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IMAGINATION! #12 38 Sep 
est lies in the beautiful difference of her."  (For once a woman is rendered speechless! Such praise--so seldom--overpowers me. Forry practically wept, from reaction. -- Madge.)

John B. Michel, whom U all know so well: "Sorry to have given you any impression that I was in a high and mighty temper and further sorry, oh, so, so, very, very, sorry that I wronged Shroyer in thinking he engineered the censorship. Nevertheless, my sentiments, though Hornig called them absurdly pompous or something like that, was and remains that of the letter. I realise of course that you people have to satisfy your customers (a free press, of course!) by publishing what they like, no matter how nonsensical and utterly wrong it might be.   ~~  Don't think that I'm preaching an absolutely serious and rigid policy for Madge,   My word, I'm the last, the very last man in the world to get too serious about anything.   But utter
tripe is too much. And I believe that Shroyer's opinions and more especially the entire last issue as edited by that pale lily Hornig (this is not an insult to Hornig whether he thinks so or not) were baloney of the worst order. I cannot recall precisely the things I disliked, but remember Moskowitz's horrible article with a bad taste in my mouth,   ~~ how, how, if you don't mind my asking, did that awful thing
get in?... Do you realize what that Moskowitz article was?  A disconnected, irrational, florid, blowing of words that in the stages of analysis are found to mean nothing at all.   ~~  Whoever let the thing in either had a colossal sense of humor or knows nothing whatsoever about writing.  I want to resubmit my previous article rejected by you people.   My reasons for doing this are entirely selfish inasmuch
as they relate to the Michellstic movement. I consider the article an adequate reply to Shroyer and his ilk and I think I am entitled to a chance to vindicate myself before the same audience that Shroyer addressed. Certainly all the readers of your magazine must be interested in fair play."   (What say, fair Players—is it or aint it?

Bob Tucker the "dead Dictator", 216 E Monroe St. Bloomington/Ill: "Received the sample copy of IMAGINATION yesterday and consider that i have got a dimes worth. Am taking your invitation on page 18 of the July issue to heart and am enclosing a contribution... I enjoyed this issue very much (the second I have over say; — having received a copy from you fellas last Fall sometime), I really like the cover for the neatness and color do much to attract the eye. I believe the contents page on of the best author in fan or professional magazines, I like the double column and paragraphing idea
very much, as the other way went to make~up a lot of confusion,. ~~  And I'm still in
a sweat wondering whether Pogo Pogo are those islands I mentioned in the last letter
or one of your members walking around on two or more feet."  (Pogo's no stick!)

"I like the Aug, issue better than Charley's" succinctly states CARROLL WYMARK of San Francisco.

JACK COBURN, fanmag alias for a well known author. tells us "The new Madge! is most pleasing, though, as usual, the news columns are more interesting than the funny stuff,   I like the cover,   Kuslan has some good, ideas in his article, though I'm afraid the dream of paying s-f writers 3¢ a word vanished with the halcyon days of 1928, when Clayton, for example, did pay that fairly often, and never went below 2¢. The character-analysis feature is an excellent Idea,.."   (Maybe some of you
might wonder now & then just what was left out where these dots of omission appear... Sometimes it's something irrelevant. This time there followed the semicolon. "and I
was deeply touched by your reference to* ,& then the author proceeded to name himself--so, since we are not at liberty to divulge his identity...)
That man Miske again! "Received today was the old faithful for August. Early, but quite welcome. "After that nightmare, that Abyss-spawned creation of last month, well, fellows - and 
gals, Morojo - I was touched; yessir, touched.   It's a pretty good issue, and, of course, compared to the last, it's pennies - or manna, or something - from heaven,

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IMAGINATION! #12 38 Sep est lies in the beautiful difference of her." (For once a woman is rendered speechless! Such praise--so seldom--overpowers me. Forry practically wept, from reaction. -- Madge.) John B. Michel, whom U all know so well: "Sorry to have given you any impression that I was in a high and mighty temper and further sorry, oh, so, so, very, very, sorry that I wronged Shroyer in thinking he engineered the censorship. Nevertheless, my sentiments, though Hornig called them absurdly pompous or something like that, was and remains that of the letter. I realise of course that you people have to satisfy your customers (a free press, of course!) by publishing what they like, no matter how nonsensical and utterly wrong it might be. ~~ Don't think that I'm preaching an absolutely serious and rigid policy for Madge, My word, I'm the last, the very last man in the world to get too serious about anything. But utter tripe is too much. And I believe that Shroyer's opinions and more especially the entire last issue as edited by that pale lily Hornig (this is not an insult to Hornig whether he thinks so or not) were baloney of the worst order. I cannot recall precisely the things I disliked, but remember Moskowitz's horrible article with a bad taste in my mouth, ~~ how, how, if you don't mind my asking, did that awful thing get in?... Do you realize what that Moskowitz article was? A disconnected, irrational, florid, blowing of words that in the stages of analysis are found to mean nothing at all. ~~ Whoever let the thing in either had a colossal sense of humor or knows nothing whatsoever about writing. I want to resubmit my previous article rejected by you people. My reasons for doing this are entirely selfish inasmuch as they relate to the Michellstic movement. I consider the article an adequate reply to Shroyer and his ilk and I think I am entitled to a chance to vindicate myself before the same audience that Shroyer addressed. Certainly all the readers of your magazine must be interested in fair play." (What say, fair Players—is it or aint it? Bob Tucker the "dead Dictator", 216 E Monroe St. Bloomington/Ill: "Received the sample copy of IMAGINATION yesterday and consider that i have got a dimes worth. Am taking your invitation on page 18 of the July issue to heart and am enclosing a contribution... I enjoyed this issue very much (the second I have over say; — having received a copy from you fellas last Fall sometime), I really like the cover for the neatness and color do much to attract the eye. I believe the contents page on of the best author in fan or professional magazines, I like the double column and paragraphing idea very much, as the other way went to make~up a lot of confusion,. ~~ And I'm still in a sweat wondering whether Pogo Pogo are those islands I mentioned in the last letter or one of your members walking around on two or more feet." (Pogo's no stick!) "I like the Aug, issue better than Charley's" succinctly states CARROLL WYMARK of San Francisco. JACK COBURN, fanmag alias for a well known author. tells us "The new Madge! is most pleasing, though, as usual, the news columns are more interesting than the funny stuff, I like the cover, Kuslan has some good, ideas in his article, though I'm afraid the dream of paying s-f writers 3¢ a word vanished with the halcyon days of 1928, when Clayton, for example, did pay that fairly often, and never went below 2¢. The character-analysis feature is an excellent Idea,.." (Maybe some of you might wonder now & then just what was left out where these dots of omission appear... Sometimes it's something irrelevant. This time there followed the semicolon. "and I was deeply touched by your reference to* ,& then the author proceeded to name himself--so, since we are not at liberty to divulge his identity...) That man Miske again! "Received today was the old faithful for August. Early, but quite welcome. "After that nightmare, that Abyss-spawned creation of last month, well, fellows - and gals, Morojo - I was touched; yessir, touched. It's a pretty good issue, and, of course, compared to the last, it's pennies - or manna, or something - from heaven,