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dots 9 fantasy. The results were rather interesting. Only two were mentioned twice; The Lieutenant, and Odd John. EESmith, of all people, had 4 characters listed, while de Camp and a few others could not muster more than two. My list, which is the only one I can remember, ran thus: Johnny Black, Worsel, Odd John, the Lieutenant and Aloyisius[[?]] Caffney. Since then, I would be compelled to add Granny (SLAN), and Joe-Jim. Tom suggested it would be a good subject for a national poll, and I agreed. Start thinking, for you will be asked in the next POLL CAT. We went outside to cool off a bit in the shade of the Swisher pear trees, but the weatherman got a little bit too enthusiastic about helping us with buckets of rain. Back inside, we discussed Harry's story a bit, and reached the verdict that it was a rarity in the pros today. A perfect example of SCIENCE-fiction. We ate. Oink. Some were amused, and some re-amused by a recorded satire on a sad western song, and the still (to me) incredible IONIZATION, a composition played entirely with percussion instruments and a fire siren. I got the funny papers first and studied them carefully,as Tom paced back and forth, waiting. All except Mr&Mrs S, Tom and yohs retired once more to the "reading room" downstairs, and the aforementioned four had quite a gab session. First, the other three tried to talk Widner out of his theory that the "damncapitalists" are in back of the war, but succeeded only in modifying his ideas on the subject. (HGWells -- Pocket History of the World -- has since completed the job) The lady of the house accomplished a lot more on her knitting than on Widner when she tried to convince him that he was like the rest of humanity in that if he had a lot of money he would want more. This finally lead around to Tom wishing he owned the whole earth so he could conduct certain biological experiments about which he was curious. The same old wrangle arose, circled, and died when sterilization of the unfit was brought up, but the idea of transposition of a brain to another body, brought up interesting discussion, concerningthe probability of whether the transplanted brain would like the same foods as before, or whether he would be governed by the new body. Then it was 11:30, and we departed. I was soaked thru twice (I dried out once) on the way home, but I would dood[[?]] it again anytime the temperature remains above 60[[degree symbol]]F, and below 100. For yhos, Stranger Club meetings do for his mind, what strawberry shortcake does for his tongue and stomach. LOUIS RUSSELL CHAUVENET returned to this neck of the woods in time to accompany yhos to the July 19th meeting. We were quite astounded to find John W Campbell Jr & family present, and were further astounded and delighted to learn that L. Ron Hubbard and wife were coming later. Lazar arrived shortly, and then the Hubbards. It was their first attendance at a fan meeting. Ron is a very friendly chap, with lots of flaming red hair, and a huge, disarming grin. In his uniform of a naval lieutenant it was hard to tell whether he was late twenty, or early thirty, and I never got around to asking,for with Campbell also present, the conversation flew thick and fast, & I was hard put to follow at times. let alone spoiling things with
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dots 9 fantasy. The results were rather interesting. Only two were mentioned twice; The Lieutenant, and Odd John. EESmith, of all people, had 4 characters listed, while de Camp and a few others could not muster more than two. My list, which is the only one I can remember, ran thus: Johnny Black, Worsel, Odd John, the Lieutenant and Aloyisius[[?]] Caffney. Since then, I would be compelled to add Granny (SLAN), and Joe-Jim. Tom suggested it would be a good subject for a national poll, and I agreed. Start thinking, for you will be asked in the next POLL CAT. We went outside to cool off a bit in the shade of the Swisher pear trees, but the weatherman got a little bit too enthusiastic about helping us with buckets of rain. Back inside, we discussed Harry's story a bit, and reached the verdict that it was a rarity in the pros today. A perfect example of SCIENCE-fiction. We ate. Oink. Some were amused, and some re-amused by a recorded satire on a sad western song, and the still (to me) incredible IONIZATION, a composition played entirely with percussion instruments and a fire siren. I got the funny papers first and studied them carefully,as Tom paced back and forth, waiting. All except Mr&Mrs S, Tom and yohs retired once more to the "reading room" downstairs, and the aforementioned four had quite a gab session. First, the other three tried to talk Widner out of his theory that the "damncapitalists" are in back of the war, but succeeded only in modifying his ideas on the subject. (HGWells -- Pocket History of the World -- has since completed the job) The lady of the house accomplished a lot more on her knitting than on Widner when she tried to convince him that he was like the rest of humanity in that if he had a lot of money he would want more. This finally lead around to Tom wishing he owned the whole earth so he could conduct certain biological experiments about which he was curious. The same old wrangle arose, circled, and died when sterilization of the unfit was brought up, but the idea of transposition of a brain to another body, brought up interesting discussion, concerningthe probability of whether the transplanted brain would like the same foods as before, or whether he would be governed by the new body. Then it was 11:30, and we departed. I was soaked thru twice (I dried out once) on the way home, but I would dood[[?]] it again anytime the temperature remains above 60[[degree symbol]]F, and below 100. For yhos, Stranger Club meetings do for his mind, what strawberry shortcake does for his tongue and stomach. LOUIS RUSSELL CHAUVENET returned to this neck of the woods in time to accompany yhos to the July 19th meeting. We were quite astounded to find John W Campbell Jr & family present, and were further astounded and delighted to learn that L. Ron Hubbard and wife were coming later. Lazar arrived shortly, and then the Hubbards. It was their first attendance at a fan meeting. Ron is a very friendly chap, with lots of flaming red hair, and a huge, disarming grin. In his uniform of a naval lieutenant it was hard to tell whether he was late twenty, or early thirty, and I never got around to asking,for with Campbell also present, the conversation flew thick and fast, & I was hard put to follow at times. let alone spoiling things with
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