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Vanguard Variorum, May 1946

16          VANGUARD VARIORUM

the Benet radio play having to do with the Vox Populi, this line, spoken by "An Older Voice, Conservative: And if you let the working-classes have coal, they'll fill it with bathtubs." Sine quibus non -- or, post, qyo, quid? vke.
Larry-Shaw (from here on out):
A) PRELIMINARY BOUTS
"Quick,"she snapped suddenly to her companion, "duck around this corner! Here comes that horrible old man with the format again."
They reached the safety of the side street just in time. Down the main thoroughfare they had just left a bent and shivering little figure tottered, creaking faintly as it passed. The old man's eyes peered dimly before him, and he had no inkling of the proximity of the young couple who had avoided him.
"That's Larry Shaw," the girl explained to her puzzled escort. "One of the charter member of The Vanguard, but he's really a terrible bore. All he ever talks about is the format of other peoples' magazines -- and never anything constructive;he simply keeps quetsching about how poor practically all the publications are in that respect! As if he had ever accomplished anything outstanding -- even in format! But he's no better than anyone. Why, in the museum the other day I saw the first issue of his Vanguard Variorum, and. . . ."
At this point, I could probably find takers for bets on the accuracy of this little vision of the future. I claim it ain't never gonna happen, 'cause I'm going to attempt to settle the question right now; but I daresay some of you are going to be hard to convince.
Look, in the first place, you could splash all the comments I've made in print about magazine formats all over the cover of Renascence, and you'd still have to look three or four times to see them at all. Go back and count them up, chums. I've made lots of side-comments to members if person, sure; but if those are going to count let me know about it so I can revise my ideas on how Vanguard works, eh?
And I never said I was an authority on format, either. To be trite, I'm not a barber, but I can still tell when damon needs a haircut. This is being unnecessarily humble, though: I think my formats are okay, mostly. My printing may be lousy sometimes (It was last issue. I hereby apologize to practically all of you. I can't explain, because I'm still puzzled as to what caused it.); but some sort of planning and layout is always there.
Which is all I ask of anybody. Some sort of planning and layout. Of course, if you get a typer with a crumby type-face, as has happened to Kidd f'rinstance, that's going to affect your formal and there's not much you can do. But a little attention to details -- all of which are very individual depending on the general plan -- will make a mountain of difference.
In the future, I shall continue to comment on the formats of Vanguard publications -- especially when they stink. I hope that Danner, and whoever else agrees with us, will to. There's room for plenty of improvement. And it just possibly might be a good idea to make the mailings attractive to prospective members, no?
II. Oh me. This is a problem, it seems, that people who are experts on absolutely nothing are doomed to run into fairly often. This time, however, I'll face it with something I read in PM, which quoted it from Walter Winchell in The Daily

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16 VANGUARD VARIORUM the Benet radio play having to do with the Vox Populi, this line, spoken by "An Older Voice, Conservative: And if you let the working-classes have coal, they'll fill it with bathtubs." Sine quibus non -- or, post, qyo, quid? vke. Larry-Shaw (from here on out): A) PRELIMINARY BOUTS "Quick,"she snapped suddenly to her companion, "duck around this corner! Here comes that horrible old man with the format again." They reached the safety of the side street just in time. Down the main thoroughfare they had just left a bent and shivering little figure tottered, creaking faintly as it passed. The old man's eyes peered dimly before him, and he had no inkling of the proximity of the young couple who had avoided him. "That's Larry Shaw," the girl explained to her puzzled escort. "One of the charter member of The Vanguard, but he's really a terrible bore. All he ever talks about is the format of other peoples' magazines -- and never anything constructive;he simply keeps quetsching about how poor practically all the publications are in that respect! As if he had ever accomplished anything outstanding -- even in format! But he's no better than anyone. Why, in the museum the other day I saw the first issue of his Vanguard Variorum, and. . . ." At this point, I could probably find takers for bets on the accuracy of this little vision of the future. I claim it ain't never gonna happen, 'cause I'm going to attempt to settle the question right now; but I daresay some of you are going to be hard to convince. Look, in the first place, you could splash all the comments I've made in print about magazine formats all over the cover of Renascence, and you'd still have to look three or four times to see them at all. Go back and count them up, chums. I've made lots of side-comments to members if person, sure; but if those are going to count let me know about it so I can revise my ideas on how Vanguard works, eh? And I never said I was an authority on format, either. To be trite, I'm not a barber, but I can still tell when damon needs a haircut. This is being unnecessarily humble, though: I think my formats are okay, mostly. My printing may be lousy sometimes (It was last issue. I hereby apologize to practically all of you. I can't explain, because I'm still puzzled as to what caused it.); but some sort of planning and layout is always there. Which is all I ask of anybody. Some sort of planning and layout. Of course, if you get a typer with a crumby type-face, as has happened to Kidd f'rinstance, that's going to affect your formal and there's not much you can do. But a little attention to details -- all of which are very individual depending on the general plan -- will make a mountain of difference. In the future, I shall continue to comment on the formats of Vanguard publications -- especially when they stink. I hope that Danner, and whoever else agrees with us, will to. There's room for plenty of improvement. And it just possibly might be a good idea to make the mailings attractive to prospective members, no? II. Oh me. This is a problem, it seems, that people who are experts on absolutely nothing are doomed to run into fairly often. This time, however, I'll face it with something I read in PM, which quoted it from Walter Winchell in The Daily