D The letter which probably initials the greatest number of fans'
calling-names: Dale, Don, Dean, Dan, Dave, Dick, Doc, Doug, and others,
most of these being used by more than one stfnist.
DABBLERS (Wollheim) Comics ordinarily mundane which sometimes introduced a
fantastic element into their stories. An obsolete term, now,
because almost all except the household-humor type dabble on occasion, but
before about 1945 this was rare enough to be interesting to fan collectors.
ORDER OF DAGON In 1944 FAPA had become somewhat cumbered with deadwood and
official resistance to change frustrated attempts to get the
latter out by tightening activity requirements, etc. By December 1944 the
Battle Creek-Bloomington-Los Angeles Axis had plans for an anschluss in FAPA
well in hand. The Futurians were to be quashed by a nebulous group, the
Freedom Party, standing for strengthened activity requirements and some
miscellaneous projects which came to nothing. It was to be backed up by a
secret self-perpetuating group known as the Order of Dagon; this started with
the three plotters mentioned above (Ashley, Tucker, and Laney) and included
such folk as Liebscher, Wiedenbeck, Saari, Spencer, Rothman, Croutch, Perdue,
and Ackerman. The Order was to implement the Freedom Party program by bloc
voting and by presenting all FP candidates for office, and successfully swung
its first election. But the anti-Futurian aspect of the move was frustrated
by the Little Interregnum, when the Futurians abdicated their leadership and
withdrew into VAPA.
DDT&T MIMEO Harry Warner's machine, the Doubledoubletoilandtrouble which
produced SPACEWAYS and HORIZONS. It is probably the oldest mimeo
in fandom, with a full generation of loyal service to its credit.
DE PROFUNDIS AD ASTRA "From the depths to the stars", motto of the LASFS.
But it's often found in parody form to suggest their
activities as disgustedly described by the Insurgent Element.
DEA Pename under which Mrs Margaret Dominic does her fanzine illustrations.
Not de!
DEADLINE The time after which no material is accepted for an APA mailing.
Same after which no material is accepted for a given issue of a
fanzine, hahahahaha. Deadlines mean little with fanzines, which almost
invariably come out later than originally scheduled anyway; but in FAPA a
long, and on the whole successful, fight has been waged to get the mailings
out on the dates specified. For some particulars, see Blitzkrieg.
DEADWOOD Members of FAPA or OMPA who join, receive their mailings, and
finally are expelled for lacktivity, having never contributed
anything to the club. (SAPS eliminates this by requiring new members to have
a six-page magazine in the first mailing they receive.) When this plague
abated somewhat the expression came to mean marginals who hung on by
publishing 8 pages of no interest every year.
DECADENCE The condition of society, especially the arts, in a period which
follows the high point of a culture and precedes its complete
breakup. Rome was in such a state for centuries; according to Spengler's
thesis in The Decline of the West, the entire Occidental world shows
the characteristic features. Decadence is of course strongest in the cities;
in the US, in the Eastern cities and Hollywood. The Futurians of New York
were fandom's number one exhibit; but they delighted in decadence, regarding
it as a sign that a new order was on the way to replace the old. (Another
alternative to a gloomy view is DeCamp's belief that modern technology has
made it virtually impossible for the world ever again to slip all the way into
barbarism.)
A decadent period may still produce very worthwhile literature -- a sort
of Silver Age following the Golden -- but is more likely to run to extremes of
technique. Emotional content has branched into two trends, which also apply
to the other arts: (1) technical and abstract, which most people find insipid;
(2) sharp and pungent, seeking for higher emotional feeling. In all fields
there's a striving after something which may provide the basis for a new and
vigorous art to arise. In poetry modern decadence has been marked by vers
libre and such; photography having replaced painting in the visual arts to a
large extent, a new justification for the older medium is sought in
interpretations or abstractions; in music there is a striving for dissonances,
unusual rhythms, and effects. In humor doubleinversion and the New Yorker
sort of detached amusement at everything predominate. Eroticism is strong.
