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Shangri-L'Affaires, whole no. 11, November 1942
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The Freehafer finally got them settled down. The meeting proper began. After the minutes and the treasurers' report things started popping again. Most important, Doctor DeCastro, the former ambassador to the Court of Spain and intimate of the famous Lovecraft, came in and was more or less -- mostly less -- introduced to the crowd at large. He made a short speech, speaking of Lovecraft at large and Bierce partly, then sat down. The bluc was startled at seeing him but finally decided he was one of 4e's cronies. They were much mistaken i this; the Doctor knew what he was talking about. Yerke bobbed up and down, here and there, taking flash pictures, likewise Dowdle .... took pictures, that is. 4e introduced everyone to everyone else by the simple method of having them get up when their names were called; after which the meeting settled down to the real business------ The Auction Oh, my! Daugherty was auctioneer, interposing his own bids, meanwhile a small picture began things, but no one had anything to say until the picture for which everyone had been waiting came up. This is a large Finlay in colour, and everyone wanted it. One or two people, however, notably Walt and Hasse, wanted it more. The bid started at fifteen dollars, and Walt gradually brought it up to seventeen, without much opposition. "Seventeen once---- seventeen twice----" "Eighteen," said Hasse calmly. Walt nearly jumped up and down and screamed. The bidding went on like this until twenty-five was reached. There Walt spiked his own guns and gave in, and it was Hasse's for twenty five. Later, Walt asked, just as a matter of curiosity what Henry would have gone to. "Even if you had bid twenty-six," answered Hasse cheerfully, it would have been yours," That's why they had to brin in the white jacket. The auction went on and on, picture after picture went out to the fans. Nearly nienty dollars was cleared in the deal, and then two pictures were raffled off at the end of the procedings. By that time evryone had the auction bug, and Joquel put up a bunch of books for sale. Thena street car pass went quickly. Someone even offered Morojo for auction. Things got rather out of hand, so the meeting broke, sort of gradually, but before everyone disappearted in the traditional slan style, pictures were tooken, and I mean tooken! First Dowdle got one of the group as a whole, then the gang suffered -- and not in silence, believe me -- while Daugherty took two others. That did it. -8-
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The Freehafer finally got them settled down. The meeting proper began. After the minutes and the treasurers' report things started popping again. Most important, Doctor DeCastro, the former ambassador to the Court of Spain and intimate of the famous Lovecraft, came in and was more or less -- mostly less -- introduced to the crowd at large. He made a short speech, speaking of Lovecraft at large and Bierce partly, then sat down. The bluc was startled at seeing him but finally decided he was one of 4e's cronies. They were much mistaken i this; the Doctor knew what he was talking about. Yerke bobbed up and down, here and there, taking flash pictures, likewise Dowdle .... took pictures, that is. 4e introduced everyone to everyone else by the simple method of having them get up when their names were called; after which the meeting settled down to the real business------ The Auction Oh, my! Daugherty was auctioneer, interposing his own bids, meanwhile a small picture began things, but no one had anything to say until the picture for which everyone had been waiting came up. This is a large Finlay in colour, and everyone wanted it. One or two people, however, notably Walt and Hasse, wanted it more. The bid started at fifteen dollars, and Walt gradually brought it up to seventeen, without much opposition. "Seventeen once---- seventeen twice----" "Eighteen," said Hasse calmly. Walt nearly jumped up and down and screamed. The bidding went on like this until twenty-five was reached. There Walt spiked his own guns and gave in, and it was Hasse's for twenty five. Later, Walt asked, just as a matter of curiosity what Henry would have gone to. "Even if you had bid twenty-six," answered Hasse cheerfully, it would have been yours," That's why they had to brin in the white jacket. The auction went on and on, picture after picture went out to the fans. Nearly nienty dollars was cleared in the deal, and then two pictures were raffled off at the end of the procedings. By that time evryone had the auction bug, and Joquel put up a bunch of books for sale. Thena street car pass went quickly. Someone even offered Morojo for auction. Things got rather out of hand, so the meeting broke, sort of gradually, but before everyone disappearted in the traditional slan style, pictures were tooken, and I mean tooken! First Dowdle got one of the group as a whole, then the gang suffered -- and not in silence, believe me -- while Daugherty took two others. That did it. -8-
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