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Fantasite, v. 2, issue 2, May-June 1942
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12 THE FANTASITE EXCLUSION ACT-----#2!! By Forrest J Ackerman FOREWORD: U will call this untimely; granted, it is. But am I to blame if for 2 yrs it has been suprest? When I read the feature "Hellfire", I nue that here at last was a publisher with the fortitude of a Fortean, who woud dare defy the #2 Face Himself & release my message, so matter how personly displeasing to Pong. So, gentlemen, to Part I of my expose, revived from a draft of the article submitted to LeZ lo! merely 20 mos. ago. And it may be that its duplication now is not so untimely afterall--in fact, it may be considered very timely--for Fantasy Fiction Field's CHICON REVIEW is skeded to "Hit the stands soon", as I prepare this preface. Once again the Chicon looms large in fandom's mind... God, guys, we've got it with us again. The deed we dreaded but assured ourselves coud not hapn again, the thing we feared for 14 mos., reocurd. The dark side of history repeated itself at "Chicago in 1940",,, I don't expect this article to see the lite of day in Tucker's fanmag; not he being one of the new UnHoly Trio (& I do mean U, Reinsberg and Korshak) but I issue this as a challenge! Print this if U dare, refute it if U can! (But I noe you don't, U noe you coudn't.) What is all this? Y is it U haven't heard anywhere else of the Chiconviction Act that ousted a fan bfor he got in the Convention Hall? Because, one & all of those who attended, in common consent agreed (in their consternation at the condemnable conduct of Reinsberg. Korshak & Tucker) to keep this thing quiet! But they can't shut me up! I cannot stand by silent, I will not be stilled, my voice shall be heard! If not here, then in the Voice of the Imagi-nation. There is no covering up this heinous crime. I noe. I was there, one the spot. I WAS THE GUY THAT GOT EXCLUDED! And don't tell me that I ain't a fan or I "excluded" myself. Fellow fans! All articles bearing my name or pseudo-names, appearing elsewhere & praising the 1940 Convention, are frauds, fakes & forgerys. Their perpetrators (& their names are noen to me) will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. I ask U to consider: After coming clear from California they woudnt let me in the Hotel McCaughan! Reinsberg, Korshak and Tucker woudnt even speak me, see me. The Mgr of the McCaughan (a hireling of the Tyrant 3) had the bald-faced effrontery to tell me he had never heard of the gentleman & no Stf Convention was being held there! Gentlemen, pah! I consign my correspondence from them to the flames. I tear their mangy fanmags to confetti, I revile their nauseating names. ----- Enuf fooling. Anybody who read my autobiog in the Chicon Stardust or noes much about me must noe I love to kid. & in this case it's retribution. I shoudntve hookt Earl and Marky in on it, as they were Prince of Good Fellows to me all the time I was in Chicago; but that guy Tucker, about the 2nd thing after I met him, he sez to me, "Say, I gotta bone to pick with you on that MONSTERS OF THE MOON set-up." & sez it serious like, so that I get genuinely concerned. "Yeah," he continues, "there was one paragraph, I think, out of the whole explanatory page, where you didn't mention my name at least twice!" Well, guys and gals, I guess I've stalled long enuf on getting underway with this article. Tucky airmails me, saying "There is goint to be a mess of Chicon articles floating about in fanmags this coming winter...and a good portion of that mess (meaning quantity not quality) will be yours. So LeZ
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12 THE FANTASITE EXCLUSION ACT-----#2!! By Forrest J Ackerman FOREWORD: U will call this untimely; granted, it is. But am I to blame if for 2 yrs it has been suprest? When I read the feature "Hellfire", I nue that here at last was a publisher with the fortitude of a Fortean, who woud dare defy the #2 Face Himself & release my message, so matter how personly displeasing to Pong. So, gentlemen, to Part I of my expose, revived from a draft of the article submitted to LeZ lo! merely 20 mos. ago. And it may be that its duplication now is not so untimely afterall--in fact, it may be considered very timely--for Fantasy Fiction Field's CHICON REVIEW is skeded to "Hit the stands soon", as I prepare this preface. Once again the Chicon looms large in fandom's mind... God, guys, we've got it with us again. The deed we dreaded but assured ourselves coud not hapn again, the thing we feared for 14 mos., reocurd. The dark side of history repeated itself at "Chicago in 1940",,, I don't expect this article to see the lite of day in Tucker's fanmag; not he being one of the new UnHoly Trio (& I do mean U, Reinsberg and Korshak) but I issue this as a challenge! Print this if U dare, refute it if U can! (But I noe you don't, U noe you coudn't.) What is all this? Y is it U haven't heard anywhere else of the Chiconviction Act that ousted a fan bfor he got in the Convention Hall? Because, one & all of those who attended, in common consent agreed (in their consternation at the condemnable conduct of Reinsberg. Korshak & Tucker) to keep this thing quiet! But they can't shut me up! I cannot stand by silent, I will not be stilled, my voice shall be heard! If not here, then in the Voice of the Imagi-nation. There is no covering up this heinous crime. I noe. I was there, one the spot. I WAS THE GUY THAT GOT EXCLUDED! And don't tell me that I ain't a fan or I "excluded" myself. Fellow fans! All articles bearing my name or pseudo-names, appearing elsewhere & praising the 1940 Convention, are frauds, fakes & forgerys. Their perpetrators (& their names are noen to me) will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. I ask U to consider: After coming clear from California they woudnt let me in the Hotel McCaughan! Reinsberg, Korshak and Tucker woudnt even speak me, see me. The Mgr of the McCaughan (a hireling of the Tyrant 3) had the bald-faced effrontery to tell me he had never heard of the gentleman & no Stf Convention was being held there! Gentlemen, pah! I consign my correspondence from them to the flames. I tear their mangy fanmags to confetti, I revile their nauseating names. ----- Enuf fooling. Anybody who read my autobiog in the Chicon Stardust or noes much about me must noe I love to kid. & in this case it's retribution. I shoudntve hookt Earl and Marky in on it, as they were Prince of Good Fellows to me all the time I was in Chicago; but that guy Tucker, about the 2nd thing after I met him, he sez to me, "Say, I gotta bone to pick with you on that MONSTERS OF THE MOON set-up." & sez it serious like, so that I get genuinely concerned. "Yeah," he continues, "there was one paragraph, I think, out of the whole explanatory page, where you didn't mention my name at least twice!" Well, guys and gals, I guess I've stalled long enuf on getting underway with this article. Tucky airmails me, saying "There is goint to be a mess of Chicon articles floating about in fanmags this coming winter...and a good portion of that mess (meaning quantity not quality) will be yours. So LeZ
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