1938
Harry Turner of the MIS and Marion Eadie of the JAA were swapping back issues of their respective journals; as the MIS was mainly interested in space travel, Miss Eadie recommended the articles by Arthur Clarke as of most potential interest.
Novae Terrae Vol. 2 No. 8 January 1938
SFA Report: Listed among new members are E.S. Needham and D. Webster / Arrangements in hand for "second sf conference" in London on 10 April 1938. / Branch reports from Leeds, Los Angeles and London.
Mr Youd Replies (to ACC's Nov crit on CSY's remarks on the science content in fantasy) with further comment from Arthur.
DRSmith: The Drift Away from Scientific Fiction "The association of scientific fiction with the loftier ideals of sociologists is a fantasy for which we may blame the many creators of Utopias whose books have been ruthlessly conscripted to swell the scanty numbers of scientific romance."
Donald A. Wollheim: a commentary on the Nov issue and a statement supporting Michelism.
Ted Carnell: Review of Feb 38 Astounding, with mention of a letter from S. Youd in Brass Tacks.
Novae Terrae Vol. 2 No. 9 March 1938 Cover Harry Turner.
SFA Executive Report from HQ 20 Hollins Pk Rd, Leeds.
"On 3 January 1937 the SFA came into being. It was first proposed that London area members - including most of Britain's leading fans - should assume control, but the objection was raised that there was no local group to link them, and the organising of such a group would take some time. The Executive Committee was therefore chosen from members of the Leeds group, this choice being later confirmed by the Council.
In October 1937 the London Branch came into being... Containing four of the 7 members of the Council and 15 other members (in contrast to Leeds 9) it was natural to suggest that control of the society should pass to London. Further, the association has grown so rapidly that executive work has assumed such proportions that it cannot be carried out completely by the Leeds Branch.
Accordingly, Mr Mayer proposed to the Council 'that the HQ of the SFA be moved from Leeds to London, the new Executive Committee consisting of Ken G. Chapman as Gen.Exec.Sec., and Eric C. Williams and Sid Birchby as Assist.Exec.Secs.' The proposal has been unanimously passed by the Council and the following are the arrangements for the change-over, which should be noted carefully. Until the day of the Convention, 10 April 1938, the society will be run as at present from Leeds. After the convention the new HQ will be 59A Tremaine Road, Anerley, London SE20... Mr Carnell will continue as Treasurer and Mr Hanson as Editor of Novae Terrae. All other Association publications - with the exception of the SF Gazette - will be issued as at present from Leeds.
LEEDS Branch: Jan 29 DWFMayer gives lantern lecture "Can we reach the Moon?"... Feb 12 Frank Dobby elected Librarian of Branch... Visitors Ken Chapman & Maurice Hanson expected March 20th.
LONDON Branch: Feb 13 meeting... Wally Gillings reading Lovecraft's Colour Out of Space... "His audience sat enthralled, then interested, then passive, then replete, then a little fidgety. After 1½ hours heroic reading without a stop Mr Gillings drew his story to a finish. Grunts and deep sighs sounded from about the table, of ecstasy or relief. The big moment then arrived - a programme of sf music offered by Arthur Clarke. Several faces became stonily resigned as the handle was wound, and as the first notes of Things To Come thundered out, eyes wandered to papers and magazines. And then as the maddening rhythm of Mossolov's Steel Foundry slammed and roared across the frosty air eyes became expressive once more, but alas, only with amusement and disgust..."
Back page ad for the second convention with list of "distinguished sf personalities" who've promised to attend, etc.
Tomorrow Vol. 2 No. 1 - Spring 1938, page 7, Rocketry News:
MANCHESTER INTERPLANETARY SOCIETY
THE fifth issue of The Astronaut, the official journal of the Manchester Interplanetary Society, appeared at the beginning of March, it being the, first publication of the society to be issued in printed form. Its principal content was an article by P. E. Cleator, entitled "The Rocket Ban," which strongly condemned legal restrictions against practical astronautical experiments in this country. The journal will he followed by other issues at frequent intervals. In addition, the society commenced in April the publication of a small, mimeographed Bulletin.
