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Fandango, v. 3, issue 1, whole no. 9, Fall 1945
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total of fourteen waiting to get in. I have not seen enough work from Marlow, Sykora, Behnert, Baker, Mrs. Smith, or Taurasi to say whether or not they would be outstanding members. The past publishing record of several of these individuals is sufficiently good to indicate that they are potentially at least first-class members. Of the eight I do know quite a bit about, not one would be other than outstanding...and I do mean outstanding. Jim Thomas, an extremely friendly and stimulating GI, who has everything it takes to be a braintruster except the experience in publishing. The only correspondent I've ever had who wrote letters in a DBThompson vein that would stand comparison with DB's own. Jim Blish is one of the two non-FAPA Vanguard members who I really would like to see in our group (the other is Virginia Emden). Blish writes well, and has given Vanguard some particularly good material along musical lines; his Vanguard magazine is worthy in every respect of being included in FAPA mailings. Thyril Ladd is the Albany half of Langley Searles' Fantasy Commentator standbytes..'nuf said. Sam Moskowitz is not the most popular fan in fandom by any means, but he is a good and prolific writer who is active enough today to warrant being reinstated. Lou Smith is another terrific bibliophile and fantasy critic whose stuff has highlighted the fan press from time to time since 1932. I'll OK Tanner on Ashley's enthusiastic sayso---if Charlie is half the man Al says he is I want him in FAPA but fast. My own two recruits, protojes, or what have you, are Burton Crane and Helen Wesson. In the mundane APA's these are both names to conjure with. Burton has been a top-flight publisher in NAPA for a couple of decades or more. He is a sensitive editor and brilliant writer, who is probably at his best when he gets into that satirical, biting vein that marks his reviews. At the moment with the OSS in China, Burton left the official editorship of NAPA to go into service, the 60 and 70 page National Amateurs with his name on the masthead are among the best amateur magazines I have ever seen, and this despite the dead-weight of dull reports they were forced to carry. Helen Wesson is a former president of AAPA--a smart, good-looking gal who publishes one of the half-dizen ayjay titles that really has something to say and usually says it pretty well. Somehow or other both of these folks got interested in fandom. They are working actively on The....Thing, a 24 page mimographed quarterly fanzine, which they intend to put into the mailings as soon as they can get into FAPA. In the meantime, it will be a general fanzine. If they do one quarter as good a job on TUT as they have on the poorest of their ayjay publications, some of our top publishers are going to have to look to their laurels in the next poll. The question I would like to pose to you folks is this: can FAPA afford to keep talent like this cooling its heels on the waiting list until it either loses its enthusiasm or migrates into Vanguard? Are our present mailings of high enough quality as they stand that they would not be improved by the inclusion of the stuff our waiting listers could and would furnish us? In the past, we could afford to take a chance. We were alone in the field; we had an occasional loss through too long a waiting list stay, but most of them waited our pleasure. They had to, in order to get into fan-slanted ayjay at all. Now there is no need for them to wait. Our seoesh rivals, Vanguard, is still a dozen or so short of their membership limit. They've already gotten Joe Kennedy away from us. Do any of you suppose for a moment that the characters in charge of VAPA, who have no great reason to love us overly anyway, are going to let all these worthwhile names stay on our list indefinitely without making a determined effort to talk the best prospects into joining VAPA and forgetting about FAPA? If we won't take some kind of prompt action, we -- 2 --
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total of fourteen waiting to get in. I have not seen enough work from Marlow, Sykora, Behnert, Baker, Mrs. Smith, or Taurasi to say whether or not they would be outstanding members. The past publishing record of several of these individuals is sufficiently good to indicate that they are potentially at least first-class members. Of the eight I do know quite a bit about, not one would be other than outstanding...and I do mean outstanding. Jim Thomas, an extremely friendly and stimulating GI, who has everything it takes to be a braintruster except the experience in publishing. The only correspondent I've ever had who wrote letters in a DBThompson vein that would stand comparison with DB's own. Jim Blish is one of the two non-FAPA Vanguard members who I really would like to see in our group (the other is Virginia Emden). Blish writes well, and has given Vanguard some particularly good material along musical lines; his Vanguard magazine is worthy in every respect of being included in FAPA mailings. Thyril Ladd is the Albany half of Langley Searles' Fantasy Commentator standbytes..'nuf said. Sam Moskowitz is not the most popular fan in fandom by any means, but he is a good and prolific writer who is active enough today to warrant being reinstated. Lou Smith is another terrific bibliophile and fantasy critic whose stuff has highlighted the fan press from time to time since 1932. I'll OK Tanner on Ashley's enthusiastic sayso---if Charlie is half the man Al says he is I want him in FAPA but fast. My own two recruits, protojes, or what have you, are Burton Crane and Helen Wesson. In the mundane APA's these are both names to conjure with. Burton has been a top-flight publisher in NAPA for a couple of decades or more. He is a sensitive editor and brilliant writer, who is probably at his best when he gets into that satirical, biting vein that marks his reviews. At the moment with the OSS in China, Burton left the official editorship of NAPA to go into service, the 60 and 70 page National Amateurs with his name on the masthead are among the best amateur magazines I have ever seen, and this despite the dead-weight of dull reports they were forced to carry. Helen Wesson is a former president of AAPA--a smart, good-looking gal who publishes one of the half-dizen ayjay titles that really has something to say and usually says it pretty well. Somehow or other both of these folks got interested in fandom. They are working actively on The....Thing, a 24 page mimographed quarterly fanzine, which they intend to put into the mailings as soon as they can get into FAPA. In the meantime, it will be a general fanzine. If they do one quarter as good a job on TUT as they have on the poorest of their ayjay publications, some of our top publishers are going to have to look to their laurels in the next poll. The question I would like to pose to you folks is this: can FAPA afford to keep talent like this cooling its heels on the waiting list until it either loses its enthusiasm or migrates into Vanguard? Are our present mailings of high enough quality as they stand that they would not be improved by the inclusion of the stuff our waiting listers could and would furnish us? In the past, we could afford to take a chance. We were alone in the field; we had an occasional loss through too long a waiting list stay, but most of them waited our pleasure. They had to, in order to get into fan-slanted ayjay at all. Now there is no need for them to wait. Our seoesh rivals, Vanguard, is still a dozen or so short of their membership limit. They've already gotten Joe Kennedy away from us. Do any of you suppose for a moment that the characters in charge of VAPA, who have no great reason to love us overly anyway, are going to let all these worthwhile names stay on our list indefinitely without making a determined effort to talk the best prospects into joining VAPA and forgetting about FAPA? If we won't take some kind of prompt action, we -- 2 --
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