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Shangri-L'Affaires No. 12
News of Southern California STF Activity (#11 apeard in VoM #16)

HYPNOTISMEETING
    "Kosmo"--Doctor of the Subsconscious Mind--was Guest Speaker--and demonstrator--at the LASFS two weeks ago.  At the invitation of member Dave Elder, the psychotherapist & his wife attended & Dr. Gaynor oferd to tell us a bit about hypnotism.  Some 28 persons were present during the evening, including Walt & Eleanor Daugherty, Paul Freehafer, Morojo, Art Joquel, 4e, Erle Korshak, Julie Schwartz, Ray Bradbury, Leigh Brackett, Bruce Yerke, Franklyn Brady, Pogo, Henry Hasse & Charlie Hornig.  Ed Chamberlain volunteerd as a subject & subsequently was caused to believe that he had been tapt on the left shoulder by the hypnotist altho we all coud see he had not been toucht. Next Dr. Gaynor demonstrated mass hypnotism, where we all held hands, gazed at a crystal, followd his commands, & presently were told our eyes were glued shut & we could not open them.  "You can try--but you will fail!"  Stubborn minds like Morojo's--& Yerke, applying semantis to the situation--& Joquel, who did not enter the chain--had all they could do to keep their eyes from opening; BUT at least 4 did report difficulty in unlocking their eyelids.  Next Erle Korshak--whom I shoudve thot woudve known better, after the long-to-be-rememberd Levitation Act of 1939 that Pohl & Michel perpetrated on him in Wollheim's apt., with Reinsberg, Ackerman, Lowndes & others as interested observers--well Erle, whom one woudve expected to have been cured, stept up to be sent into the sleepy-state.  He made quite a convincing automaton as he stiffly follwd Kosmo's unvoiced commands to walk in first one direction & then another.  A little later the Imagi-natives were treated to the spectacle of the entrancing Virginia LAney en-tranced (i.e. in a somnambulistic state).  Enhancing the amusement was the attempt on the part of Yerke, Daugherty & Bradbury to move her arm after the hypnotist had told her that it was a bar of iron cemented at her shoulder.  Dr. Gaynor suggested that at one oclock that nite she woud have a dream of a great and brilliant diamond; but it is understood that Virginia never had this dream as after the meeting she accompanied a gang taking Korshak and Johann Gardner (who hitchhiked to the Denvention together) sightseeing in lower Los Angeles.  It is expected Dr. Gaynor & his clairvoyant wife will figure further in future reports as both exprest intentions of joining.  I do not have the membership list handy, this being in the posssession of the Treasurer; but I believe the addition of these 2 woud make our dues-paying roster 25.  This is quite a figure when U figure that such persons do not figure in that figure as Charlie Hornig, Bill Crawford, 4e & Art Barnes (being Honorary Members) & guests every so often like Phil & Flo Bronson, Korshak & Gardner, Ed Hamilton, Bob & Leslyn Heinlein, Voodoro, Jack Williamson, Cleve Cartmill, etc.  Incidentally, Cartmill, who will have a novel featured soon in Unknown Worlds, will be marryd in Sept to a scrumptions local girl who at present is working at the Academy & reads science fiction too!

NEWS & PREVIEWS
    The Angelenos' Annual Beach Party...A group to visit Bob Olsen...3rd Pacificon Society biwkly meeting at Freehafer's...An evening of Denvention records at Yerke's...these & other activitys marked by record attendance are either just past or coming up in the very near future.

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Shangri-L'Affaires No. 12 News of Southern California STF Activity (#11 apeard in VoM #16) HYPNOTISMEETING "Kosmo"--Doctor of the Subsconscious Mind--was Guest Speaker--and demonstrator--at the LASFS two weeks ago. At the invitation of member Dave Elder, the psychotherapist & his wife attended & Dr. Gaynor oferd to tell us a bit about hypnotism. Some 28 persons were present during the evening, including Walt & Eleanor Daugherty, Paul Freehafer, Morojo, Art Joquel, 4e, Erle Korshak, Julie Schwartz, Ray Bradbury, Leigh Brackett, Bruce Yerke, Franklyn Brady, Pogo, Henry Hasse & Charlie Hornig. Ed Chamberlain volunteerd as a subject & subsequently was caused to believe that he had been tapt on the left shoulder by the hypnotist altho we all coud see he had not been toucht. Next Dr. Gaynor demonstrated mass hypnotism, where we all held hands, gazed at a crystal, followd his commands, & presently were told our eyes were glued shut & we could not open them. "You can try--but you will fail!" Stubborn minds like Morojo's--& Yerke, applying semantis to the situation--& Joquel, who did not enter the chain--had all they could do to keep their eyes from opening; BUT at least 4 did report difficulty in unlocking their eyelids. Next Erle Korshak--whom I shoudve thot woudve known better, after the long-to-be-rememberd Levitation Act of 1939 that Pohl & Michel perpetrated on him in Wollheim's apt., with Reinsberg, Ackerman, Lowndes & others as interested observers--well Erle, whom one woudve expected to have been cured, stept up to be sent into the sleepy-state. He made quite a convincing automaton as he stiffly follwd Kosmo's unvoiced commands to walk in first one direction & then another. A little later the Imagi-natives were treated to the spectacle of the entrancing Virginia LAney en-tranced (i.e. in a somnambulistic state). Enhancing the amusement was the attempt on the part of Yerke, Daugherty & Bradbury to move her arm after the hypnotist had told her that it was a bar of iron cemented at her shoulder. Dr. Gaynor suggested that at one oclock that nite she woud have a dream of a great and brilliant diamond; but it is understood that Virginia never had this dream as after the meeting she accompanied a gang taking Korshak and Johann Gardner (who hitchhiked to the Denvention together) sightseeing in lower Los Angeles. It is expected Dr. Gaynor & his clairvoyant wife will figure further in future reports as both exprest intentions of joining. I do not have the membership list handy, this being in the posssession of the Treasurer; but I believe the addition of these 2 woud make our dues-paying roster 25. This is quite a figure when U figure that such persons do not figure in that figure as Charlie Hornig, Bill Crawford, 4e & Art Barnes (being Honorary Members) & guests every so often like Phil & Flo Bronson, Korshak & Gardner, Ed Hamilton, Bob & Leslyn Heinlein, Voodoro, Jack Williamson, Cleve Cartmill, etc. Incidentally, Cartmill, who will have a novel featured soon in Unknown Worlds, will be marryd in Sept to a scrumptions local girl who at present is working at the Academy & reads science fiction too! NEWS & PREVIEWS The Angelenos' Annual Beach Party...A group to visit Bob Olsen...3rd Pacificon Society biwkly meeting at Freehafer's...An evening of Denvention records at Yerke's...these & other activitys marked by record attendance are either just past or coming up in the very near future.