The society is at present considering affiliation with the British Interplanetary Society. Affiliation would enable members of either society to receive publications of both.
The society is shortly expecting a visit from the German rocket expert, Dr. Steinitz. An article by Dr. Steinitz on rotating space-ships appeared in Armchair Science for March. Dr. Otto Steinitz. M. Esnault-Pelterie. and G. Edward Pendray were recently welcomed as Honorary Members.
Letter April 18: ref to "my visit to London last week" when Arthur mentioned the astronautical section in Urania. [Journal of the Junior Astronomical Association, edited by Marion Eadie in Glasgow]
Novae Terrae Vol. 2 No. 10 April 1938 Cover Harry Turner - Lunar Rescue.
Bill Temple: The British Fan in his Natural Haunt No.1 Eric C. Williams. Mainly details his book collection.
Albert Griffiths: Religion & Science-Fiction.
Ted Carnell: Personality Parade at the Convention. "Shortly after lunch the eight Leeds fellows arrived, followed by Harry Turner and friend Tozer from Manchester.... It was my first meeting with both Novae Terrae artists, and although I endeavoured to start a cover war similar to Brown v Wesso, I failed owing to strong friendship ties between them. Harry Turner brought some great drawings along, topping his last NT cover, but the look in Frank Dobby's glassy eye at evening's close spelt still greater pics from Leeds..."
DRSmith: Cosmic Case No.2 - Is Humour an anti-cultural influence? Pt 2.
SFA Report: Prof A.M. Low elected President. Convention attended by 43 delegates.
LEEDS Branch: Meeting on March 20th when visitors were Ken Chapman & Maurice Hanson from London, and Harry Turner & Stan Davies from Manchester.
Proposed Manchester Branch: An inaugural meeting to be held on May 22 or thereabouts.
URANIA Journal of the JAA, April 1938
An Astronautical Section officially inaugurated, the members including Eric Burgess of Manchester, Arthur Clarke of London and Edward Druker of Johannesburg.
"An Outline of Astronautics: 1. Obstacles" by A.C. Clarke.
Novae Terrae Vol. 2 No. 11 May 1938 Cover Harry Turner
Bill Temple: The British Fan in his Natural Haunt No.2 - Ted Carnell.
DRSmith: Arise Fans! A reply to Albert Griffiths Ideas & Ideals.
DRSmith: Happy Encounter.
ACClarke: The Fantastic Muse.
Ted Carnell: Revudenews "Best news of all is that Harry Turner has seven interior decorations to his credit... that's what comes of drawing Novae Terrae covers... (TOW 3) The readers column... with a terrfific brickbatting by Comrade Sam Youd."
SFA Report: Tomorrow published.
LEEDS Branch: Visit by Eric Needham on April 24. Clubroom amenities increased by radiogram.
Manchester Branch: Inaugural meeting [22 May 1938] a great successa veritable convention in miniature. The meeting started at 3.30pm with congratulatory message from Gen.Exec. Sec, Ken Chapman, followed by Doug Mayer talking about the evolution of the SFA and the Leeds Branch. M.K. Hanson asked for members cooperation in the SFA appeal on the question of a companion magazine for Thrilling Wonder Stories and raised a lively debate.
When peace was restored Arthur Clarke outlined recent London SFA activities, while Les Johnson and an irrepressible Abe Bloom dwelt on the expansion of the Johnson SF Service. Subsequently there was a scientific argument between Messrs Clarke, Mayer and Hetherington, which rumbled on until the meeting broke up, with interruptions for refreshments, and a display of Harry Turner's artwork. Officials: Sec-Chairman Harry Turner; Treasurer Fred Tozer; Librarian Stan Davies.
Local fans attending: Stan Davies, George Ellis, Philip Hetherington (then a student at Manchester University), Eric Needham, Bill Shelton, Fred Tozer and Harry Turner.
