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(SAM) YOUD, 244 Desborough Rd, Eastleigh, Hants, Eng, seems to feel that to spare the hand is to spoil the fanne. "It is rather funny" he says "to see American fans falling by proxy for an affected young school girl who needs, primarily, a hell of a good tanning. And, from her photograph, I imagine that would be very nice for the tanner!" Sounds liek a job for Tumithak's creator. Charles be nimble, Charles be quick; Charles tame Tig with a hickory stick. Charles Tanner. Facetiousness aside, tho, it is our considered opinion-- Forry  & Morojo-- that if Tigrina acts like a child, treating her like one would not be conducive to making her grow up. In other words, one coud spank the devil out of her only figuratively-- not literally. What did brute force ever prove anyway? Tigrina is a girl, slight of stature: Most any woud-be tanner probly coud pin her down if he didn't mind a slasht face & some bruised shins in the process; after the farce was over & his sadistic spleen has been vented he woud have no repented angel on his lap but a hellcat with murder in her mind. "Beat Me Daddy, I'm Late to the Bar" is but a hangover from the hirstute days when men were brutes & the prevailing colors for women were black & blue. No, stfandom surely must have some civilized solution to Tigrina's perversion. 30.

YES, TUCKER, WE WILL BE GLAD TO ANNOUNCE TO BEING A RE-MEMEBER OF STFANDOM.

BARRON tells about himself for Meet the Reader!

"Rusty is just a guy who decided about the time the Devention came off, that it was high time to be getting into the stfan field. But bak to the beginning. I was born, but won't attemtto prove it, in California several years ago. Started traveling about as soon as that was over with, and have been at it ever since until I came to Philly. Learned to read b4 I went to school, and have been at that ever since, too. Can't remember when I first got interested in stf; too long ago. I remember the Tom Swifts, Crusoes, '20,000', and quite a few Paul covers rather vaguely. Have a few faint memories of story plots appearing in about teh first stf mags that came out. After reading those, I passed out of the mag field and covered all the books I could find that seemed to fill the bill, forgetting that there even were any such things as the pro mags specializing in stf. That was when I was too young to work and know what to do with dough when I did get some. Then I got started again in '35 with DOC SAVAGE, and TERENCE X O'LEARY'S WAR BIRDS. Shortly after this, I ran across a stf pro (don't remember which one) and realized that that was what I had been reading (in different and superior format and style) back in the Dark Ages of my earliest reading. Tried ot get hold of back issues so I could find out what I had read and forgotten. Traded as fast as I read 'em at first, but then decided to collect. After a couple of years of this, it became quite some problem to keep 'em and keep on the move, so it was imperative that I stop moving. I didn't; lost quite a few items that I never expect to replace at any reasonable cost. Was living in San Bernardino, Calif when I decided that if I were going to the Denvention, I ought to go into LA and meet some of the fans who might be going. Met my first fan, 4e, on June 27 last year, then rode my thumb to Denver to meet more. Kept on from there with Widner, Rothman, Unger, and Madle to the latter's home in Philly. Still there. Have been to the Boskone, helped put out one  ish of RAM's FD, and ahve my own weekly sheet, NEBULA--The Fantasy Fan Record, and had one article on the Denvention printed in THE FANTASITE, as Rustebar, from the first part of my full name, Rust E(rin) Barron. What next? I dunno."

(SGT SHINN) - first nonattending, extraurban, duespaying LASFS mem, last route us: "Perhaps throughout the length of this missive, I shall endeavour to mimic the VoM style of the slangwidge. 'Twon't be good, but it couldn't be much worser than some of that available in the latest VoM (Hallowe'en 42 Dyktawo?) '' Seems somebody don't love Acky's handwritin'. Well, ain't that sad. These cracks about handwriting are the gadgets that accellerate my metobolism. If anything is a person's personal perogative, it seems that his way of writing is entirely his own. Phooey upon him or them inclusively. '' (Above repercussions re handwriting becuz I (me) have the swirliest and curliest and the most illegibliest writing I have ever seen.) '' Tigrina and her demons seem to be attracking a lot of comment from various and sundry people. They don't like bogies. O.K. I don't like bogies either. I also don't like asparagus. If somebody else likes either of 'em, step right off to't, matey, you have my approval. For what it's worth, '' The expose of the Black Mass illustrated on page 13 is good. But that same illustration could be used to show how I felt when I had finished looking over the two folios of VoMaidens. Phf. I admire female figgers in all stages of dress, undress, distress, etc. but when the illustrator, drawer, otherwise gets his anatomy all mixed up, my total impression is gu-loom. When someone draws some good ones, I'll cheer louder than anybody. Y'unnerstan?"

The affable aforegoing Romoso may Have the swirliest and curliest chirografy in fandom, but for sheer scrawliness & indeciferability, we find unsurpast to be that of LEN MOFFATT, 419 Summit Ave, Ellwood City, Pa, who says something like that following: "Greetings VoMob! Hope you feature these fanographicovers every other month. Or is that asking too much ???? I was especially pleased to see the pics of fans with whom I correspond (ECCO, RAYM, JMR, etc.). Shor was too bad about Cunningham's pic - he should be featured on a cover all by himself. The more I hear of, and the more I hear from the Texan, the better I like him. Of course, the fact is, I love all the stfans, more or less (and mostly more). Tucker looked like another famous Illinois fella, name of Abe Lincoln. Hmm-Bob quoted Lincoln not long ago in LEZ! Hmmm-- Lookee! Looke! Right there in the middle with Leslie Perri! Now if Trudy had only been

