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Fanfare, v. 1, issue 3, August 1940

Page 14

POLL NEWS (cont.)

FANS

6. Swisher: 63
7. Moskowitz: 55
8. Madle: 47
9. Hamling: 42
10. Reinsberg and Widner: 35
11. Morojo: 33
12. Taurasi: 31
13. Wilson: 25
14. Speer: 24
15. Michel: 23
16. Daugherty: 22
17. Sykora: 18
18. Youd: 17
19: Avery, Hodgkins, and Koenig: 16

ARTISTS (cover)

1. Paul: 70
2. Finlay: 60
3. Rogers: 51
4. Wesso: 50
5. Brown: 37

(interior)

1. Finlay: 104
2. Paul: 57
3. Wesso: 43
4. Bok: 34
5. Dold: 28

(all-around)

1. Finlay: 88
2. Paul: 59
3. Wesso: 40
4. Bok and Cartier: 22
5. Schneeman: 19
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DOINGS OF THE STRANGERS

First of all, we want to apologize to all concerned for the inaccurate statement made in last month's DOTS. (Hmmm, think I'll change the title of the column to DOTS hereafter.) We said Chauvenet had in FANTASCIENCE DIGEST, an amusing piece under a pseudonym. This, of course, was untrue. In our desperation, and zeal to make this column something interesting, we hazarded a wild guess, and missed fire completely. We had some reason for our stab in the dark, as we knew Russell was the author of LEGIONS OF LEGIONS in SPACEWAYS some time back, and because this piece -- we are talking about THE FROLIC APACE by Edward Elmer Campbell; it's time we let everybody on what we ARE talking about -- so resembled it in humorous satire, we naturally supposed LRC was sounding off again in his inimitable way. But we were wrong, and we mutely bow the columnal conk, and hope nobody is offended. Also, our respects to the real author, whoever he or she is, for a mighty enterprising piece of fan writing...

Now on to other things...Saturday, June 15, 1940, was the occasion of the first informal gathering of any of the Strangers. Art Widner had heard from a long lost correspondent -- one Steve Reckert, of Terre Haute, Indiana (quick Bob, your index!) -- that he, Steve, would be in Boston for a few hours, on his way home from prep school. Accordingly, we wound up the Berganholms on the Skylark of Foo, picked up John Bell in Whitman, and clattered and clanked our way northward. Arriving in Boston, we found Steve waiting in excellent condition, then contacted Earl Singleton over at MIT, and finding him in, did a flit to Cambridge, then back to Boston for a tour of the bookstores.

Lots of jabber was jabbered, but we can't remember much of it, save that it was highly interesting and your columnist will remember Der Tag for quite a while. Steve picked up a volume of french drama by Racine (I think), Singleton, Gertrude Aterton's DIDO, and snagged Dunsany's IF right out from under the columnal schnozzle, Bell bagged a couple of old editions of Verne, with gilt and fresco an inch thick, and a couple of textbooks. Yours truly got six books; two volumes of Kipling's short fantasies, Taine's Quale Invention, Coreilli's A Romance of Two Worlds, and Dr. Jekyll combined with The Merry Men. That's only five, issues it please.

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POLL NEWS (cont.) FANS 6. Swisher: 63 7. Moskowitz: 55 8. Madle: 47 9. Hamling: 42 10. Reinsberg and Widner: 35 11. Morojo: 33 12. Taurasi: 31 13. Wilson: 25 14. Speer: 24 15. Michel: 23 16. Daugherty: 22 17. Sykora: 18 18. Youd: 17 19: Avery, Hodgkins, and Koenig: 16 ARTISTS (cover) 1. Paul: 70 2. Finlay: 60 3. Rogers: 51 4. Wesso: 50 5. Brown: 37 (interior) 1. Finlay: 104 2. Paul: 57 3. Wesso: 43 4. Bok: 34 5. Dold: 28 (all-around) 1. Finlay: 88 2. Paul: 59 3. Wesso: 40 4. Bok and Cartier: 22 5. Schneeman: 19 ------------------------- DOINGS OF THE STRANGERS First of all, we want to apologize to all concerned for the inaccurate statement made in last month's DOTS. (Hmmm, think I'll change the title of the column to DOTS hereafter.) We said Chauvenet had in FANTASCIENCE DIGEST, an amusing piece under a pseudonym. This, of course, was untrue. In our desperation, and zeal to make this column something interesting, we hazarded a wild guess, and missed fire completely. We had some reason for our stab in the dark, as we knew Russell was the author of LEGIONS OF LEGIONS in SPACEWAYS some time back, and because this piece -- we are talking about THE FROLIC APACE by Edward Elmer Campbell; it's time we let everybody on what we ARE talking about -- so resembled it in humorous satire, we naturally supposed LRC was sounding off again in his inimitable way. But we were wrong, and we mutely bow the columnal conk, and hope nobody is offended. Also, our respects to the real author, whoever he or she is, for a mighty enterprising piece of fan writing... Now on to other things...Saturday, June 15, 1940, was the occasion of the first informal gathering of any of the Strangers. Art Widner had heard from a long lost correspondent -- one Steve Reckert, of Terre Haute, Indiana (quick Bob, your index!) -- that he, Steve, would be in Boston for a few hours, on his way home from prep school. Accordingly, we wound up the Berganholms on the Skylark of Foo, picked up John Bell in Whitman, and clattered and clanked our way northward. Arriving in Boston, we found Steve waiting in excellent condition, then contacted Earl Singleton over at MIT, and finding him in, did a flit to Cambridge, then back to Boston for a tour of the bookstores. Lots of jabber was jabbered, but we can't remember much of it, save that it was highly interesting and your columnist will remember Der Tag for quite a while. Steve picked up a volume of french drama by Racine (I think), Singleton, Gertrude Aterton's DIDO, and snagged Dunsany's IF right out from under the columnal schnozzle, Bell bagged a couple of old editions of Verne, with gilt and fresco an inch thick, and a couple of textbooks. Yours truly got six books; two volumes of Kipling's short fantasies, Taine's Quale Invention, Coreilli's A Romance of Two Worlds, and Dr. Jekyll combined with The Merry Men. That's only five, issues it please.