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Southern Star, v. 1, issue 2, June 1941
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From The Passenger Lounge SOUTHERN STAR Page 35 (Continued----------------------) The top o'luck, Yours in Fantasy --WALTER A. CARRITHERS THE BOUNDARIES OF THE DIXIE FANTASY FEDERATION WILL BE SET AT THE COLUMBIA CONFERENCE. Jenkins' cover was OK after you figured it out, but he has a fault like Giunta's of putting too much stuff in a picture so that the main features are obscured. Harry's article was very good, hit an angle previously untouched. Lowndes' poem was not bad, but most of the punch was in the first line or two of each stanza. Fischer's column wasn't quite up to his FD standard. The Trowe Ytt or Nille (wish I hadn't capitalized those words) items were of fair interest, but we can get those things in the daily papers. That'un about the Pleides won't hold in water, anyhow, as the "correct" number of them is many times more than seven. The letter from England was only typical. And the remarks about how wonderful the human body is doesn't add up to anything. Korshak's article interesting on the whole, tho, Korshak being Korshak, the grammar and diction are sometimes rather ghastly. By the way, there's an easy improvement you could make in the STAR: type more carefully, proofread, and use correction fluid. It isn't bad now, but there's room for improvement. I noticed "probably" spelled "probally" several times. Maybe that's the way you pronounce it (I pronounce it "probly", but that's beside the point), but you aren't using the colloquial style of grammar and spelling in general, so "probally" looks like a slip-up. ((It was. JG))> Hanson's message sets forth several things I'm wondering about. Foremost, there's his (Continued-------------------------) listing of the Southern states. It doesn't even include all the members of the Southern Confederacy, including the toughest one of all, Texas, which is as Southern culturally as anything is this side of North Carolina. Hanson omits all the trans-Mississippi area, though this was settled by Southern people and was slave territory (indicating it's geographically as well as -- shall I say ethnologically -- a part of the South), and its fandom is in the same state as that in the eastern South. What I said about Texas applies, to a lesser degree, to my home state ((Oklahoma. JG)), and certainly to Arkansas and to Missouri, too. I'd like to hear more about what is planned for the Dixiecon particularly the where of it. If it were planned for Washington, I think there'd be a very good chance of getting it, baring unforeseens. Boston and Washington were the two places in mind at Chicago for 1942, and with the reverses to Boston in Chauvenet's departure, [[handwriting to left of this sentence]]Plug[[end handwriting]] Singleton's suicide, and the Swisher's blessed event, they have faded somewhat. Perdue will be back here as he now plans. On the other hand, Dick Wilson said he'd like to see the Convention in Miami, and the idea has its attractions. Attendance at Denver may be an important guide to the importance of geography as a factor. Jenkins' story was fair. Fischer's poem mostly good, had some clumsy spots in it. Panurge's Panorama promises Unfortunately too much of the first article in the series was taken up with introductory mutterings. Takes some time to cure oneself of the habit; I still do it in moments of weakness. Hanson's biog interesting; it covers the essentials and tells us the things about him
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From The Passenger Lounge SOUTHERN STAR Page 35 (Continued----------------------) The top o'luck, Yours in Fantasy --WALTER A. CARRITHERS THE BOUNDARIES OF THE DIXIE FANTASY FEDERATION WILL BE SET AT THE COLUMBIA CONFERENCE. Jenkins' cover was OK after you figured it out, but he has a fault like Giunta's of putting too much stuff in a picture so that the main features are obscured. Harry's article was very good, hit an angle previously untouched. Lowndes' poem was not bad, but most of the punch was in the first line or two of each stanza. Fischer's column wasn't quite up to his FD standard. The Trowe Ytt or Nille (wish I hadn't capitalized those words) items were of fair interest, but we can get those things in the daily papers. That'un about the Pleides won't hold in water, anyhow, as the "correct" number of them is many times more than seven. The letter from England was only typical. And the remarks about how wonderful the human body is doesn't add up to anything. Korshak's article interesting on the whole, tho, Korshak being Korshak, the grammar and diction are sometimes rather ghastly. By the way, there's an easy improvement you could make in the STAR: type more carefully, proofread, and use correction fluid. It isn't bad now, but there's room for improvement. I noticed "probably" spelled "probally" several times. Maybe that's the way you pronounce it (I pronounce it "probly", but that's beside the point), but you aren't using the colloquial style of grammar and spelling in general, so "probally" looks like a slip-up. ((It was. JG))> Hanson's message sets forth several things I'm wondering about. Foremost, there's his (Continued-------------------------) listing of the Southern states. It doesn't even include all the members of the Southern Confederacy, including the toughest one of all, Texas, which is as Southern culturally as anything is this side of North Carolina. Hanson omits all the trans-Mississippi area, though this was settled by Southern people and was slave territory (indicating it's geographically as well as -- shall I say ethnologically -- a part of the South), and its fandom is in the same state as that in the eastern South. What I said about Texas applies, to a lesser degree, to my home state ((Oklahoma. JG)), and certainly to Arkansas and to Missouri, too. I'd like to hear more about what is planned for the Dixiecon particularly the where of it. If it were planned for Washington, I think there'd be a very good chance of getting it, baring unforeseens. Boston and Washington were the two places in mind at Chicago for 1942, and with the reverses to Boston in Chauvenet's departure, [[handwriting to left of this sentence]]Plug[[end handwriting]] Singleton's suicide, and the Swisher's blessed event, they have faded somewhat. Perdue will be back here as he now plans. On the other hand, Dick Wilson said he'd like to see the Convention in Miami, and the idea has its attractions. Attendance at Denver may be an important guide to the importance of geography as a factor. Jenkins' story was fair. Fischer's poem mostly good, had some clumsy spots in it. Panurge's Panorama promises Unfortunately too much of the first article in the series was taken up with introductory mutterings. Takes some time to cure oneself of the habit; I still do it in moments of weakness. Hanson's biog interesting; it covers the essentials and tells us the things about him
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