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VOICE OF THE IMAGI-NATION 9 It seems like a high-velocity elephant emitting a warcry. Mebbe so, mebbe so. "Your mag certainly is the finest in appearance and neatness I have ever seen. The duplicating is really great, and is even superior to Sam Youd's laborious flat du-plicating of some early FANTASTs, which I once thought the best possible. The only fault is, I think, the feebleness of the cartoons" If any lads or lassies your side feel like writing to me, they will all be answered. "P.S. 'Ted Carnell's nostril nat' means a moustache!" (Yegods...& we thot "nostril mat" was Slanglish for "handkerchief! How Anglofans moustache from laffing at our ignorance!) RENNISON, 82 Ramsgreave Dr, Blackburn, Lancs, Eng: "The cover is absolutely superb (Tomaiden). A beautiful and simple drawing well executed and lovely in the simplicity of colouring. Definitely one of the best covers that I've seen for many a long day. The back cover cartoon was also super-swell, well drawn, and humourous (a thing that few cartoons are) (Gifford's). Pity you are going to have to cut the letters, but it can't be helped. It won't give us quality (as VOM has always done that), but it will give us less quantity. AFTER DENVER was excellent. Very well-written, and even more enjoyable to me over here thna it will be to the majority of U.S. fans. Cummon, how about some REAL dope on Tigrina, she is a real mystery. Gallet's photo was jolly good, and I wonder how he is getting on these days. I'll bet he could tell some tales of horror and terror. Ron's letter was in his usually interesting spelling (of which he is more than proud) and in his own inimitable style. All the other letters were as interesting as usual. "Glad to heard that he won't be drafted for some time. Am very happy also, as if he went it would mean the end of VOM (or the spirit of VOM) and that would be a true calamity. To look at his photo though, who would never think that he had mental (whoa, I mean physical) deficiencies. No, he looks a really strong he-man." You can always be sure of my continued interest in VOM, and I will write you a letter on every copy I receive just to prove it." Replying to Renny, GALLET's latest account of himself came to us Par Avion from Marseille dated 27 Aug 41. Commenting on the compliments accorded Yvonne, he stated: "Between you and me, I was quite sure that you would like my wife the minute you saw her. I feel better to know that there is such a large ocean between here and Hollywood. "Regarding ' Les Evades de l'An 4000' I've heard that its filming has been postponed but I am not sure." We were de-lighted with the two photos Forrie sent. Morojo looks charming and Forrie looks like if he were specifically made to make a splendid soldier. Further news of his adventures in the draft are eagerly awaited. I was tickled to death looking at all the scientifiction celebrities which adorn the second photo (Skylark Smith Meeting of LASFS). If anything the L.A.S.F.S. looks nothing but gloomy. -- I do not need Consul here. By the way they will be the first I shall lay my eyes upon since Dunkirk. I was carrying a load stf. mags, in my care during the campaign in Belgium and northern France and used to read them to while time away during the short respites we had between turns to the lines and I have often wondered what the German thought who found them in my kit after I was compelled to abandon everything to get the ships?...." At last we can offer Fortier & autres critics of Foret's francais via 3 Lines of--not Old but Genuine & Fairly Recent--French. To the fore-going Gallettre by mari Georges, Yvonne added "Je ne sais pas 'an-glais. vous essaeirez de deviner. avec les amities," Nous tu re-mercions! "IT'S BEEN GRAND KNOWING YOU....! #2: FRANK J. ARNOLD" By G. Jen Chapman I KNEW and enjoyed Frank Arnold some considerable time before we met! He is, you know, one of those vital, so-much-alive people, and he had conveyed all the ardent dash and sincerity of his personality to me, through the kind services of H.M. Post Office." We had corresponded for several weeks, and the English FJA (Forrie Ackerman don't confuse, please!) had become an enthusiastic member of SFA, whose London Branch were, in those days, meeting informally every Thursday evening in a restaurant in New Oxford Street. I invited Frank to one of these meetings and it was then that we Londoners, as a body, first became acquainted with that enthusiastic, vigorous, ever charming fellow we were to know and respect so well in after years. I have, of course, met Frank many, many times since that day....he has visited my home countless times, we have lunched, tea-ed, suppered and beer-ed together upon innumerable occasions....yet that first impression of his was the most lasting one as far as I am concerned. It left me with an admiration for the man I shall never lose, and I could myself fortunate indeed, to be able to call Frank Arnold my friend! To him, SFA (Science Fiction Assn) owes a very great debt for the success it achieved, for as my Assistant Secretary, and later, after I resigned, as Secretary itself, he always worked unflaggingly and invariably was ready to help and encourage others when things were going wrong. In those last few months, before War thrust its ugly head into every British homestead, when Frank was the kingpin, No. 1 active member of SFA, I was privileged to be his Assistant Secretary (the tables turned around, y'see!). I had ample opportunity to study his vital and vivid methods of propaganda, and I know the schemes he had in mind for SFA's improvement would have astonished stf. fandom had we been given the time to work them out in detail and present them to our members and friends. One day the time will come when his ideas and dreams will become 'facts' .. I hope it is so soon! Frank, although not over endowed with Nature's inches and pounds, makes up any handicap he might otherwise encounter, by his really extraordinary courage! His pluck and vehemence, his stamina and spirit, never fail to amaze a stranger to his ways and when either speech-making, debating or writing, his vitality and punch, quite as much as his very consummate style, give zest and power to his arguments, He is a powerful opponent, but a splendid, loyal ally! He
