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Atres Artes, v. 1, issue 3, 1946
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Fantasy article ARTES ARTES Harold W. Cheney, Jr. pics but the price was prohibitive. Well, the next day, after checking out and attending mass, we got on a down town express to the Hudson Tubes. Their we got on the train to Newark and we were soon pulling into Penn station. We got on a Springfield bus and at Morris Ave. we disembarked. Starting to walk down the street to the Sokal hall where the organizational meeting of the ESPA was being held we saw a chap standing on the corner, seeing we were unusual looking he guessed us as a fan. It was Gerry de la Ree, looking entirely different than we had pictured him as. He said that the hall where the meeting was to be held wasn't open yet. As we waited around, several other fans came along and soon a miniature convention was being held at the corner of Morris and Springfield Ave. Soon we wandered down the street to the hall where a few other fans met us. A writer from Ziff-Davis (promptly labeled as one of Palmer's spies) dropped over, saying that RAP had given him a copy of the announcements that were distributed concerning the meeting. Finally Sam arrived and opened up the meeting. [Laid-in photograph of five men. Caption: Pic taken at the Newark organizational meeting of the A-Men. Left to Right are: Geo. Fox, Gerry de la Ree, Jokendy, L. Alpaugh, & Edgarzerp.] For the next three hours their raged a battle between the A-Men and parliamentary procedure. We're afraid that parliamentary procedure came out with the worst mauling. We can't help but look back in amusement at the hours of waste time as name, dues, officers, and the limitation of membership were given the once over -- many times. Afterwards we talked with the attendees. Kennedy told us about his correspondence with Shaver, who claims that we are all opposed to him because we are controlled by the derp. That night, we sadly boarded our train that took us away from the glamourous city of New York back to our mundane existence at Little Falls. IMPRESSIONS: We're not so sure of this talk of New York being a wonderful place to visit but an awful place to live. now; We had pictured DAW as a rather elderish man, quite rotund and jolly. You can see how surprised we were; Unger was the only fan we met whom looked anything like we thought he would; Searles youthful look almost astonished us -- when he answered the door, I was going to ask him if his father was in; as we said before de la Ree surprised us; Kennedy had given us a general sort of description so we weren't too surprised; we had formed no picture of Alpaugh or Fox beforehand. All in all the fan we most enjoyed meeting was Searles, maybe because he looked more like an average specimen of Homo Sapiens than the rest. In all probability, if we pass in the army we will do some traveling, so we hope to have the opportunity to meet many other fans. You older fans can't possibly know how wonderful it feels to meet a person who when you discuss fantasy and fandom with him returns your interest instead of making those circular motions with their index fingers on their right temple. Until we met these fans in New York we had never realized how pent up we were for conversation with some one genuinely interested in stfantasy fandom. 30 -- Page 7 --
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Fantasy article ARTES ARTES Harold W. Cheney, Jr. pics but the price was prohibitive. Well, the next day, after checking out and attending mass, we got on a down town express to the Hudson Tubes. Their we got on the train to Newark and we were soon pulling into Penn station. We got on a Springfield bus and at Morris Ave. we disembarked. Starting to walk down the street to the Sokal hall where the organizational meeting of the ESPA was being held we saw a chap standing on the corner, seeing we were unusual looking he guessed us as a fan. It was Gerry de la Ree, looking entirely different than we had pictured him as. He said that the hall where the meeting was to be held wasn't open yet. As we waited around, several other fans came along and soon a miniature convention was being held at the corner of Morris and Springfield Ave. Soon we wandered down the street to the hall where a few other fans met us. A writer from Ziff-Davis (promptly labeled as one of Palmer's spies) dropped over, saying that RAP had given him a copy of the announcements that were distributed concerning the meeting. Finally Sam arrived and opened up the meeting. [Laid-in photograph of five men. Caption: Pic taken at the Newark organizational meeting of the A-Men. Left to Right are: Geo. Fox, Gerry de la Ree, Jokendy, L. Alpaugh, & Edgarzerp.] For the next three hours their raged a battle between the A-Men and parliamentary procedure. We're afraid that parliamentary procedure came out with the worst mauling. We can't help but look back in amusement at the hours of waste time as name, dues, officers, and the limitation of membership were given the once over -- many times. Afterwards we talked with the attendees. Kennedy told us about his correspondence with Shaver, who claims that we are all opposed to him because we are controlled by the derp. That night, we sadly boarded our train that took us away from the glamourous city of New York back to our mundane existence at Little Falls. IMPRESSIONS: We're not so sure of this talk of New York being a wonderful place to visit but an awful place to live. now; We had pictured DAW as a rather elderish man, quite rotund and jolly. You can see how surprised we were; Unger was the only fan we met whom looked anything like we thought he would; Searles youthful look almost astonished us -- when he answered the door, I was going to ask him if his father was in; as we said before de la Ree surprised us; Kennedy had given us a general sort of description so we weren't too surprised; we had formed no picture of Alpaugh or Fox beforehand. All in all the fan we most enjoyed meeting was Searles, maybe because he looked more like an average specimen of Homo Sapiens than the rest. In all probability, if we pass in the army we will do some traveling, so we hope to have the opportunity to meet many other fans. You older fans can't possibly know how wonderful it feels to meet a person who when you discuss fantasy and fandom with him returns your interest instead of making those circular motions with their index fingers on their right temple. Until we met these fans in New York we had never realized how pent up we were for conversation with some one genuinely interested in stfantasy fandom. 30 -- Page 7 --
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