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Fandango, v. 3, issue 3, whole 11, Spring 1946
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very happy to have my stuff worked over so that it reads better. I do not mind in the least if my stuff is out, provided the gist of what I said is still presented in substantially my own words. But it gripes me more than words can say to send something to some editor and have it appear six months to a year later (if at all), or to find a bunch of extraneous misspellings and grammatical errors in the finished product. (I make enough boners of my own without having someone add to the horrendous total!) ((And I should amend what I said about prompt publication to cover the fact that I don't mind delays if I am told them in advance.)) But until there are more fan publishers maintaining the kind of standards I feel any publisher should as a matter of course maintain, and until/unless there is another magazine fairly close to the [underlined] Acolyte groove; then I'm afraid I'll have to go on publishing--much as I'd like to quit mimeographing forever, as of now. [line break]********************** Through a wholly unforgivable error, I neglected last time to give Jack Weidenbeck credit for doing the sketch of Satchmo on the cover. I abase myself. [line break]********************** [title in large, thin letters] COMMENTS ON POSTMAILED ITEMS This issue was intended to comprise only 10 pages but you busy little bees just wouldn't give my any surcease from my toils. Any time that such lovely stuff can come along, though, I'm only t[oo] happy to acknowledge it. [line break] --oo0oo-- [title underlined] MAN WITHOUT A NAME. For once in my FAPA career, I can actually see an embroglio that I should stay out of, [underlined] before I shoot off my mouth about it. What can have happened to me? [line break] --oo0oo-- [title underlined] MILTY'S MAG. I for once would be deeply grateful to Civilian Rothman if he would devote a few lines in MM to listing, with identifying criteria, his publishings in FAPA from 1943 to date. I must confess myself unable to get more than a rough approximation of a chronological arrangement of them, even if I did publish a couple of them myself. Undated, unnumbered---all one can go by is the context, and that's not always easy, nor is one always sure. I am not wholly in accord with Milty's ideas on "the destruction of dignity and ethical values because of the things people will do for cigarettes". Dignity and ethical values appear to be something that is fast disappearing from our alleged civilization, and I question if tobacco is especially to blame for it. There may be a slight difference in degree, but certainly not in kind, between the Europeans Milty saw scrambling for butts, and the hordes of well-dressed women right here in Los Angeles who hav[e] nothing better to do all day long but to hang around department stores to gobble up any nylon[s] which may be put out. Now is there? In many ways, in fact, I find these nylon seekers and their ilk as considerably lower than anything Milty may have seen. I must be remembered that the people of Europe have pretty much [underlined] had to scramble around rubbish heaps in order to get things they had to have, whereas scarcely anyone over here suffered anything worse than temporary inconveniences. With a fraction of the provocation, our own beloved fellow citizens fell as low. [centered] -- 11 --
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very happy to have my stuff worked over so that it reads better. I do not mind in the least if my stuff is out, provided the gist of what I said is still presented in substantially my own words. But it gripes me more than words can say to send something to some editor and have it appear six months to a year later (if at all), or to find a bunch of extraneous misspellings and grammatical errors in the finished product. (I make enough boners of my own without having someone add to the horrendous total!) ((And I should amend what I said about prompt publication to cover the fact that I don't mind delays if I am told them in advance.)) But until there are more fan publishers maintaining the kind of standards I feel any publisher should as a matter of course maintain, and until/unless there is another magazine fairly close to the [underlined] Acolyte groove; then I'm afraid I'll have to go on publishing--much as I'd like to quit mimeographing forever, as of now. [line break]********************** Through a wholly unforgivable error, I neglected last time to give Jack Weidenbeck credit for doing the sketch of Satchmo on the cover. I abase myself. [line break]********************** [title in large, thin letters] COMMENTS ON POSTMAILED ITEMS This issue was intended to comprise only 10 pages but you busy little bees just wouldn't give my any surcease from my toils. Any time that such lovely stuff can come along, though, I'm only t[oo] happy to acknowledge it. [line break] --oo0oo-- [title underlined] MAN WITHOUT A NAME. For once in my FAPA career, I can actually see an embroglio that I should stay out of, [underlined] before I shoot off my mouth about it. What can have happened to me? [line break] --oo0oo-- [title underlined] MILTY'S MAG. I for once would be deeply grateful to Civilian Rothman if he would devote a few lines in MM to listing, with identifying criteria, his publishings in FAPA from 1943 to date. I must confess myself unable to get more than a rough approximation of a chronological arrangement of them, even if I did publish a couple of them myself. Undated, unnumbered---all one can go by is the context, and that's not always easy, nor is one always sure. I am not wholly in accord with Milty's ideas on "the destruction of dignity and ethical values because of the things people will do for cigarettes". Dignity and ethical values appear to be something that is fast disappearing from our alleged civilization, and I question if tobacco is especially to blame for it. There may be a slight difference in degree, but certainly not in kind, between the Europeans Milty saw scrambling for butts, and the hordes of well-dressed women right here in Los Angeles who hav[e] nothing better to do all day long but to hang around department stores to gobble up any nylon[s] which may be put out. Now is there? In many ways, in fact, I find these nylon seekers and their ilk as considerably lower than anything Milty may have seen. I must be remembered that the people of Europe have pretty much [underlined] had to scramble around rubbish heaps in order to get things they had to have, whereas scarcely anyone over here suffered anything worse than temporary inconveniences. With a fraction of the provocation, our own beloved fellow citizens fell as low. [centered] -- 11 --
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