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languages a great deal, and almost any sound you can make has its own symbol. With a little practice, it should be easier to read them than shorthand, for instance, which is on precisely the same principle, and the same machine could be used to write in any language. Of course, the idea never could be perfected to the state where you could dictate a letter and have it look as if someone had typed it perfectly, for you'd be minus capitals, punctuation and such. (An illustration of this machine & all the details about it are containd in the 3d AmS, where Dr. Hackensaw describes it among his "Minor Inventions".) -- And now, having figured it all out, who'll invent it? I'll ask only 33% of the profits, which should be ample to keep me prozines for the rest of my life. '' I don't get the point of the Daugherty dictation. Unless mebbe Sam Jaffe played in the movie made out of Lost Horizon; that I know not and care less. '' Don't like so many pictures. Counting the back cover, they take up two pages, and I'm sure another half-dozen letters would have given more enjoyment than the drawings. '' Milty had better watch out for his laurels. I, Warner, am feeling something the other day on my chest too. Unless it's frustrated tendrils that gave up the job of trying to break through my thick skull, maybe some day I too will be talking about manly things and posing for Tarzan pictures."

[Signed Graph Woldey] ("The 4-D Doodler") of 435 - 19 Ave, Frisco: "In Ish 12 of VOICE you ask on the title page: 'How about a foto, Graph?' At first I thought maybe I was getting well known or something and that you really wanted my foto. Then I saw you were only making a play on my name. (foto Graph - fotograf, get it, or shall I draw a diagram?) '' Anyhow, what the heck do you want with male fan's fotos when right down there in L.A. - so I've heard - is a young lady science fiction writer, Leigh Brackett. Somebody told me she looks like Amelia Earhart, the late aviatrix. You have slipped up bad by not coming out with her foto! How about it? Raise the price that issue and send me one collect. And it better not be another two year old foto either, tho that would be better than no picture. (Leigh's foto apeard July AmS) '' Now whether you like it or not I'm going to tell you how I got that name, Graph. It happens that I had the same front name as an uncle in my town, who is a physician. (the uncle, not the town). Now a few years ago I used to waste time writing letters to the newspapers. This would have been harmless enough, except that the letters got printed, and they were signed with the same name as my uncle's which is the M.D. And since my uncle the M.D. is a lot better know hereabout than I am, people thought he wrote all those scandalous letters to the poipers. '' The doc, was a good guy about it, but his business is carving people. A lot of customers were nervous about being carved by a doc with such ideas as appeared in the papers over his name. They thought an idea is something that detonates if approached. A doc with ideas was no fit guy to have playing around with their appendices. '' So to spare uncle anguish I changed the front name to Graph. I was sure that with that name I would no longer be confused with anyone in the United States. It's not really a name, but a nice, impersonal word. I've been using it for seven years and I'm thinking of having it confirmed by either baptism or tattooing.

LA's own [signed Arthur Louis Joquel] (aka "Astra Pubs") - 1426W38 St: "Hmmmmm. Welll-lll. Awwww-oh well, I may as well get it over with. For 6 months now I've been promising--or threatening--to write another letter to VoM. So--turn the radio on good and loud, on one of Southern California's ubiquitous 'high-brow' music programs, and away we go. '' Which reminds me, right now--so Harry Warner Jr thinks he's the only musician in fandom, hey? His last letter in VoM hinted as much. Well, Harry, you've got another think coming. One of these days I'll send you a fono record of my piano rhapsody, or some original waltzs. Furthermore, according to the law of averages, there must be more good musicians among fans, hiding their lights under bushels. If so, won't you please come out in the open, where HWJr & I can have a look at you? ''' Hear you got your draft questionnaire, 4c. If it were not for the threat of that 5-year jail sentence, or a fine of $10,000, or both, I might venture to say that it's too bad you're not a conscientious objector. For then, if your claim was upheld, you'd be placed in class IV-E! But of course, I won't say any such thing. '''' Some time ago, March 25 to be exact, I started an add-a-page letter on the rounds of some prominent fans. The roster, for those not included, was: Gilbert, Warner Jr, Unger, Widner Jr, Tucker, Donn Brazier, Roy Hunt, Fortier, Wright, Ackerman, and back to me. When the missive started out, it was a modest 2-page letter. But on returning, it had

