! The.gala first day; the second day; the banquet; the auction; the ball game; the WONDER STORIES dinner; side-lights of the Convention, as presented by leading fans; the speeches of Sam Moskowitz, Will Sykora, Willy Ley, Frank R. Paul, and many others; a reprint of the account of the convention printed in TIME magazine; a review of "New Fandom's" and "Fantasy News" requirements as written up in AUTHOR AND JOURNALIST; an itemized account of intake and expenses; and gosh knows how many other features. At lest you will know e̲v̲e̲r̲y̲t̲h̲i̲n̲g̲ about the convention worth knowing, The issue will probably have to unusually large to accommodate all the features, and even then some of them may have to be carried over to the next issue.
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