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Southern Star, v. 1, issue 3, August 1941
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From the Passenger Lounge SOUTHERN STAR Page 38 WE AGREE ABOUT SPACE SHIPS, IF THE LATTER ARE WELL-DONE. YOUR LETTER HAS, lN FACT, INSPIRED THE TRILOGY BY JENKINS TO BE FEATURED IN COMING ISSUES. WE VERY MUCH HOPE YOU LIKE THEN, THERON, AND YOUR COMMENTS WILL BE APPRECIATED. Your second Issue topped your first one by a light year. I actually enjoyed it! Your department heads are much better, your typewriter Is fixed, and the mimeo job is twice as good. Oh, yes, you put three staples in this time, as compared to the last time; and added ten more pages. ...The second cover Is better than the first one, but I think a space ship would be better. I will never get tired of them, even though you do think they are a symbol of triteness in covers. The best single item this issue is Oliver Saari's Rebuttal to Space Ships and Space War. Other very good departments were The Telecaster, From The N. Y. Communications Office, From The Starport (excellent), and the Munsey Panorama (just what we need.) That's about all, I guess. —THERON RAINES P. S. That thing on the cover somehow reminded me of Van Vogt's "Black Destroyer". T. W. R. RATINGS VIA THE WARNER ONE TO TEN SYSTEM ARE, MOST EMPHATICALLY, WANTED. 1 BOTTOM, TEN TOPS: THE INTERMEDIARY NUMBERS GRADING AN ARTICLE GOOD, BAD AND INDIFFERENT. Now comes a brief interval of southern star—gazing time. The front cover receives a nine. I'm using the Warner-Youd system. Say, that's what you wanted! Isn't it? (But definitely! JG)). Editorial gets a seven. Yngvi is not a louse absorbs a six. Panurge pounces upon a nine. The same for Chauvenet. Fischer fishes up an eight point five. Milty minces upon an eight point eight. The Telecaster takes a ten minus three point five as does Tillman. The Panurge filler fills a seven polnt two. The poems average a five. Morley munches up on a six while Saari takes a seven point one. The passenger list Iurks upon an eight point nine. The lounging readers rake down an eight. The hack cover gets a six, but I don't get the meaning, if there is any. I do get at the end of this note; so, now I do leave you- --RAJ0CZ THE STAR WILL STAGGER OUT ON TIME FROM NOW ON. AND SAY! THIS LETTER REMINDS US - WATCH FOR OLLIE'S "THE DOOR"; COMING UP SOON IN ASTOUNDING . The Second Issue of the STAR caught me right In the middle of final exam week, furnishing pleasant diversion from some very boresome studying. Very pleasant. "Munsey Panorama" by this fellow Panurge tops the issue. Reminds me of a strip-tease — reveals just enough about those old stories to make one slobber to read them. If somebody doesn't reprint that H. Rider Haggard thing, or if I can't get it in the library, I'm gonna commit Hari-Kari. The rest of the stuff was passable, tapering down to "Yngvi Is Not A Louse*', which, thru—no—fault-of-the-author-but-only-because-of-the-subject-matter -or-lack-of-it, stank. That, of course, is eliminating from consideration a certain item by Saari, which, I now realize, reeked with more smug self-assurance than the theoretical nature of the subject would warrant, ((Being only the guy who wrote the thing, Oliver, your opinion there doesn't count; Besides the readers and I disagree with you strongly. JG)). One gets that way batting formulas around. That was a very good critique of Burroughs' works, I thot. You have a good letter column, also... Your mimeograph job could stand improvement in a few places, but once having been sole typist, stencil-cutter, and mimeographer
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From the Passenger Lounge SOUTHERN STAR Page 38 WE AGREE ABOUT SPACE SHIPS, IF THE LATTER ARE WELL-DONE. YOUR LETTER HAS, lN FACT, INSPIRED THE TRILOGY BY JENKINS TO BE FEATURED IN COMING ISSUES. WE VERY MUCH HOPE YOU LIKE THEN, THERON, AND YOUR COMMENTS WILL BE APPRECIATED. Your second Issue topped your first one by a light year. I actually enjoyed it! Your department heads are much better, your typewriter Is fixed, and the mimeo job is twice as good. Oh, yes, you put three staples in this time, as compared to the last time; and added ten more pages. ...The second cover Is better than the first one, but I think a space ship would be better. I will never get tired of them, even though you do think they are a symbol of triteness in covers. The best single item this issue is Oliver Saari's Rebuttal to Space Ships and Space War. Other very good departments were The Telecaster, From The N. Y. Communications Office, From The Starport (excellent), and the Munsey Panorama (just what we need.) That's about all, I guess. —THERON RAINES P. S. That thing on the cover somehow reminded me of Van Vogt's "Black Destroyer". T. W. R. RATINGS VIA THE WARNER ONE TO TEN SYSTEM ARE, MOST EMPHATICALLY, WANTED. 1 BOTTOM, TEN TOPS: THE INTERMEDIARY NUMBERS GRADING AN ARTICLE GOOD, BAD AND INDIFFERENT. Now comes a brief interval of southern star—gazing time. The front cover receives a nine. I'm using the Warner-Youd system. Say, that's what you wanted! Isn't it? (But definitely! JG)). Editorial gets a seven. Yngvi is not a louse absorbs a six. Panurge pounces upon a nine. The same for Chauvenet. Fischer fishes up an eight point five. Milty minces upon an eight point eight. The Telecaster takes a ten minus three point five as does Tillman. The Panurge filler fills a seven polnt two. The poems average a five. Morley munches up on a six while Saari takes a seven point one. The passenger list Iurks upon an eight point nine. The lounging readers rake down an eight. The hack cover gets a six, but I don't get the meaning, if there is any. I do get at the end of this note; so, now I do leave you- --RAJ0CZ THE STAR WILL STAGGER OUT ON TIME FROM NOW ON. AND SAY! THIS LETTER REMINDS US - WATCH FOR OLLIE'S "THE DOOR"; COMING UP SOON IN ASTOUNDING . The Second Issue of the STAR caught me right In the middle of final exam week, furnishing pleasant diversion from some very boresome studying. Very pleasant. "Munsey Panorama" by this fellow Panurge tops the issue. Reminds me of a strip-tease — reveals just enough about those old stories to make one slobber to read them. If somebody doesn't reprint that H. Rider Haggard thing, or if I can't get it in the library, I'm gonna commit Hari-Kari. The rest of the stuff was passable, tapering down to "Yngvi Is Not A Louse*', which, thru—no—fault-of-the-author-but-only-because-of-the-subject-matter -or-lack-of-it, stank. That, of course, is eliminating from consideration a certain item by Saari, which, I now realize, reeked with more smug self-assurance than the theoretical nature of the subject would warrant, ((Being only the guy who wrote the thing, Oliver, your opinion there doesn't count; Besides the readers and I disagree with you strongly. JG)). One gets that way batting formulas around. That was a very good critique of Burroughs' works, I thot. You have a good letter column, also... Your mimeograph job could stand improvement in a few places, but once having been sole typist, stencil-cutter, and mimeographer
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