Social customs in our decadence come under the headings of thrill-seeking and
bohemianism.
DECKER DILLIES (More formally the Literature, Science, and Hobbies Club of
Decker, Indiana). Some Mannings, Maurice Paul, and others,
who maintained a startling level of fanac in their small community with their
own clubhouse, files of fanzines, ktp. They published the first fanzine to
feature multicolor mimeo work (previously only hekto had been used for
polychrome stuff) PLUTO, which had as many as five colors at times.
CLAUDE DEGLER was one of the most influential, ghod help us, fans who ever
marched across the Microcosm, and his career deserves to be
chronicled at some length:
Degler had been confined in the Indiana Hospital for the Insane from 1936
to 1937, and released against the advice of the doctors (as Speer learned in
an investigation after the Cosmic Circle fuss had blown over). He attended
the ChiCon I in 1940, and at Denver in 1941 delivered a speech purporting to
have been written by Martians. He appears to have had some activity in the
Indiana Fantasy Association, and a part in publishing a minor fanzine,
INFINITE. At the 1942 MichiConference several attendees got bad impressions
of him, but he was still virtually unknown when he arrived late at the 1943
Boskone [in Boston]. In the meantime, as the above-mentioned investigation
later showed, he had (1942) been forced to leave Newcastle because of illicit
relations with a minor.
After the Boskone he appears to have gotten a 4F classification and spent
a month hitch-hiking thru Dixie, with his mother in Newcastle Indiana sending
money orders to him along the route from funds he had saved. Getting names
and addresses from readers' departments in the proz, he contacted various
stfnists unknown to fandom and, whenever they were willing, constituted each
as a local and state organization, which he hoped would grow. Since Degler
was constantly thinking up organization and conference names, they will not be
treated elsewhere; for example, on this trip he created a Circle of Atzor
(Tennessee), Louisiana Fandom, Alabama All-Fans, Valdosta (Georgia)
Philosophers, and Georgia Cosmen; at the "Live Oak Conference" with Raym
Washington and sister he organized the Cosmic Thinkers (a local), the
statewide Florida Cosmos Society, and a revived Dixie Fan Federation, all with
Raym at the head.
From the South he returned to Indiana, where a bunch of locals were
supposed to exist already. After earning some more money, he departed late in
June for the Schenectacon, and thence visited Boston where he "had a long
talk" with Widner on such subjects as Slan Center. After organizing a few
more groups -- even one in Quebec, the Future Fantasy French -- he returned
alone to New York.
He slept on the floor at Little Jarnevon till some time after Schwartz
and Shaw began telling him to leave, and worked on some Cosmic Circle
publications which were supposed to be angelled by someone in Indiana. In the
Cosmic circle, which was to be a union of all persons everywhere who had a
cosmic outlook, these local and regional organizations Degler had organized
were affiliated with the Planet Fantasy Federation, whose council included Don
Rogers (the pseudonym for Degler used in all his publications of this period),
Raym Washington, and some people around Newcastle. It is claimed that the
movement was tested in Newcastle for years before the missionary work began
(1943 was the Year 4 of the Cosmic Concept) but information from others than
Degler is very vague.
Larry Shaw was at first impressed by Degler's ideas, and against his
wishes was named head of Slan Slum (local) and the Empire State Slans. Degler
took down the names and addresses, past and present, on Fantasy Fiction
Field's subscription list; this made up most of his mailing list for the
Cosmic Circle publications. After Coordinator Claude left New York in August,
many of the fanzines from Schwartz' and Unger's collections were missing, and
they charged that Superfan had taken them. Because of this, a personal fight,
and the fact that the Cosmic Circle had begun to look grotesque, Larry Shaw
resigned from the Cosmic ranks and declared feud on Degler.