Visiting fans attending: M. Hanson & A.C. Clarke from London; D. Mayer, V. Gillard and A. Miller from Leeds; L. Johnson & A. Bloom from Liverpool.
URANIA Journal of the JAA, May 1938
"An Outline of Astronautics: 2. The Rocket Motor" by A.C. Clarke.
Marion Eadie on visit to London in May, included meeting with A.C.C., who visited the M.I.S. later in the month.
Letter May 30: M. asks about formation of MAA.
FUTURIAN No. 1 June 1938
Report about Newnes about to publish long-projected sf mag, edited by Stanhope Sprigg, about middle of July.
June 1938 Rocket mail film shown at meeting of M.I.S.
Novae Terrae Vol. 2 No. 12 June 1938 Harry Turner cover Figure right, helicopter left, futuristic thorofare.
Ted Carnell: And Still They Come! Exclusive news scoop... Reveals that Newnes will, after all, be publishing an sf mag in mid-July... Astonishing Tales of SF (?) edited by T. Stanhope Sprigg. Ted told in May that no fixed publication date arranged, but that mag will appear at regular intervals.... Passing Show starts another serial by W.J. Passingham World Without Time in 25 June issue.
Eric C. Williams: A Bit of Psychology... "I see no hope of sf ever reflecting any great change, or even the smallest change in the ways of Man while it retains its present form. If we want sf to do something, then it must go up. If we want it to become universal, it must go down. Which shall it be?"
Reviews of two Penguins Bell's Civilisation and Sullivan's Limitations of Science (see notes).
DRSmith: The Future.
Bill Temple: The British Fan in his Natural Haunt No.3 Arthur C. Clarke. (Text in notes)
SFA Report: Leeds Branch clubroom extended by addition of another room acting as office and SFA Publications Dept.... hoped to add third room as reading-room. Branch recently enjoyed a second visit from ESNeedham / John Russell Fear welcomed as new SFA member.
URANIA Journal of the JAA, June 1938
"An Outline of Astronautics: 3. Power" by A.C. Clarke.
"The Great Terrestrial Globe" article by Marion Eadie.
Harry Turner joins JAA Astronautical Section.
July 1938 Article by Harry Turner accepted by Armchair Science. The M.I.S. distributing copies of the Breslau Astronomical Society's journal, so everyone reaching for their German dictionaries. The J.A.A. has a member in Germany, underlining the interconnection of these societies. The Germans are struggling to find funds for publication just like the societies in Britain.
URANIA Journal of the JAA, July 1938
"An Outline of Astronautics: 4. The Space Ships" by A.C. Clarke.
Novae Terrae Vol. 3 No. 1 August 1938 25th Anniversary Issue - 48 pages! Cover by Harry Turner
Bill Temple: The British Fan in his Natural Haunt No 3 - Maurice Hanson (see notes)
DWFMayer: Quo Vadis? "Almost simultaneous publication [last year] of Star Maker, Star-Begotten, and Sugar in the Air. Shortly before April, Campbell took over AstoundingSF;
after nine years of sober survival under T. O'Conor Sloane Amazing Stories was taken over by the Ziff-Davis Group, and Raymond Palmer appointed editor. Then Marvel Stories appeared, and the announcement of Fantasy by Newnes... I think the time has come to ask where sf is going?"
Eric C. Williams: Dream Talk with H.G.
Jack Speer: Why Fandom?
'Momus': Escapism
Bill Temple: Celluloid Resurrection
DRSmith: In the Grand Manner.
Two Announcements: The first of two new features - SCRIPSI - I have written will consist of a few pages set aside for readers to argue among themselves... With this issue NT embarks on a policy of finding out things about SF.... carrying out a kind of mass-observation of the fantasy world. It will snap its fingers at Beachcomber and distribute questionnaire after questionnaire. Turn to p.19 for INVESTIGATION. (See notes).
