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[inside a box] EN GARDE! A FAPA PUBLICATION WHOLE NUMBER IX. [A little b/w drawing of a snake encircling the letters: ASP] Quite Quickly Quonstructed by--- AL and ABBY LU ASHLEY Of 25 POPLAR, BATTLE CREEK, MICH. MARCH, 1944, MAILING. [end of box] THE LITTLE MAN WHO WASN'T THERE or the MICHICON DELUSION ACT A very effective method of gaining reader-attention is to open one's article or story with one or more statements of a startling nature. So............. CLAUDE DEGLER-DON ROGERS WAS NOT INVITED TO THE RECENT MICHICON! NOR WAS HE EXCLUDED FROM SAID MICHICON! IN FACT, TECHNICALLY SPEAKING, THERE WAS NO MICHICON! Fandom rightfully expects an explanation of the so-called "Ashley Atrocity". Herewith, we present a true statement of what actually happened. In June of 1943, we purchased Slanshack. It was occupied by tenants who had been renting from the former owner, but they assured us they would be out inside of a month. Expecting to move shortly, we told Walt to come on up and sleep on that famous living-room floor at 86 Upton until we got possession of the house. But instead of the month, things dragged along for five of them. It finally took a little legal urging to get possession. So, with the gang expected to start arriving Saturday afternoon, we started moving o[n?] Friday noon---moving three full van-loads of stuff---and the whole thing was complicated by the fact that the former tenants were moving out at the same time. In fact they didn't get all their belongings hauled away until late Friday evening. So much for that part of it. Now when Jack Speer stopped off here on his way back from LA, he could stay only a few hours. But he promised to return for a longer visit if we cooked up some sort of Michicon. Shortly after this we got word from Tucker that he'd be up for a long-promised visit for a week. Because of travel conditions we had definitely decided there would be no Michicon in '43. Contributhing to this decision was the fact that so many members of the Mid-West FFF were either in Service or clear across the continent and unable to attend. But with Tucker coming and Speer willing to, something had to be done. We finally decided to stage a private get-together to inaugurate Slanshack. By special invitation we chose a group we thought could make it to Battle Creek, and would constitute a congenial gang for the two days to a week they would be here. But due to a misunderstanding, Tucker announced it in Newscard as the regular Michicon. On the face of it this shouldn't have made any
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[inside a box] EN GARDE! A FAPA PUBLICATION WHOLE NUMBER IX. [A little b/w drawing of a snake encircling the letters: ASP] Quite Quickly Quonstructed by--- AL and ABBY LU ASHLEY Of 25 POPLAR, BATTLE CREEK, MICH. MARCH, 1944, MAILING. [end of box] THE LITTLE MAN WHO WASN'T THERE or the MICHICON DELUSION ACT A very effective method of gaining reader-attention is to open one's article or story with one or more statements of a startling nature. So............. CLAUDE DEGLER-DON ROGERS WAS NOT INVITED TO THE RECENT MICHICON! NOR WAS HE EXCLUDED FROM SAID MICHICON! IN FACT, TECHNICALLY SPEAKING, THERE WAS NO MICHICON! Fandom rightfully expects an explanation of the so-called "Ashley Atrocity". Herewith, we present a true statement of what actually happened. In June of 1943, we purchased Slanshack. It was occupied by tenants who had been renting from the former owner, but they assured us they would be out inside of a month. Expecting to move shortly, we told Walt to come on up and sleep on that famous living-room floor at 86 Upton until we got possession of the house. But instead of the month, things dragged along for five of them. It finally took a little legal urging to get possession. So, with the gang expected to start arriving Saturday afternoon, we started moving o[n?] Friday noon---moving three full van-loads of stuff---and the whole thing was complicated by the fact that the former tenants were moving out at the same time. In fact they didn't get all their belongings hauled away until late Friday evening. So much for that part of it. Now when Jack Speer stopped off here on his way back from LA, he could stay only a few hours. But he promised to return for a longer visit if we cooked up some sort of Michicon. Shortly after this we got word from Tucker that he'd be up for a long-promised visit for a week. Because of travel conditions we had definitely decided there would be no Michicon in '43. Contributhing to this decision was the fact that so many members of the Mid-West FFF were either in Service or clear across the continent and unable to attend. But with Tucker coming and Speer willing to, something had to be done. We finally decided to stage a private get-together to inaugurate Slanshack. By special invitation we chose a group we thought could make it to Battle Creek, and would constitute a congenial gang for the two days to a week they would be here. But due to a misunderstanding, Tucker announced it in Newscard as the regular Michicon. On the face of it this shouldn't have made any
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