Meanwhile, the latter's lank form appeared briefly in Philadelphia and
Hagerstown, whence he caught a ride west (visiting some unknown stfnists in
Oklahoma on the way) to Shangri-LA. There he joined the LASFS and used the
clubroom facilities to publish weekly "news" sheets alternately titled Cosmic
Circle Commentator and Fanews Analyzer, and some publications written by and
credited to others tho reworked by him. In these weekly sheets the Cosmic
Circle program reached full form; Don Rogers answered a resounding "yes!" to
the old question, "-are fans slans?"- He proposed to contact cosmic-minded
mutants everywhere, even by use of radio broadcasts. Numerous special service
bureaus, for functions such as purchasing mimeo supplies cooperatively,
supplying fans in the Army with free fanzines and proz, and planning tours for
other travelling fans, were announced as being set up by the Newcastle HQ.
Publications projected included a directory of fans' addresses, True
Fantastic Experiences, Spicy Spaceship Stories, and others. A
fanational literature was urged to promote cohesiveness in the new
race. It was announced that a piece of land in the Ozarks (owned by Degler's
mother) was available for use as Cosmic Camp for vacationing Cosmen. The Slan
Center idea was pushed to its ultimate extreme, and the coordinator foresaw
the day when those who now "carried" 22 states (that many state organizations
were claimed to exist) would inherit the Solar System. The first step was
organization of just the sort that grotches Fanarchists. With the demise of
the N3F [already moribund in 1944] Degler said, Third Fandom had ended, and
the Fourth Fandom was now coming into existence under the aegis of the Planet
Fantasy Federation. Pending their consent (which was emphatically not given)
prominent fans were named as regional representatives, and almost every
actifan he'd visited (and some he hadn't) who received him civilly and
listened to him politely was named as a supporter of the Cosmic Circle. The
weeklies carried a hodge-podge of policy pronouncements by the Coordinator,
recollections of his trips, a few items of general interest and inaccuracy,
and Cosmic Circle news like Rogers being shut out of the LASFS clubroom one
day or Helen Bradleigh conducting a summer school for Cosmic Children. (Helen
Bradleigh was a pseudonym for Joan Domnick, the teenage girl whom townsmen had
prevented from starting the super-race with Degler; she tended children for
working mothers in her spare time.) The most noticeable characteristic of the
publications was that they were the worst-looking legible fanzines ever
published; abounding strikeovers, paragraphs nonexistent, stencils crowded to
the edges, no spacing after periods, misspelling, overuse of capitals
quotemarks and underlines, wandering unplanned sentences, grammatical errors
like "can and has went", malapropisms like calling Widner a stolid and far-
seeing fan, ad nauseam.
T Bruce Yerke became alarmed at the prospect of publicity for fandom
directed at potential fans and the general public appearing in such garments,
and sent several fans a request for information about Degler, on which to base
a report on the Cosmic Circle. Degler reacted with violent denunciation of
Yerke, but was persuaded to cease firing till the report was prepared and
published. In the report, Yerke stated his belief that Cosmic Clod was a
nearly precipitated case of schizophrenia, a paranoiac with delusions of
grandeur and a persecution complex, and called for a ban on him if he refused
to reform his practices. Leading Angelenoes endorsed his report.
While he was new in LA, Superfan had gained James Kepner and other new
fen as members, and Ackerman let himself be named honorary member of one more
organization. Before long, everyone except 4e had resigned and the branches
of the CC set up in California were memberless after Degler left.
Upon learning thru Fanewscard of the Michiconference date, Degler gave up
plans to expand the Cosmic Circle in the West Coast area in order to attend.
He arrived on 29 October as the Ashleys were beginning to move to Slan Shack.
Al Ashley told him the Conference didn't want him, and tried to explain why,
but only got arguments in return. Finally Degler said he had no place to
sleep and only 60¢, but the Ashleys refused to loan him anything.
