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Fantasy Fictioneer, v. 1, issue 2, January-February 1940
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A LADY SEES THE CONVENTION--- by Leslie Perri [pen name for Doris Marie Claire "Doë" Baumgardt] Upon arriving one discovered eight, (but you list nine! - editor) extremely long-faced individuals on the side-walks of New York, or more specifically those directly before Caravan Hall. (The Convention hall - editor.) It took delicate stepping to avoid their carcasses as well as their wails and bewailing. (we are biased and are prepared to discourse lengthly [lengthily] on the fact that they were justified - author.) A) [Pohl?]...cold eyed and disapproving, kicking his heels against stone steps and smoking with philosophical calm. Beaming with occasiional [occasional] approval of his own darling Perri scooting thither and yon with the righteous fire of indignation in her carefully accentuated almond eyes. B) Wollheim...looking sour with ready sarcastic gleams of comment and an ugly grin waiting to gobble up the Sykora on sight. C) Michel...trying to be affable, opening and closing an overlength cigarette case, (does he still carry that? -editor) smoking overlength of cigarettes and regarding the sky with mosr [most] disinterested eyes (Till his femme arrived...then she promptly left for the Fokine Ballot with the femme of... D) Doc Lowndes...who glassily eyes everything with extreme weariness. He never so muched [much] as glanced at the buildings as he generally bemoaned his fate...and watched with some interest the antics of our dainty pot E) Cyril Kornbluth...who gambolled [gamboled] as merrily as a spring lamb and waved his paws in glee at the thought of devouring a Moskowitz steak of a Tausari lamb or a Skykora rump....Later he carolled [caroled] and caroused in earnest and finally took a very undignified nosedive into oblivion, (are you insinuating that CK was drinking! -editor) almost as expertly as our own souselet F) Dockweiler...who came well healed [heeled] with an eager little sneer for those in power in the hall upstairs. He shook his singularly straight and singularly long locks over his eyes very happily all afternoon and nibbled his nails while little quick eyes took in the scene with diabolical glee...(Something Was Happening) H) Wilson was ambling along with Perri converting poor people and lobbying very excitedly. He acted as bodyguard, introducer and general smiling intrepreuer [interpreter]. As a middleman, he was an exception to the rule and extremely necessary. I) Kyle...quiet and convincing and very very earnest with an eye on Dockweiler's little black case with the "oil". He did his very best...but the best, it seems, was not enough....
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A LADY SEES THE CONVENTION--- by Leslie Perri [pen name for Doris Marie Claire "Doë" Baumgardt] Upon arriving one discovered eight, (but you list nine! - editor) extremely long-faced individuals on the side-walks of New York, or more specifically those directly before Caravan Hall. (The Convention hall - editor.) It took delicate stepping to avoid their carcasses as well as their wails and bewailing. (we are biased and are prepared to discourse lengthly [lengthily] on the fact that they were justified - author.) A) [Pohl?]...cold eyed and disapproving, kicking his heels against stone steps and smoking with philosophical calm. Beaming with occasiional [occasional] approval of his own darling Perri scooting thither and yon with the righteous fire of indignation in her carefully accentuated almond eyes. B) Wollheim...looking sour with ready sarcastic gleams of comment and an ugly grin waiting to gobble up the Sykora on sight. C) Michel...trying to be affable, opening and closing an overlength cigarette case, (does he still carry that? -editor) smoking overlength of cigarettes and regarding the sky with mosr [most] disinterested eyes (Till his femme arrived...then she promptly left for the Fokine Ballot with the femme of... D) Doc Lowndes...who glassily eyes everything with extreme weariness. He never so muched [much] as glanced at the buildings as he generally bemoaned his fate...and watched with some interest the antics of our dainty pot E) Cyril Kornbluth...who gambolled [gamboled] as merrily as a spring lamb and waved his paws in glee at the thought of devouring a Moskowitz steak of a Tausari lamb or a Skykora rump....Later he carolled [caroled] and caroused in earnest and finally took a very undignified nosedive into oblivion, (are you insinuating that CK was drinking! -editor) almost as expertly as our own souselet F) Dockweiler...who came well healed [heeled] with an eager little sneer for those in power in the hall upstairs. He shook his singularly straight and singularly long locks over his eyes very happily all afternoon and nibbled his nails while little quick eyes took in the scene with diabolical glee...(Something Was Happening) H) Wilson was ambling along with Perri converting poor people and lobbying very excitedly. He acted as bodyguard, introducer and general smiling intrepreuer [interpreter]. As a middleman, he was an exception to the rule and extremely necessary. I) Kyle...quiet and convincing and very very earnest with an eye on Dockweiler's little black case with the "oil". He did his very best...but the best, it seems, was not enough....
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