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Fandango, v. 3, issue 1, whole no. 9, Fall 1945

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Fan-Dango Vol. III, No. 1 Fall -- 1945 Whole No. 9 'TAIN'T WORTH IT, JACKSON. Speer offers some sort of a bet that the future issues of Fan-Dango will not be confined to jazz as was stated in the last issue. Inasmuch as Beak Taylor and Virginia Emden are willing to publish my musical remarks in their respective magazines, and Donn Brazier (who I promised months ago might have a jazz column for Frontier) is rumored en route home, I'd better back down. There is a limit to how much I can write on the subject, at least without sounding like a rehash of some of the volumes on jazz. So cut me in on those bets you won! A jazz Fan-Dango on top of those other commitments would be far too much work, even for the laudable purpose of making theProde of Puget out a liar. "Tain't worth it. ---ooOoo--- AH! SWEET CONSISTENCY! The last Fan-Danga said "farewell and t'hell with ye". In the eight months having elapsed since it was published most of the hue and cry about me has died down (I hope), and inn any case, the chief reasons for my shutting my big mouth have cased to exist. The FuSLA is practically a thing of the past, LASFS harmony no longer depends on my getting along with Kepner and Brown, the FSNY is busily having the renaissence which was predicted by someone (glad the LASFS didn't have a renaissence like that one!), and by refusing to read most of the last two mailings I've gotten over my mad for the next fifteen or twenty minutes. Besides, I have what looks to me like a very good idea for Fan-Dango. The next issue will either be the first in that seires, the first in the jazz series, the first in some other series, or the first in yet another series, or maybe it will be just the same lovable old Fan-Dango. (I simply will not give Mr. Speer an opportunity to make bets until he has fixed me up with a sizeable slice of the boodle.) but, with a certain amount of assurance, I can prophecy that the next FAN-DANGO will be Vol. III, No. 2, maybe. ---ooOoo--- CURSE ASHLEY.... The members of this high-minded organization will no doubt refuse to elect Sultan Alhazred the Mad Arab to any more offices when they learn that he practically ordered me to publish a Fan-Dango for this mailing. they will also probably say, ---ooOoo--- DARN YOU, CRANE, when they learn that I would probably have had to publish another Fan-Dango anyway for Burton Crane in far off china, who keeps urging me to send him a copy of the new Fan-Dango. A certain embarrassing shortage of a few months back must have at last penetrated the Far East. ---ooOoo--- RAISE THE ANTE TO 75! In the past, I have consistently advocated that the membership list be left as it is, restricted to 65. Despite the mass I have accuulated in teh past few months (hiya, Jackson!), I am reversing myself. Just another Kepner, I guess. The last FA shows the following waiting list: Marlow, Thomas, Sykora, Sehnert, Baker, Blish, Ladd, Moskowitz, Smoth, Smith, Raurasi. That is eleven. I knokw of three others; who have been added since that was published: Burton Crane, Helen Wesson, and Chas. Tanner. There is a -- 1 --
 
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