When Superfan came back to Newcastle, Frankfort Nelson Stein (whose
existence has been questioned, for obvious reasons) was imputed with having
taken over an Oakgrove Fantasy Society and reestablishing Slan Slum there;
Frank N. Stein formed a Futurian Alliance to fight the old-fan clique who were
responsible for this new Exclusion Act, the Ashley Atrocity, and were trying
to keep down the new and young fans (--all this per Claude Degler). The Cosmic
One claimed that the CC was neutral in this war, but left no doubt where his
sympathies lay in the fight against the "National Fantasy Fascist Federation",
and seemed to identify his cause historically with the old Futurian movement.
By this time Raym Washington was the only active fan who supported him; Raym
had privately deplored the "morass" of publishing, and urged Degler to
moderate his statements, but still hoped that some good might be done with the
Cosmic Circle. In the face of this situation, a Cosmic Circle Conference
(Councilcon) in Newcastle announced the resurrection of the MWFFF.
Meanwhile, a copy of the Cosmic Circle Commentator had come into the
hands of Amazing Stories' Ray Palmer. The declaration of existence of a super
race smelled to him of Nazism, and the fanationalistic program seemed the
horrid ultima of fans' movement away from the proz which he, as a fan of the
First Fandom and now a frankly commercialistic editor, decried. Because of
this, and because fans were now not the type of readers his publications
catered to, he made it known through FFF Newsweekly that fans of fandom would
not get into the letter departments in future, originals would not be
contributed for auction at fan gatherings, and so on. Some fen reacted by
saying that Degler's ideas in some form had all been spoken in fandom before,
and who the hell was Palmer to try to dictate to fandom or criticize others as
crackpots, and as for Amazing and Fantastic Adventures, good riddance to bad
rubbish. But others, alarmed at the possibility that other proz might follow
Ziff-Davis' lead and cut fandom off from financial, recruiting, and publicity
assistance, made haste to inform Palmer that Degler didn't speak for fandom.
Palmer modified his statement of the ban, but urged fen to return to the ways
of their fathers.
On the theory that the Cosmic Circle could best be laughed out of
existence, the Boston boys had issued a Trivial Triangle Troubadour, FTLaney
produced the Comic Circle Commentator, Kepner followed with Caustic Square
Commentator, and Tucker announced formation of the Cosworms. When the Z-D
affair broke proceedings were started to expel Clod from FAPA, which he had
lately joined (Laney and others made up specimen batches of surplus
CCCommentators Degler had left in LA to send around FAPA in illustration of
their criticisms of the Coordinator.) And Clod found it expedient to let his
LASFS membership lapse because of the overwhelming sentiment against him
there. It wasn't a joke any longer.
After the war the Cosmic One, using a new pename of "John Crisman",
published Weird Unsolved Mysteries, a flying saucer review thing, which he
circulated at the PhilCon I. Future issues (which apparently never appeared)
were to feature such articles as "EE Smith is Earthbound and Unimaginative".
He also announced Monster Stories, to feature "Behind the Super-Nova" ("a tale
of sheer cosmic horror and weird vengeance"). Later he crossed out the
"Crisman" and inserted a new pseudonym, "John York", and used WUM to exchange
for fanzines. Any further history he may have made is unknown to your Gibbon.
DEMOLISHISMS Alfred Bester treated telepathy with imagination and talent in
The Demolished Man, but its primary effect on us was in
provoking Demolishisms. Actually the practice -- the use of figures for their
phonetic equivalents in puns and names -- traces back to Ackermanese ("4sj" is
a typical demolishism) but Besterfolk Duffy Wyg&, @kins, and $son [Wygand,
Atkins, and Jackson] inspired a revival of the custom. Those who have/had
applied to their names this technique include Vin¢ Clarke, Agberg, S&y
S&erson, J&y /[Jean and Andy] Young, etc. / Finlay and Horace Au had it
applied but didn't take it up. If : Glencannon were a fan, doubtless he'd go
along.