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(SAM) YOUD, 244 Desborough Rd, Eastleigh, Hants, Eng, seems to feel that to spare the hand is to spoil the fanne. "It is rather funny" he says "to see American fans falling by proxy for an affected young school girl who needs, primarily, a hell of a good tanning. And, from her photograph, I imagine that would be very nice for the tanner!" Sounds liek a job for Tumithak's creator. Charles be nimble, Charles be quick; Charles tame Tig with a hickory stick. Charles Tanner. Facetiousness aside, tho, it is our considered opinion-- Forry & Morojo-- that if Tigrina acts like a child, treating her like one would not be conducive to making her grow up. In other words, one coud spank the devil out of her only figuratively-- not literally. What did brute force ever prove anyway? Tigrina is a girl, slight of stature: Most any woud-be tanner probly coud pin her down if he didn't mind a slasht face & some bruised shins in the process; after the farce was over & his sadistic spleen has been vented he woud have no repented angel on his lap but a hellcat with murder in her mind. "Beat Me Daddy, I'm Late to the Bar" is but a hangover from the hirstute days when men were brutes & the prevailing colors for women were black & blue. No, stfandom surely must have some civilized solution to Tigrina's perversion. 30. YES, TUCKER, WE WILL BE GLAD TO ANNOUNCE TO BEING A RE-MEMEBER OF STFANDOM. BARRON tells about himself for Meet the Reader! "Rusty is just a guy who decided about the time the Devention came off, that it was high time to be getting into the stfan field. But bak to the beginning. I was born, but won't attemtto prove it, in California several years ago. Started traveling about as soon as that was over with, and have been at it ever since until I came to Philly. Learned to read b4 I went to school, and have been at that ever since, too. Can't remember when I first got interested in stf; too long ago. I remember the Tom Swifts, Crusoes, '20,000', and quite a few Paul covers rather vaguely. Have a few faint memories of story plots appearing in about teh first stf mags that came out. After reading those, I passed out of the mag field and covered all the books I could find that seemed to fill the bill, forgetting that there even were any such things as the pro mags specializing in stf. That was when I was too young to work and know what to do with dough when I did get some. Then I got started again in '35 with DOC SAVAGE, and TERENCE X O'LEARY'S WAR BIRDS. Shortly after this, I ran across a stf pro (don't remember which one) and realized that that was what I had been reading (in different and superior format and style) back in the Dark Ages of my earliest reading. Tried ot get hold of back issues so I could find out what I had read and forgotten. Traded as fast as I read 'em at first, but then decided to collect. After a couple of years of this, it became quite some problem to keep 'em and keep on the move, so it was imperative that I stop moving. I didn't; lost quite a few items that I never expect to replace at any reasonable cost. Was living in San Bernardino, Calif when I decided that if I were going to the Denvention, I ought to go into LA and meet some of the fans who might be going. Met my first fan, 4e, on June 27 last year, then rode my thumb to Denver to meet more. Kept on from there with Widner, Rothman, Unger, and Madle to the latter's home in Philly. Still there. Have been to the Boskone, helped put out one ish of RAM's FD, and ahve my own weekly sheet, NEBULA--The Fantasy Fan Record, and had one article on the Denvention printed in THE FANTASITE, as Rustebar, from the first part of my full name, Rust E(rin) Barron. What next? I dunno." (SGT SHINN) - first nonattending, extraurban, duespaying LASFS mem, last route us: "Perhaps throughout the length of this missive, I shall endeavour to mimic the VoM style of the slangwidge. 'Twon't be good, but it couldn't be much worser than some of that available in the latest VoM (Hallowe'en 42 Dyktawo?) '' Seems somebody don't love Acky's handwritin'. Well, ain't that sad. These cracks about handwriting are the gadgets that accellerate my metobolism. If anything is a person's personal perogative, it seems that his way of writing is entirely his own. Phooey upon him or them inclusively. '' (Above repercussions re handwriting becuz I (me) have the swirliest and curliest and the most illegibliest writing I have ever seen.) '' Tigrina and her demons seem to be attracking a lot of comment from various and sundry people. They don't like bogies. O.K. I don't like bogies either. I also don't like asparagus. If somebody else likes either of 'em, step right off to't, matey, you have my approval. For what it's worth, '' The expose of the Black Mass illustrated on page 13 is good. But that same illustration could be used to show how I felt when I had finished looking over the two folios of VoMaidens. Phf. I admire female figgers in all stages of dress, undress, distress, etc. but when the illustrator, drawer, otherwise gets his anatomy all mixed up, my total impression is gu-loom. When someone draws some good ones, I'll cheer louder than anybody. Y'unnerstan?" The affable aforegoing Romoso may Have the swirliest and curliest chirografy in fandom, but for sheer scrawliness & indeciferability, we find unsurpast to be that of LEN MOFFATT, 419 Summit Ave, Ellwood City, Pa, who says something like that following: "Greetings VoMob! Hope you feature these fanographicovers every other month. Or is that asking too much ???? I was especially pleased to see the pics of fans with whom I correspond (ECCO, RAYM, JMR, etc.). Shor was too bad about Cunningham's pic - he should be featured on a cover all by himself. The more I hear of, and the more I hear from the Texan, the better I like him. Of course, the fact is, I love all the stfans, more or less (and mostly more). Tucker looked like another famous Illinois fella, name of Abe Lincoln. Hmm-Bob quoted Lincoln not long ago in LEZ! Hmmm-- Lookee! Looke! Right there in the middle with Leslie Perri! Now if Trudy had only been