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16 languages a great deal, and almost any sound you can make has its own symbol. With a little practice, it should be easier to read them than shorthand, for instance, which is on precisely the same principle, and the same machine could be used to write in any language. Of course, the idea never could be perfected to the state where you could dictate a letter and have it look as if someone had typed it perfectly, for you'd be minus capitals, punctuation and such. (An illustration of this machine & all the details about it are containd in the 3d AmS, where Dr. Hackensaw describes it among his "Minor Inventions".) -- And now, having figured it all out, who'll invent it? I'll ask only 33% of the profits, which should be ample to keep me prozines for the rest of my life. '' I don't get the point of the Daugherty dictation. Unless mebbe Sam Jaffe played in the movie made out of Lost Horizon; that I know not and care less. '' Don't like so many pictures. Counting the back cover, they take up two pages, and I'm sure another half-dozen letters would have given more enjoyment than the drawings. '' Milty had better watch out for his laurels. I, Warner, am feeling something the other day on my chest too. Unless it's frustrated tendrils that gave up the job of trying to break through my thick skull, maybe some day I too will be talking about manly things and posing for Tarzan pictures." [Signed Graph Woldey] ("The 4-D Doodler") of 435 - 19 Ave, Frisco: "In Ish 12 of VOICE you ask on the title page: 'How about a foto, Graph?' At first I thought maybe I was getting well known or something and that you really wanted my foto. Then I saw you were only making a play on my name. (foto Graph - fotograf, get it, or shall I draw a diagram?) '' Anyhow, what the heck do you want with male fan's fotos when right down there in L.A. - so I've heard - is a young lady science fiction writer, Leigh Brackett. Somebody told me she looks like Amelia Earhart, the late aviatrix. You have slipped up bad by not coming out with her foto! How about it? Raise the price that issue and send me one collect. And it better not be another two year old foto either, tho that would be better than no picture. (Leigh's foto apeard July AmS) '' Now whether you like it or not I'm going to tell you how I got that name, Graph. It happens that I had the same front name as an uncle in my town, who is a physician. (the uncle, not the town). Now a few years ago I used to waste time writing letters to the newspapers. This would have been harmless enough, except that the letters got printed, and they were signed with the same name as my uncle's which is the M.D. And since my uncle the M.D. is a lot better know hereabout than I am, people thought he wrote all those scandalous letters to the poipers. '' The doc, was a good guy about it, but his business is carving people. A lot of customers were nervous about being carved by a doc with such ideas as appeared in the papers over his name. They thought an idea is something that detonates if approached. A doc with ideas was no fit guy to have playing around with their appendices. '' So to spare uncle anguish I changed the front name to Graph. I was sure that with that name I would no longer be confused with anyone in the United States. It's not really a name, but a nice, impersonal word. I've been using it for seven years and I'm thinking of having it confirmed by either baptism or tattooing. LA's own [signed Arthur Louis Joquel] (aka "Astra Pubs") - 1426W38 St: "Hmmmmm. Welll-lll. Awwww-oh well, I may as well get it over with. For 6 months now I've been promising--or threatening--to write another letter to VoM. So--turn the radio on good and loud, on one of Southern California's ubiquitous 'high-brow' music programs, and away we go. '' Which reminds me, right now--so Harry Warner Jr thinks he's the only musician in fandom, hey? His last letter in VoM hinted as much. Well, Harry, you've got another think coming. One of these days I'll send you a fono record of my piano rhapsody, or some original waltzs. Furthermore, according to the law of averages, there must be more good musicians among fans, hiding their lights under bushels. If so, won't you please come out in the open, where HWJr & I can have a look at you? ''' Hear you got your draft questionnaire, 4c. If it were not for the threat of that 5-year jail sentence, or a fine of $10,000, or both, I might venture to say that it's too bad you're not a conscientious objector. For then, if your claim was upheld, you'd be placed in class IV-E! But of course, I won't say any such thing. '''' Some time ago, March 25 to be exact, I started an add-a-page letter on the rounds of some prominent fans. The roster, for those not included, was: Gilbert, Warner Jr, Unger, Widner Jr, Tucker, Donn Brazier, Roy Hunt, Fortier, Wright, Ackerman, and back to me. When the missive started out, it was a modest 2-page letter. But on returning, it had