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Vol 1 TAKE-OFF No 1 TAKE-OFF is a Fantasy Amateur Press presentation of Raymond Washington, Jr., of 117 Hamilton Street, Live Oak, Florida. 10c to outsiders if copies are available. This ia an amateur magazine financed and sponsored by Larry Shaw, to whom we are grateful for duplicating this material, and, indeed, naming the zine. Larry is our Agnel, Co-Editor, and mimographer all in one, but can not be held responsible for anything appearing in these pages, and the association of his name with ours in this endeavor does not neccessarily constitute an endorsement of our product, nor does it necesserily reflect his opinions. We will trade letters of comment on your FAPA publication should your care to do so. An independent, non-political, whimsical periodical, published when possible, accepting take-offs like the once inside. The Editorial Office is listed above. This is a Dixie Press Publication! RAYM RECOLLECTIONS One morning in the early part of 1942 I recevied a nickle subscription to Scientifun, and a short note, from a stanger in Fountain, Colorado. His name was LeRoy Tackett, and he was a science fiction fan. A correspondence developed. (LeRoy made me feel badly by always enclosing a stamped, self-addressed envelope so that he would be sure of a reply.) We became friends immediately. Corresponding with him was interesting and pleasant. His style was reminiscent of the Conway person who was famous at that time for his abrubt, short sentences interspersed with "yeah". One letter of his, which was extremely funny to me at the time, I mentioned in Sci 2; in the third issue, LeRoy was Guest Editor and "Angel", supplying five dollars and, at my request, a "Guest Editorial" telling fandom about himself. I revised this and looking over the details of his life, I was struck with the similarity to his character, Egbert Fann, whom he wrote of in Sci2. Tackett's work was popular, and Tackett was popular. By now he was receiving the leading fanzines, ordering Esperanto books from Morojo, and having letters published in Vom--settling down to a productive fan career. This happy state of affairs was interrupted upon his enlistment in the Marine Corps. He had written a number of letters to the pro science fiction magazines, first, and they continued to appear for months after his enlistment. The Marine Corps works fast. Tackett was overseas within a very few months. His letters, although sporadic, kept coming at various intervals, containing, among other items, requests for fan correspondents. Eventually I was snowed under by an incredible barrage of mail from LezRoy, somewhere in the Pacific. Sometimes his letters talked of Fortean dramas and legends he dug up from books or local habitantsl he mentioned the unusual celestial display visible from where he was; and once when I kidden him about smooth coral sands and swaying native beauties in grass skirts, he gave me a short sketch of his immediate environment, which included jungle, sweating Marines, and burning garbage, which was not nearly so romantic as was my word picture. Came a pause in LeRoy's flow of letters, and then, on February 23, I received a rather soiled-looking V-Mail letter from him. Said LeRoy;
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Vol 1 TAKE-OFF No 1 TAKE-OFF is a Fantasy Amateur Press presentation of Raymond Washington, Jr., of 117 Hamilton Street, Live Oak, Florida. 10c to outsiders if copies are available. This ia an amateur magazine financed and sponsored by Larry Shaw, to whom we are grateful for duplicating this material, and, indeed, naming the zine. Larry is our Agnel, Co-Editor, and mimographer all in one, but can not be held responsible for anything appearing in these pages, and the association of his name with ours in this endeavor does not neccessarily constitute an endorsement of our product, nor does it necesserily reflect his opinions. We will trade letters of comment on your FAPA publication should your care to do so. An independent, non-political, whimsical periodical, published when possible, accepting take-offs like the once inside. The Editorial Office is listed above. This is a Dixie Press Publication! RAYM RECOLLECTIONS One morning in the early part of 1942 I recevied a nickle subscription to Scientifun, and a short note, from a stanger in Fountain, Colorado. His name was LeRoy Tackett, and he was a science fiction fan. A correspondence developed. (LeRoy made me feel badly by always enclosing a stamped, self-addressed envelope so that he would be sure of a reply.) We became friends immediately. Corresponding with him was interesting and pleasant. His style was reminiscent of the Conway person who was famous at that time for his abrubt, short sentences interspersed with "yeah". One letter of his, which was extremely funny to me at the time, I mentioned in Sci 2; in the third issue, LeRoy was Guest Editor and "Angel", supplying five dollars and, at my request, a "Guest Editorial" telling fandom about himself. I revised this and looking over the details of his life, I was struck with the similarity to his character, Egbert Fann, whom he wrote of in Sci2. Tackett's work was popular, and Tackett was popular. By now he was receiving the leading fanzines, ordering Esperanto books from Morojo, and having letters published in Vom--settling down to a productive fan career. This happy state of affairs was interrupted upon his enlistment in the Marine Corps. He had written a number of letters to the pro science fiction magazines, first, and they continued to appear for months after his enlistment. The Marine Corps works fast. Tackett was overseas within a very few months. His letters, although sporadic, kept coming at various intervals, containing, among other items, requests for fan correspondents. Eventually I was snowed under by an incredible barrage of mail from LezRoy, somewhere in the Pacific. Sometimes his letters talked of Fortean dramas and legends he dug up from books or local habitantsl he mentioned the unusual celestial display visible from where he was; and once when I kidden him about smooth coral sands and swaying native beauties in grass skirts, he gave me a short sketch of his immediate environment, which included jungle, sweating Marines, and burning garbage, which was not nearly so romantic as was my word picture. Came a pause in LeRoy's flow of letters, and then, on February 23, I received a rather soiled-looking V-Mail letter from him. Said LeRoy;
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