News Review: SFA April convention had big write-up in August Thrilling Wonder.../ Author EFRussell unexpectedly turned up in the middle of BIS meeting on Sunday 17 July, at the Duke of York's, London. His fund of (commercial) traveller's tales was as inexhaustible as ever... Artist Harry Turner was also present... Midshipman Truax, US Navy and a member of the American Rocket Society, was lecturer at the meeting. He brought along a rocket motor of his own design.... /Bill Temple's story in forthcoming TOW is called The Smile of the Sphinx. Editor Gillings thinks it may cause "a mild riot". Author Temple accordingly retiring to country. / NT cover-artist Harry Turner sent some of his drawings to Fantasy for consideration: editor Sprigg liked them and said he would probably use them if Fantasy continued...
p.40 Council of SFA still worrying over adoption of an emblem, badges and stationery, demanding that at least 60% membership vote needed to push the matter through.
p.42Anticipated that new branches inaugurated in L'pool & Southport within next few weeks
p.43 Quote from Daily Worker (8 August) review of Shaw Desmond's Chaos, chosen by Howard Spring as his best book of the month. The writer regards it as "the most awful drivel, a fantastic account of war upon Britain by an unknown aggressor from another world." / Also mention of new JBPriestley novel The Doomsday Men (Heinemann 7/6d)... "fanatics intent on wiping out the human race by means of the latest discoveries of the physicists".
p.44 Clarke & Temple throwing open their 'den' in the Flat for use as a London clubroom for all SFA members each Thursday evening... 88 Grays Inn Road, entrance a few yards below the junction of Gray's Inn Road and Theobald's Rd, towards Holborn - (look out for the sign over the door 'Foot Clinic'). Meetings informal - bring your own sandwiches, chocolate, booze etc if you wish to feed on the premises...
Poem - Powerhouse - by Eric Needham. (See ESN file).
THE ASTRONAUT / Journal of the Manchester Interplanetary Society / Vol. 2 No. 2
August 1938. 12pp. Includes Hymn to Progress by P.E.Cleator and Story of the Rocket
Aeroplane by Willy Ley (which had to be cut by half-page to fit).
URANIA Journal of the JAA, August 1938
"An Outline of Astronautics: 5. The Path of the Space Ship" by A.C. Clarke.
Letter 4 Aug: MIS in touch with Hans K. Kaiser of Breslau Astronomical Society.
Letter Aug 28: Arthur writing series The Outline of Astronautics for Urania.
Letter Aug 30: ref to second issue of Astronomische Rundschau, 16pp, with 4 pp article by Willy Ley on meteorological rockets.
Sept 5-6th: Travelled up to Glasgow with Fred Tozer, to meet MFE at Empirex. (Train due to arrive in Glasgow Central at 5.54am and returns at 11.40pm!). MFE working Sat morn, but arranges to meet us at fountain outside the Palace of Engineering.
Letter Sep 12: Note to say we arrived back in semi-comatose condition. Later letters mention that day of visit was a record Saturday - bigger crowd than the opening Saturday - there was an accident on the line that interrupted the train service from Bellahouston, hence the rush on evening trains when we were trying to get back to Glasgow. (Got two complimentary tickets for Sir James Jeans' lecture in Edinburgh on 7 October, but no hope of enticing him to Glasgow even if he is JAA Patron.
Ref to Priestley's play I Have Been Here Before (talk of JWDunne, Ouspensky & Maeterlinck).
Novae Terrae Vol. 3 No. 2 September 1938
Maurice's editorial refers to lack of response during past year: threatens to cease
publication.
DRSmith: The Eternal Dispute (Cynical critique of sf as 'Lit')
JFBurke: The New Cycle Needs Brakes ... 'modern' sf is nearly all trash... with more magazines, sf is going downhill... what are we coming to when people start to rave over such over-written, illogical nonsense as Galactic Patrol ?
Frank Edward Arnold: Humour in SF
Gottliffe poem: On a Section of Crazy Paving, uncovered by excavators in 5000AD.
Bill Temple: The British Fan in his Natural Haunt No.5 - Ken G. Chapman.
D.McIlwain: Rationalism Simply Explained. (Later reprinted in Sally).
