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8 dots ON MAY 29TH, a special meeting was held to greet E E Evans, who came to Hartford on his vacation from Battle Creek, Michigan, and made a special trip up to get acquainted with the Boston gang. For one reason or another, the majority of the club couldn't get there, but Chan Davis, Tex Mangelsdorf, Suddsy Schwartz,and Art Widner did, and an enjoyable evening was passed. In fact it passed so quickly that Art and Suddsy missed the last subway when they reached Boston about 1:45, and were forced to take to the tortuous ways of the surface cars. EEE had brought along advance copies of NOVA,(of which he is associate editor) and it was much admired and discussed during the evening. The next day, 3e kept a date with Suddsy and Art to view FANTASIA, which had returned to Boston at popular prices. Due to the holiday the show didn't open until two hours later than usual, so we sat around on the shady common and talked over the NFFF, and its future, until pic time. FANTASIA itself was both wonderful and disappointing. We had all seen it before, and the butchering it had undergone displeased us somewhat. However, it is still a truly beautiful work of art in sight and sound, and we advise you not to miss it if you can locally. The Toccata[[?]] and Fugue by Bach were cut out, as were many of the Deems Taylor's interesting betweenumbers comments. Gone too, is the graceful Water Ballet from The Nutcracker Suite and certain scenes from Beethoven's Pastoral, notably the love scene between the lonely centaur and centaurette. Probably other things are cut or shortened that I can't remember, but it's still worth an hour and a half of anybody's time. The Evans who scheduled to come to Arnold St for dinner, and meet the Mrs, and also John Bell for an afternoon of fan-gabbing. Unfortunately, wartime train schedules put the damper on this, & after coming to Quincy he found he could only stay an hour. But we made the most of it, and will be looking forward to the day when the #1 Michifan can drop around this way again. * * * IN SPITE OF THE HEAT, the three bikers (careful with that"b" Mr. Printer!) of the Stranger Club, sweated up Swisher Hill to the June 14th meeting. Blest with the absence of a head wind--and maybe even helped a teensy weensy bit with a very slight tail wind - Widner pared a generous hunk from his previous record, and even threatened Chauvenet by doing the 20 miles in 1 hr, 20 mins. But ah! - the bliss of a cold shower and the fact that three other hardy souls had come . . . Tom Gardner, Suddsy Schwartz,and a newcomer, John Vazakas from Boston. John attended the BOSKONE last Feb, but had been unable to attend meetings because worked on Sundays. A general reading period started things off, with John happily immersed in Lovecraft's OUTSIDERS& OTHERS, Karpy[[?]] engaged in the self-appointed task of reading tall the Astoundings ever printed, and yhos digging into Harry Stubbs' debut in Astounding - PROOF, printed under his pseudonym of Hal Clement. It's convenient,and a rather pleasurable feeling to be able to sit beside the author of a story you are reading and ask him questions as you go along . . . Then Tom got the bright idea of having those present writing down the names of their five favorite story characters in stf &or
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8 dots ON MAY 29TH, a special meeting was held to greet E E Evans, who came to Hartford on his vacation from Battle Creek, Michigan, and made a special trip up to get acquainted with the Boston gang. For one reason or another, the majority of the club couldn't get there, but Chan Davis, Tex Mangelsdorf, Suddsy Schwartz,and Art Widner did, and an enjoyable evening was passed. In fact it passed so quickly that Art and Suddsy missed the last subway when they reached Boston about 1:45, and were forced to take to the tortuous ways of the surface cars. EEE had brought along advance copies of NOVA,(of which he is associate editor) and it was much admired and discussed during the evening. The next day, 3e kept a date with Suddsy and Art to view FANTASIA, which had returned to Boston at popular prices. Due to the holiday the show didn't open until two hours later than usual, so we sat around on the shady common and talked over the NFFF, and its future, until pic time. FANTASIA itself was both wonderful and disappointing. We had all seen it before, and the butchering it had undergone displeased us somewhat. However, it is still a truly beautiful work of art in sight and sound, and we advise you not to miss it if you can locally. The Toccata[[?]] and Fugue by Bach were cut out, as were many of the Deems Taylor's interesting betweenumbers comments. Gone too, is the graceful Water Ballet from The Nutcracker Suite and certain scenes from Beethoven's Pastoral, notably the love scene between the lonely centaur and centaurette. Probably other things are cut or shortened that I can't remember, but it's still worth an hour and a half of anybody's time. The Evans who scheduled to come to Arnold St for dinner, and meet the Mrs, and also John Bell for an afternoon of fan-gabbing. Unfortunately, wartime train schedules put the damper on this, & after coming to Quincy he found he could only stay an hour. But we made the most of it, and will be looking forward to the day when the #1 Michifan can drop around this way again. * * * IN SPITE OF THE HEAT, the three bikers (careful with that"b" Mr. Printer!) of the Stranger Club, sweated up Swisher Hill to the June 14th meeting. Blest with the absence of a head wind--and maybe even helped a teensy weensy bit with a very slight tail wind - Widner pared a generous hunk from his previous record, and even threatened Chauvenet by doing the 20 miles in 1 hr, 20 mins. But ah! - the bliss of a cold shower and the fact that three other hardy souls had come . . . Tom Gardner, Suddsy Schwartz,and a newcomer, John Vazakas from Boston. John attended the BOSKONE last Feb, but had been unable to attend meetings because worked on Sundays. A general reading period started things off, with John happily immersed in Lovecraft's OUTSIDERS& OTHERS, Karpy[[?]] engaged in the self-appointed task of reading tall the Astoundings ever printed, and yhos digging into Harry Stubbs' debut in Astounding - PROOF, printed under his pseudonym of Hal Clement. It's convenient,and a rather pleasurable feeling to be able to sit beside the author of a story you are reading and ask him questions as you go along . . . Then Tom got the bright idea of having those present writing down the names of their five favorite story characters in stf &or
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