DEN Long before Slanshacks and clubrooms were thought of, individuals had
their own bits of territory dedicated to fandom. The hearthstone around
which all is polarized is the typer. Walls are covered with originals and,
among the worldly-minded, pinups. Files of proz, folders of fmz, and cases of
books pretty well fill the room, but in addition to those are correspondence
files, stacks of unread proz and sometimes fanzines; and a duplicator has to
be fitted in here somewhere. To this add miscellanea like scrapbooks, photo
albums, camera and developing equipment, radio, record player and records --
and don't forget that the fan has to keep his wardrobe somewhere and sleep in
the room too. The most amazing den Speer had ever seen was Lester del Rey's
in Washington, where you would actually and literally dig down two decimeters
in the litter on the floor and come up with an empty milk bottle and half a
loaf of bread. Of course, not all fans can boast such bohemianism; some keep
quite genteel, bourgeois-looking rooms.
DEPARTMENT Every magazine must have departments, and some, both in the pro
and in the fan fields, have become overloaded with them. They
include the editorial, the contents page, a letter section, reviews of proz
and fanzines, artistic and argumentative quotations, and various columns and
polls. However, articles with titles such as "Two Letters from Harry Smarje
Dept" are actually a peculiar form of humor, it being understood that the item
is not a department and will not recur.
DERELICTS Toronto fans, hosts to the 1948 TorCon and continuing up to the
present time. Ned McKeown, Bill Grant, Howard Lyons, and Ger
Steward were/are members. The Derelict Insurgents include Steward and Boyd
Raeburn.
DERELICTI DEROGATIONS A feature of A BAS, Boyd Raeburn's fanzine, these
quasi-playlets are made up of actual quotations from
fanzines and letters, mostly revealing ghastly depths of fuggheadedness in the
speakers. Much imitated (with little success), but also much attacked by
their victims -- notably Peter Vorzimer.
DERO See Shaver
DEVELOPINE Gestetner or somebody makes an "acid stencil" for mimeographs,
with which solid black areas can be produced by brushing on a
substance that corrodes away unwanted parts of the stencil (evidently not made
of wax); by analogy with photos, this gunk is called developine.
DFF Dixie Fan Federation, an organization to which fans in a rather hazily-
defined South could belong. It was launched by the Columbia (SC) local
in 1940, but soon became no more than its official organ, and never had any
officers except the temporarily appointed ones. There was supposed to be a
conference at Columbia in 1941 to get things started, but this fell thru. A
group trip by car to the ChiCon or DenVention went unrealized, but the
Spiritrip was made to the '42 Boskone.
DIACYBERSEMNETIMANTICS The most universal psychological cure-all in
humanity's spiritual pharmacopeias. Theobald Mackerel
introduced it at the Norwescon as a takeoff on Cybernetics, General Semantics,
and Dianetics, the latter just introduced to a staggered fandom earlier that
year. Mackerel displayed a Chaotic Inferential at the con; it was seven feet
tall, and consisted of a life-sized figure nailed by wrists and feet to an
ankh (made of two beams and an automobile tire). The figure was draped in a
white sheet and crowned with a wreath of blackberry vines. It was a
therapeutic object, the inventor explained; by hanging various objects (a
shoe, a whiskey bottle, a female leg [plaster], a wooden rifle) on one arm of
the figure and signs (Sex, Free Enterprise, National Defense) on the other,
the visualizer could abstract at various levels and thereby transfer his sins
to the Chaotic Inferential. Dianetics was ranked as "a discovery equal to
that of fire" by L Ron Hubbard, but Mackerel concluded that
Diacybersemnetimantics was more important to the human race than fire.
DIANETICS See Scientology
DIGEST At times when there have been so many subscription fanzines being
published that only the most active fan can keep up with them all,
demand has risen for a Reader's Digest of the fan mags. A few issues of
digests have been published by various fans, and LeZ and others sometimes ran
reprints from their contemporaries, but no one appeared to handle the job as a
steady thing.
DIGEST SIZE among fanzines is standard size folded the short way of the
paper. For proz, it's the size of the eponymic Reader's Digest.
DIRECTORATE The Advisory Board of the N3F.
DISCLAVE Any of several conclaves held in Washington, DC, under the auspices
of the Washington SF Association.