Review of JBS Haldane's The Inequality of Man (Pelican)
News Review: DWFMayer has two articles accepted by Discovery, one by Scientific American, and the Daily Worker.
JB Priestley's time play, I Have Been Here Before, to be broadcast Sat 8 October.
Serial running in Good Housekeeping - The Hopkins Manuscript by RC Sherriff - is supposedly written in the ruins of Notting Hill in 1952 after the moon has crashed into the Earth and only 700 people are left alive in London. It features the British Lunar society, which from the details, appears to be a take-off of the BIS...
SFA Branch Reports: Welcome guests at Leeds clubroom at 7pm Sunday 21 August, for the inaugural meeting of the Winter session, were Harry Turner, ESN and George Ellis, who had spent the afternoon browsing round the Branch's library, discussing sf, and posing for photographs. Chairman Mayer opened the meeting, Harry Turner recounted the activities of the Manchester Branch, and his own activities as an artist. A film show followed: The Oil Magnate, a Snub Pollard comedy full of Heath Robinson inventions, followed by The Secret of the Loch, featuring Seymour Hicks, in which the Loch Ness monster resembled an overgrown lizard.
Manchester Branch: Meeting on Aug 28 included debate on the NT investigation. Reading of old classic, Gail's Shot Into Infinity, eventually had readers departing in search of throat pastilles to ease over-worked vocal chords. At next meeting on Sep 11 attention concentrated on latest sf, with occasional distracting snores from Harry Turner recovering from an all-night railway journey.
London Branch: Meeting at AOD 18 Sep attended by Les Johnson, L'pool's Prize Pessimist. Showing of Metropolis, ACC in charge of projector, MKH and WFT managing musical accompaniment. Two mishaps: Maurice & Bill ran out of "hurry" music during the prolonged chase scenes - and had villainous inventor chasing heroine to Dead March. In confusion, Temple put reel 5 on gramophone and Basin St Blues in projector. Film ended successfully with nicely-timed Things to Come epilogue and was applauded wildly. Anniversary meeting to be held 23 Oct at 3,30pm.
SFA Exec. Committee report: Congrats to LA Branch on anniversary issue of Imagination, and to L'pool Branch on first issue of Satellite. / Acknowledgement to MIS for The Astronaut and Astronomische Rundschau / The ballot for SFA emblem was poorly supported...
FUTURIAN No. 2 September 1938
John Russell Fearn complains about editors' restrictions responsible for mediocrity of
British sf in magazines. Says don't blame the authors - blame the policy that prevents them
using their ideas. (See notes).
Ted Carnell resigned as Publicity Director of the BIS.
Additions to library include: Capek's Absolute at Large, Phillpots Saurus, W.D.Hubbard's The Thousandth Frog, and Shaw Desmond's Chaos and Ragnarok.
Pohl organises SF Poet's Guild, membership of 12; William S. Sykora labels dozens of leading fans as "stooges of Donald A Wollheim", and carries out a one-man onslaught to drive Michel, Wollheim and Pohl out of sf... Secretary of the Loyal & Benevolent Protective Order of Wollheim Stooges, J.B. Michel states that the group is open to all fans who have ever had occasion to differ with William S. Sykora... New Fandom is sponsored by Sykora and Sam Moskowitz.
URANIA Journal of the JAA, September 1938
"The Rocket and Astronomy" article by Eric Burgess.
Letter Sep 22: Starting on illos for TOW 5. In No.4 Bill Temple has The Smile of the Sphinx in which Arthur meets with a very sticky finish. Missed hearing JBS Haldane at Manchester on Tuesday; arrived late and place crammed to capacity. Hope to return to Glasgow on Sat Oct 15.
SATELLITE Vol. 1 No. 1 October 1938 (Hekto) Edited by John Burke & Dave McIlwain. Official organ of L'pool SFA: f'cap folded in half, 24 pages.
Contains Sam Youd's Dreamer / Dave McIlwain's Rationalist Viewpoint reprinted from NT / Stop Press items include King Kong and Frankenstein going the rounds... Time & the
Conways opens L'pool Playhouse in October, and companion play I Have Been Here Before broadcast by BBC on Sat 8 October...
