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Science Fiction Weekly, v. 1, issue 11, April 28, 1940

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UNDER THE LENS

CLIFFORD JOHNSON (Yogi): "I'm just a careless son-of-a-gun trying to get somewhere. I am well into sixteen and am scandinavian blonde. I hope to be a research chemist someday, but it sure looks hopeless.
     "I read all of the stf mags and consider Astounding tops in this field. I don't care for Unknown, Fantastic Adventures, and so on because of the fairy-tale-ness of the mags. I like 'em with deep science such as "Grey Lensman" which I thought the best I have ever read. Smith is tops.
     "I believe the best artists are Krupa, Isip, Finley, and nearly all the rest. Of course, I think Paul is best -- next to Petty. I thought it was a dirty trick to discontinue Marvel Science Stories, but that is just one person's opinion. I got a kick out of the Bond tales, and certainly like the Burroughs stories. I read only a few of the fan magazines & there are the LSFS bunch, Spaceways, Scientifan, and any you or Tom Wright put out." (Yogi is referring in "you or Tom Wright", to Joe Fortier who collected the "Under the Lens" interviews. Editor.))
     JOHN REITROF: "Some of you fellows seem to doubt my existence, but here is proof. If you want to hear from me just write to 5109 Eastman Avenue in Oakland. I have a brother in crime who likes to illustrate. Darn it, no one doubted Paul X. Savage's existence, yet that was I! No one doubted Guy Francis' existence, yet that was my brother, Speh Frantz under another name. Speh is a sort of half-brother or something.
     "I think Unknown is tops and like every single Ziff-Davis publication, I like to write, and turn out a story in a couple of days. Read some fan mags, and have read some from Joe Fortier's place, but think they are mostly sort of corney. The Comet is good, and so is Le Zombie, Futuria Fantasia, and Sweetness & Light."  (Joe Fortier)
 
INVITATION
Tis the year of the '40 tacked on to '19 At the Chicon, your face will be welcomlysoon.
- - E. A. White

CITY DESK
ZIFF-DAVIS, publisher of two stf magazines, also puts out Popular Pets which has recently filed suit for an injunction restraining a Mr Lester P. Barlow from testing the power of his new "super - explosive" by bombing seventy goats. The magazine contended that such a test would be "ghastly, in-human, cruel, and sanguinary."
     Mr Barlow declared that no question of inhumanity was involved. "Animals have often been used for military tests" he added. "And this period of critical affairs is no time to weep about a lot of goats."
     He said that the goats would not be hit by flying fragments of metal; that a quantity of his explosive, covered only with canvas, would be detonated in the midst of the goats and that they would either be uninjured or would be killed instantly by the bomb's 'detenation waves.'

THE LONG - AWAITED CARDS for ye Futurion League have arrived and are being mailed out to all members, as fast as the General Secretariat can function. Among the most recently enrolled members is the editor of Famous Fantastic Mysteries, Miss Mary Gnaedinger, who wrote us as follows: - - - "Dear Futurians: Dynamic conceptions of the future are my meat. Will be pleased to see a dozer or so."

THE SOMEWHAT DAZED expression on editor Lowndes' face these days can be ascribed to the fact that, about a fortnight age, he typed out seven or so copies of his weird and fantastic sonnets, upon noting the poem by Farsaci in the current Famous Fantastic Mysteries, and took them over to 280 Broadway. The next time he saw the editor, Miss Gnaedinger informed him that she could use them all. The poems were: "To Edgar Allan Poe", "For W. Morritt (1) 'The People of the Pit', (2) 'The Woman of the Wood'", "Epilogue", "La Femme de Glace", "Exaltation", and "Vampyrs".
     Doc also has some of his best-taken short-tales under consideration there & at the office of Weird Tales.

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UNDER THE LENS CLIFFORD JOHNSON (Yogi): "I'm just a careless son-of-a-gun trying to get somewhere. I am well into sixteen and am scandinavian blonde. I hope to be a research chemist someday, but it sure looks hopeless. "I read all of the stf mags and consider Astounding tops in this field. I don't care for Unknown, Fantastic Adventures, and so on because of the fairy-tale-ness of the mags. I like 'em with deep science such as "Grey Lensman" which I thought the best I have ever read. Smith is tops. "I believe the best artists are Krupa, Isip, Finley, and nearly all the rest. Of course, I think Paul is best -- next to Petty. I thought it was a dirty trick to discontinue Marvel Science Stories, but that is just one person's opinion. I got a kick out of the Bond tales, and certainly like the Burroughs stories. I read only a few of the fan magazines & there are the LSFS bunch, Spaceways, Scientifan, and any you or Tom Wright put out." (Yogi is referring in "you or Tom Wright", to Joe Fortier who collected the "Under the Lens" interviews. Editor.)) JOHN REITROF: "Some of you fellows seem to doubt my existence, but here is proof. If you want to hear from me just write to 5109 Eastman Avenue in Oakland. I have a brother in crime who likes to illustrate. Darn it, no one doubted Paul X. Savage's existence, yet that was I! No one doubted Guy Francis' existence, yet that was my brother, Speh Frantz under another name. Speh is a sort of half-brother or something. "I think Unknown is tops and like every single Ziff-Davis publication, I like to write, and turn out a story in a couple of days. Read some fan mags, and have read some from Joe Fortier's place, but think they are mostly sort of corney. The Comet is good, and so is Le Zombie, Futuria Fantasia, and Sweetness & Light." (Joe Fortier) INVITATION Tis the year of the '40 tacked on to '19 At the Chicon, your face will be welcomlysoon. - - E. A. White CITY DESK ZIFF-DAVIS, publisher of two stf magazines, also puts out Popular Pets which has recently filed suit for an injunction restraining a Mr Lester P. Barlow from testing the power of his new "super - explosive" by bombing seventy goats. The magazine contended that such a test would be "ghastly, in-human, cruel, and sanguinary." Mr Barlow declared that no question of inhumanity was involved. "Animals have often been used for military tests" he added. "And this period of critical affairs is no time to weep about a lot of goats." He said that the goats would not be hit by flying fragments of metal; that a quantity of his explosive, covered only with canvas, would be detonated in the midst of the goats and that they would either be uninjured or would be killed instantly by the bomb's 'detenation waves.' THE LONG - AWAITED CARDS for ye Futurion League have arrived and are being mailed out to all members, as fast as the General Secretariat can function. Among the most recently enrolled members is the editor of Famous Fantastic Mysteries, Miss Mary Gnaedinger, who wrote us as follows: - - - "Dear Futurians: Dynamic conceptions of the future are my meat. Will be pleased to see a dozer or so." THE SOMEWHAT DAZED expression on editor Lowndes' face these days can be ascribed to the fact that, about a fortnight age, he typed out seven or so copies of his weird and fantastic sonnets, upon noting the poem by Farsaci in the current Famous Fantastic Mysteries, and took them over to 280 Broadway. The next time he saw the editor, Miss Gnaedinger informed him that she could use them all. The poems were: "To Edgar Allan Poe", "For W. Morritt (1) 'The People of the Pit', (2) 'The Woman of the Wood'", "Epilogue", "La Femme de Glace", "Exaltation", and "Vampyrs". Doc also has some of his best-taken short-tales under consideration there & at the office of Weird Tales.