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Fanfare, v. 2, issue 1, whole no. 7, August 1941
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xxx fanfare Get in the Swim! THRILL over the unique VOICE of the IMAGI-NATION 10¢ from Bx 6475 Met Sta, Los Ang The Last Minute This column could also be called EDITORIALIBIS and any bedevilled fan-editor, looking for a name for this type of stuff, can have the idea free gratis, because there'll be very few apologies or alibis after this issue. Mainly, we hope, because there'll be very few things for which to a&a. If anything goes wrong after this, we'll take the rap without a murmur. The main bleat for this issue, is that we engaged a now helper — sister of our old helper. Hecter Graff, name of Mimi O. Graff. Somehow it seems that we were never properly Introduced to Mimi, and consequent shyness in our associations resulted in all kinds of bungles. For one thing, we, in our sweet innocence, bought cheap. 16-pound paper--eight reams of it. Mimi, being hesitant about appearing bossy, never told me that the printing would show thru and look lousy, so that's the cause of our trouble. Also, in our blundering, masculine way we insisted on turning the crank backwards when wishing to paint more ink on the Inside of the drum. This is definitely against Mimi's principles, and she went into a tantrum, getting her roller all dirty, which produces no end of lovely smdudge effects, in which we are deftinitely not interested right now. The inferior quality of the lettering is due to the fact that pig-headedly did everything with one large stylus that came from with Mimi's services, instead of going out and buying a fine one. But to get on to more necessary stuff...only ten of the faithful sent in ratings this time. This distresses our statistical soul no end. We think perhaps it's because of 0-100 system which doesn't seem very popular. We've been thinking it over, and have decided to modify it so that it'll be easier to do, and also give more accurate results. Please try this new way. Here's the dope: 50 - Perfect! 49-40 Excellent. 39-30 Good. 29-20 Ho-hum! 19-10 Bad. 9-5 Worse. 4-0 Phew! Thanks this time to Bridges, Jones, Boling, Rajocz, Lowndes, Rocklynne, DBThompson, Croutch, Chauvenet, and Warner. Let's double that list in the next issue---hah? And here's how the stuff came out: STRANGE INTERLUDES 88.0; I AUDIT THE CHICON 84.0; SLAN! - DER 77.0; FAN Q&A 75.4; STRANGERS IN BOSTON 75.3; REPLY TO MISKE 74.8; POLL NEWS 71.8; GEMS FROM THE FAN PRESS 71.1; SOME ASTOUNDING THINGS ABOUT STYLE 71.0; LAST MINUTE 70.7; ILLUSTRATION 70.0; STARDUST 54.4. 64.4. Chauvenet received a unanimous vote for best letter and we presented him with the book ARK OF THE COVENANT on our way home from the Denvention. Which brings up another alibi. There are articles on the Denvention in this issue, because this was all dummied up and ready to go
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xxx fanfare Get in the Swim! THRILL over the unique VOICE of the IMAGI-NATION 10¢ from Bx 6475 Met Sta, Los Ang The Last Minute This column could also be called EDITORIALIBIS and any bedevilled fan-editor, looking for a name for this type of stuff, can have the idea free gratis, because there'll be very few apologies or alibis after this issue. Mainly, we hope, because there'll be very few things for which to a&a. If anything goes wrong after this, we'll take the rap without a murmur. The main bleat for this issue, is that we engaged a now helper — sister of our old helper. Hecter Graff, name of Mimi O. Graff. Somehow it seems that we were never properly Introduced to Mimi, and consequent shyness in our associations resulted in all kinds of bungles. For one thing, we, in our sweet innocence, bought cheap. 16-pound paper--eight reams of it. Mimi, being hesitant about appearing bossy, never told me that the printing would show thru and look lousy, so that's the cause of our trouble. Also, in our blundering, masculine way we insisted on turning the crank backwards when wishing to paint more ink on the Inside of the drum. This is definitely against Mimi's principles, and she went into a tantrum, getting her roller all dirty, which produces no end of lovely smdudge effects, in which we are deftinitely not interested right now. The inferior quality of the lettering is due to the fact that pig-headedly did everything with one large stylus that came from with Mimi's services, instead of going out and buying a fine one. But to get on to more necessary stuff...only ten of the faithful sent in ratings this time. This distresses our statistical soul no end. We think perhaps it's because of 0-100 system which doesn't seem very popular. We've been thinking it over, and have decided to modify it so that it'll be easier to do, and also give more accurate results. Please try this new way. Here's the dope: 50 - Perfect! 49-40 Excellent. 39-30 Good. 29-20 Ho-hum! 19-10 Bad. 9-5 Worse. 4-0 Phew! Thanks this time to Bridges, Jones, Boling, Rajocz, Lowndes, Rocklynne, DBThompson, Croutch, Chauvenet, and Warner. Let's double that list in the next issue---hah? And here's how the stuff came out: STRANGE INTERLUDES 88.0; I AUDIT THE CHICON 84.0; SLAN! - DER 77.0; FAN Q&A 75.4; STRANGERS IN BOSTON 75.3; REPLY TO MISKE 74.8; POLL NEWS 71.8; GEMS FROM THE FAN PRESS 71.1; SOME ASTOUNDING THINGS ABOUT STYLE 71.0; LAST MINUTE 70.7; ILLUSTRATION 70.0; STARDUST 54.4. 64.4. Chauvenet received a unanimous vote for best letter and we presented him with the book ARK OF THE COVENANT on our way home from the Denvention. Which brings up another alibi. There are articles on the Denvention in this issue, because this was all dummied up and ready to go
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