URANIA Journal of the JAA, October 1938
"Novae Terrae" article by Harry Turner.
"The Rocket and Astronomy (II)" article by Eric Burgess.
Debates And Discussions Corner : Harry Turner accuses light of deceiving us.
Letter 3 October: Ref to Doug Mayer having an article No More Bombs in the Daily Worker, and the Manchester SFA branch visiting London on 22nd October.
Letter 17 Oct: Back home after Glasgow visit to M.F.E. and 2nd visit to Empire Exhibition... train an hour late and greeted by torrential downpour. Found postcard awaiting me from Maurice asking me to rush through cover for NT, typescripts from Wally for TOW illos, and a note from Ken Chapman asking me to speak at next Sunday's SFA meeting! Probably fall back on red shifts in nebular spectra and possible inconstancy of speed of light. / see letter Nov 20 re Hubble stating that results seem to favour concept of a stationary universe. / Also letters in Nature on light speed decrease theory in December.
Invite Marion over in New Year.
Glasgow air defences testing searchlights and guns...
End of October: H.E.T. in London, first visit to The Flat @ 88 Gray's Inn Road.
Letter 3 Nov: London trip went off well: privileged to give the Grays Inn Rd flat the once-over... Together with Eric and George, escorted there by Maurice to find the inmates churning out the latest BIS Bulletin. Vast flights of stairs to be negotiated.
Mention that M/cr club library regularly gets copies of Scientific American, Pop Mechanics, Mechanix Illustrated, Mechanics & Handicraft, & Science & Mechanics, plus Armchair Science.
Doing stencil for MIS Bulletin.
Letter Nov 20: Saw the eclipse when totality was near on bus on way home from evening classes. Top of bus empty so I was able toscurry to various vantage points as the bus travelled round corners. Conductor came up several times during this performance and seemed puzzled at finding me in a different seat each time... Cleator is upsetting Arthur
with his comments on Bulletins in latest issue of Tomorrow.
SATELLITE Vol. 1 No. 2 November 1938 (Hekto - 24pp - 3½d.)
Leslie J. Johnson: All is Dust ! "I despair of mankind..."
Novae Terrae Vol. 3 No. 3 November 1938 Cover by Harry Turner & ACC 'The Conquest of Space' [Done on a visit - check with Midnight series].
SCRIPSI........ From a Proof-Reader - Eric S. Needham, Manchester. "This latest NT is a great improvement on all previous ones, and I can only find three spelling mistakes, five
misprints, two over-spacings and one rare case of missed inverted comma. But on page 11
there are eight dots after Scripsi and on page 17 there are 10. Whose fault is this?"
Bill Temple: The British Fan in his Natural Haunt No.6 - Walter H. Gillings.
Comment on the Panic: The War of the Worlds radio broadcast... [see xerox]
Topical items about HG Wells: This Man is News [see xerox]
It's in the Library: mentions Tomorrow's Yesterday by John Gloag, the story of a film production that features two Time travellers surveying our world and its history. (I recall that I was intrigued by the explotation of typographical facilities). And also The Absolute at Large by Karel Capek in which "somebody releases atomic energy and in the same procedure the God residing in matter. The result: a religious uprising whenever the atomic motors are in operation. War, death, and almost final extinction of the human race bring this satire to a smashing conclusion".
Ted Carnell: Advance review of Startling Stories (first issue) with Weinbaum's The Black Flame.
SFA Branch reports: London - Fans from outlying parts came to swell large attendance at Anniversary Meeting held at the AOD, Lamb's Conduit Street, Sunday 23 October including Doug Mayer & Vic Gillard from Leeds, Harry Turner, ESN & George Ellis from Mcr..." [for details see xerox.] Harry Turner spoke on Expanding Universe., also comment by Ted on me and Wally in art debate on next TOW...
New members include "R.E. Vincent, of Mcr."
