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Fandango, v. 2, issue 1, whole no. 5, Summer 1944
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little increase in interbreeding. At first, due to the novelty as much as anything else, there would be a marked upsurge, which would gradually level off and finally decline to a point about where it is today. You must remember that the better class of negroes are as proud of their race as you are of yours, that there is a large amount of negro public opinion just as strongly against interbreeding as anything you can imagine. Your "Recession" has little bearing on the case. You withdraw certain of your remarks on interbreeding, not because you have decided to look at these matters scientifically, but simply because you have found out that the miscegenation which worries you so is not as likely to take place as you had feared. The most obvious difference between negroes and whites lies in a matter of inherited pigmentation. The most obvious difference between red-headed whites and brunette and blond whites is also a matter of inherited pigmentation. Would you care to join my new campaign to segregate all red-heads into ghettoes of their own, so that they will not contaminate our sacred selves with their loathsome presence? Oh, I forgot. What color is your hair, chum? WALT'S WRAMBLINGS. Alter-hobbies? I am a hobbyist from way back. In 1933 I commenced collecting postage stamps, and rode this hobby full blast until 1936, when I sold my collection—which by then had reached gigantic proportions. I still collect revenue and telegraph stamps, and find much pleasure in so-called poster stamps (reklamemarken). At the same time I.collected coins, paper money, and sundry other corruption. At the age of 10 or 11, I commenced a museum, which continued until I was 14 or 15; it ran strongest to mineralogical exhibits (my Dad was a geologist) and Indian relics. From 1926 until about 1930 I rode entomology quite hard. I've been reading and collecting books since I was 9 or 10 years old; though of course I've made and disposed of many collections as my tastes changed. I was late in getting interested in women; did not start chasing around much until I was 20— but the past decade has seen my album of memories crammed with many lovely pressed rosebuds. 1935 saw me start collecting phonograph records; at first I collected everything and anything, but I now limit myself to hot jazz plus a limited amount of swing. About 500 records at the moment, I suppose. Another of my big hobbies is woodworking, carpentry, etc. I also like to prowl in second hand stores and junk shops, whether actively collecting or not. HORIZONS. Your page 3 remarks on Degler are a bit wishy-washy, aren't they?.... I'm glad to find someone else who is unawed by Campbell. As far as I'm concerned, ASF is gone. It is just as stereotyped, just as pulpukey, as Amazing; though of course in a different way. Street and Smith needs a new editor badly. CELEPHAIS, It is regrettable that the genius who conceived the air-tight packing for this magazine did not have the foresight to send along instructions for opening it. The Clark Ashton Smith reprint is marvellous, though, and well worth the half-hour fight it took to get the mag torn a»art. (By the way, how many FAPAns have untorn copies of Celephais??) One of the best in the mailing. BLITHERINGS. I originally intended to tear this apart in my well-known nasty manner, and then ask Chan if he felt at home! However, I shall content myself with a raised eyebrow at The Next Step (good stuff, but practically unfeasible from a realistic point of view), a burst of applause for the pro-labor attitude, and a disgusted grimace — 13 —
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little increase in interbreeding. At first, due to the novelty as much as anything else, there would be a marked upsurge, which would gradually level off and finally decline to a point about where it is today. You must remember that the better class of negroes are as proud of their race as you are of yours, that there is a large amount of negro public opinion just as strongly against interbreeding as anything you can imagine. Your "Recession" has little bearing on the case. You withdraw certain of your remarks on interbreeding, not because you have decided to look at these matters scientifically, but simply because you have found out that the miscegenation which worries you so is not as likely to take place as you had feared. The most obvious difference between negroes and whites lies in a matter of inherited pigmentation. The most obvious difference between red-headed whites and brunette and blond whites is also a matter of inherited pigmentation. Would you care to join my new campaign to segregate all red-heads into ghettoes of their own, so that they will not contaminate our sacred selves with their loathsome presence? Oh, I forgot. What color is your hair, chum? WALT'S WRAMBLINGS. Alter-hobbies? I am a hobbyist from way back. In 1933 I commenced collecting postage stamps, and rode this hobby full blast until 1936, when I sold my collection—which by then had reached gigantic proportions. I still collect revenue and telegraph stamps, and find much pleasure in so-called poster stamps (reklamemarken). At the same time I.collected coins, paper money, and sundry other corruption. At the age of 10 or 11, I commenced a museum, which continued until I was 14 or 15; it ran strongest to mineralogical exhibits (my Dad was a geologist) and Indian relics. From 1926 until about 1930 I rode entomology quite hard. I've been reading and collecting books since I was 9 or 10 years old; though of course I've made and disposed of many collections as my tastes changed. I was late in getting interested in women; did not start chasing around much until I was 20— but the past decade has seen my album of memories crammed with many lovely pressed rosebuds. 1935 saw me start collecting phonograph records; at first I collected everything and anything, but I now limit myself to hot jazz plus a limited amount of swing. About 500 records at the moment, I suppose. Another of my big hobbies is woodworking, carpentry, etc. I also like to prowl in second hand stores and junk shops, whether actively collecting or not. HORIZONS. Your page 3 remarks on Degler are a bit wishy-washy, aren't they?.... I'm glad to find someone else who is unawed by Campbell. As far as I'm concerned, ASF is gone. It is just as stereotyped, just as pulpukey, as Amazing; though of course in a different way. Street and Smith needs a new editor badly. CELEPHAIS, It is regrettable that the genius who conceived the air-tight packing for this magazine did not have the foresight to send along instructions for opening it. The Clark Ashton Smith reprint is marvellous, though, and well worth the half-hour fight it took to get the mag torn a»art. (By the way, how many FAPAns have untorn copies of Celephais??) One of the best in the mailing. BLITHERINGS. I originally intended to tear this apart in my well-known nasty manner, and then ask Chan if he felt at home! However, I shall content myself with a raised eyebrow at The Next Step (good stuff, but practically unfeasible from a realistic point of view), a burst of applause for the pro-labor attitude, and a disgusted grimace — 13 —
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