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VOICE OF THE IMAGI-NATION 9 It seems like a high-velocity elephant emitting a warcry. Mebbe so, mebbe so. "Your mag certainly is the finest in appearance and neatness I have ever seen. The duplicating is really great, and is even superior to Sam Youd's laborious flat du-plicating of some early FANTASTs, which I once thought the best possible. The only fault is, I think, the feebleness of the cartoons" If any lads or lassies your side feel like writing to me, they will all be answered. "P.S. 'Ted Carnell's nostril nat' means a moustache!" (Yegods...& we thot "nostril mat" was Slanglish for "handkerchief! How Anglofans moustache from laffing at our ignorance!) RENNISON, 82 Ramsgreave Dr, Blackburn, Lancs, Eng: "The cover is absolutely superb (Tomaiden). A beautiful and simple drawing well executed and lovely in the simplicity of colouring. Definitely one of the best covers that I've seen for many a long day. The back cover cartoon was also super-swell, well drawn, and humourous (a thing that few cartoons are) (Gifford's). Pity you are going to have to cut the letters, but it can't be helped. It won't give us quality (as VOM has always done that), but it will give us less quantity. AFTER DENVER was excellent. Very well-written, and even more enjoyable to me over here thna it will be to the majority of U.S. fans. Cummon, how about some REAL dope on Tigrina, she is a real mystery. Gallet's photo was jolly good, and I wonder how he is getting on these days. I'll bet he could tell some tales of horror and terror. Ron's letter was in his usually interesting spelling (of which he is more than proud) and in his own inimitable style. All the other letters were as interesting as usual. "Glad to heard that he won't be drafted for some time. Am very happy also, as if he went it would mean the end of VOM (or the spirit of VOM) and that would be a true calamity. To look at his photo though, who would never think that he had mental (whoa, I mean physical) deficiencies. No, he looks a really strong he-man." You can always be sure of my continued interest in VOM, and I will write you a letter on every copy I receive just to prove it." Replying to Renny, GALLET's latest account of himself came to us Par Avion from Marseille dated 27 Aug 41. Commenting on the compliments accorded Yvonne, he stated: "Between you and me, I was quite sure that you would like my wife the minute you saw her. I feel better to know that there is such a large ocean between here and Hollywood. "Regarding ' Les Evades de l'An 4000' I've heard that its filming has been postponed but I am not sure." We were de-lighted with the two photos Forrie sent. Morojo looks charming and Forrie looks like if he were specifically made to make a splendid soldier. Further news of his adventures in the draft are eagerly awaited. I was tickled to death looking at all the scientifiction celebrities which adorn the second photo (Skylark Smith Meeting of LASFS). If anything the L.A.S.F.S. looks nothing but gloomy. -- I do not need Consul here. By the way they will be the first I shall lay my eyes upon since Dunkirk. I was carrying a load stf. mags, in my care during the campaign in Belgium and northern France and used to read them to while time away during the short respites we had between turns to the lines and I have often wondered what the German thought who found them in my kit after I was compelled to abandon everything to get the ships?...." At last we can offer Fortier & autres critics of Foret's francais via 3 Lines of--not Old but Genuine & Fairly Recent--French. To the fore-going Gallettre by mari Georges, Yvonne added "Je ne sais pas 'an-glais. vous essaeirez de deviner. avec les amities," Nous tu re-mercions! "IT'S BEEN GRAND KNOWING YOU....! #2: FRANK J. ARNOLD" By G. Jen Chapman I KNEW and enjoyed Frank Arnold some considerable time before we met! He is, you know, one of those vital, so-much-alive people, and he had conveyed all the ardent dash and sincerity of his personality to me, through the kind services of H.M. Post Office." We had corresponded for several weeks, and the English FJA (Forrie Ackerman don't confuse, please!) had become an enthusiastic member of SFA, whose London Branch were, in those days, meeting informally every Thursday evening in a restaurant in New Oxford Street. I invited Frank to one of these meetings and it was then that we Londoners, as a body, first became acquainted with that enthusiastic, vigorous, ever charming fellow we were to know and respect so well in after years. I have, of course, met Frank many, many times since that day....he has visited my home countless times, we have lunched, tea-ed, suppered and beer-ed together upon innumerable occasions....yet that first impression of his was the most lasting one as far as I am concerned. It left me with an admiration for the man I shall never lose, and I could myself fortunate indeed, to be able to call Frank Arnold my friend! To him, SFA (Science Fiction Assn) owes a very great debt for the success it achieved, for as my Assistant Secretary, and later, after I resigned, as Secretary itself, he always worked unflaggingly and invariably was ready to help and encourage others when things were going wrong. In those last few months, before War thrust its ugly head into every British homestead, when Frank was the kingpin, No. 1 active member of SFA, I was privileged to be his Assistant Secretary (the tables turned around, y'see!). I had ample opportunity to study his vital and vivid methods of propaganda, and I know the schemes he had in mind for SFA's improvement would have astonished stf. fandom had we been given the time to work them out in detail and present them to our members and friends. One day the time will come when his ideas and dreams will become 'facts' .. I hope it is so soon! Frank, although not over endowed with Nature's inches and pounds, makes up any handicap he might otherwise encounter, by his really extraordinary courage! His pluck and vehemence, his stamina and spirit, never fail to amaze a stranger to his ways and when either speech-making, debating or writing, his vitality and punch, quite as much as his very consummate style, give zest and power to his arguments, He is a powerful opponent, but a splendid, loyal ally! He
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