News Review mentions Ernest Gabrielson as sponsor of L'pool SFA Branch meetings - The Viador Fellowship - from Oct 21.../ SPACEWAYS is the name of new mag out on Nov 1 (HWJr?) / Ralph Richardson [The Boss of Things to Come] took leading roll in broadcast of JB Priestley's play I Have Been Here Before ... [Refer to book with paste-up of TTC serial from MEN]
URANIA Journal of the JAA, November 1938
"An Outline of Astronautics: 6. More Orbits" by A.C. Clarke.
"A Visit To Stonyhurst College Observatory" article by Eric Burgess.
Letter 4 December: "While TOW still continues to demand 'adaptable' drawings, it was pleasant news to hear from Stanhope Sprigg that he wants me to do some illustrations for the second issue of Fantasy, due out early next year..." / Volunteer to help out as JAA Treasurer.
M's LTR 5 Dec: comments on NT items incl. ACC in Natural Haunt...
Novae Terrae Vol. 3 No. 4 December 1938 Cover Harry Turner
John Burke: Art & Science Fiction
Eric C. Williams: Idle Chatter in the Vaults (Future researchers in British museum vaults blow the dust off the files of NT)
Frank Arnold: England in American Fantasy
Dave McIlwain: Knowledge Test (Spoof quiz)
THIRTEEN FANS: Sid Birchby, Ken Chapman, Philip Hetherington, H. Lennox, Alec Miller, Dave McIlwain, Doug Mayer, Eric Needham, EF Parker, Mike Rosenblum, DR Smith, Jack Speer, Doug Webster - out of 200 readers - answered the Questionnaire. Summary of views expressed concludes with comment: "These then are the facts that fandom has generously given to the world, facts to be handed down to posterity in awestruck admiration. Those who are sufficiently interested will be able to draw their own conclusions."
SFA Exec. Comm. Report: New members include W.J. Passingham, E.L. Gabrielson, Ron Holmes and N. Weedall.
Acknowledgements include MIS Bulletin and Astronomische Rundschau.
Leeds Branch: Sun Nov17 GoHs were Arthur, Bill, Maurice and Eric Williams.
NEWS Review: All Wells' books banned in Franco's Spain... rumour going round Hollywood that Charlie Chaplin has asked HGWells to write the script of his new film "about a bewildered little Jew who is mistaken for a dictator to whom he bears a
likeness..."
SATELLITE Vol. 1 No. 3 December 1938
MOONSHINE [Readers' Letters]: From Sam Youd - "I had thought the days of spreading the gospel to the ignorant masses were gone, but there seem to be a few sparks left. (Reference to Wilson's call to 'Action' promoting sf). I had already read All is Dust!, but read it again and found it interesting, if unoriginal. If Les wants to know what the world does to idealists I would refer him to Begbie's Black Rent (Part 2, chapter 7)."Round & About: Lot of rumours flying around about Fantasy - definite information that it will not be out again next month... more information that it isn't coming out at all... come on, Mr Sprigg...
Promise that next issue will be duplicated in a large size, new 12-page format. With a frank criticism of Mr Walter Gillings' policy with Tales of Wonder...
URANIA Journal of the JAA, December 1938
"An Outline of Astronautics: 7. Some Fuels" by A.C. Clarke.
Debates And Discussions Corner : Douglas Webster liked H.T.'s suggestion in the previous issue, Edgar Blyth didn't.
Letter from M 12 Dec: Setback to Manchester visit as no cheap excursions from Glasgow.
Letter Dec 18: - ref to Churchward books.
Committee proposed winding up M.I.S. by end of year and continuing as a B.I.S. group - running the M.I.S. taking up too much of their spare time and not enough funds to continue Journal... Decision to be taken at Jan. AGM.
Letter Dec 30: Discovered Glasgow trips resumed from Manchester
Telegrams Dec 31 2.14pm Sunday 8 will suit - Marion
3.18pm Just discovered no Sunday excursions. Writing
Letter Dec 31: Expect you'll be surprised at being deluged with wires from me today, but the Info Bureau tell me the only trip is Friday January 13 |