DISILLUSIONED The state of a person who has learned not by gradual experience
DISENCHANTED but by sudden severe shock that fandom has its less pleasant
aspects.
DISTIMMING That which characterizes the relationship of the Gostak to the
Doshes.
DITTO A method of reproducing by dye-transfer process; like hektoing
(and hekto carbons are used to make the master) but using a dye solvent
instead of a gelatin transfer medium. Moistened sheets are pressed against
the master, and take up enough of the pigment to make a good copy. The ditto
machine costs more than mimeos of comparable quality, but cost per page of
reproduction is less. Besides the reproduction-range up to 300 copies because
no ink is wasted, there is the further advantage that some copies may be run
off now and others next week. Ditto is usually in purple (colors are
available, as below) and on smooth surfaced paper; this is a specimen of it.
[This definition was originally on a separate page that was dittoed.] Oh, and
Laney called Walter A Coslet's spiritduplicating plant a Dittorium, tho
Coslet's ditto is actually a Wolber machine.
DNQ Do not quote. A formal prohibition, tho items of overwhelming interest
are at time paraphrased by feudists and the unprincipled.
DOC Most often the nickname standing alone refers to Robert W Lowndes, but it
may mean C L Barrett or Paul Hammett Medicinae Doctores or RD Swisher, Wm
H Evans, Andrew T Young, or EE Smith Philosophiae Doctores.
DOES DEATH RELEASE YOU? From the Outlanders, that is. Sneary was questioned
thus by Burbee, but evaded answer.
DOOR The most famous ones in fandom were wrecked by John van Couvering and
Jim Harmon. VanC walked thru the glass door of the Downey (Cal.) public
library one day in 1950, winning fannish notoriety and a mention in the local
paper. Jim Harmon was waterbagged by Harlan Ellison at the MidWestCon in
1954, swarmed up to Ellison's room demanding entrance, and, when Ellison
rolled a firecracker under the door, slammed his fist thru the panel in the
best Col. Renwick tradition. The hotel manager threatened arrest, but a
collection from the pros was made to pay for it. ($35).
DOSHES Those which are distimmmed by the Gostak.
DOTS What J Ackerman and F Speer insist on not having after their pseudo
middle initials, what Britishers and purists use entirely too much of
after honest contractions like "mags" and "dept", and what Virgil Finlay's
drawings used to be characterized by.
DOUBLEBOOKED Of pbs or magazines, bound together heel-and-toe fashion so that
each can be read from its cover inward. From Ace Books' use of
this style for their pbs.
DOUBLE-INVERTED HUMOR Ordinary humor consists of upsetting the usual
connection of things and using a new one, as in puns.
A joke of this type is the story told by Doc Lowndes, of a girl whom a giant
was trying to catch and eat. After eluding him a number of times, she somehow
caused him to fall unconscious, and sat down and gobbled him up. The essence
of humor is probably incongruity, but a necessary element of a joke is
surprise. After one has heard or read several thousand jokes in which the
normal order of things is upset, he comes to expect and anticipate it, so the
only way to surprise him is by resorting to the obvious. ("Simplicity is the
last resort of the complex", as Walt Willis says.) Such humor may fail if the
reader does not realize that it pretends to be a single-inverted story to
start with, or if he is not yet advanced enough on the naive type to
appreciate a re-inversion. An extension of double-inverted humor takes place
when the naive type has been left so far behind that nobody expects it to be
used; then a bald pun or other simple witticism is the thing that will
surprise and delight the reader at the same time that he pretends to groan.
The Lowndes story, indeed, may belong to this secondary stage.
DOWN IN THE BAR! (Tucker) Rallying cry for the depressed and weary at
NOLaCon.
DOWNWARD SLANTING EYES Something E Everett Evans had, in the Insurgents'
descriptions of LASFS activities. Not to mention a
Grey Moustache.
DRAMA Numerous weird and a few SF plays have been noted or reviewed in
fanzines. Tony Boucher once compiled a list (in PEON) of over 60
operas with at least elements of fantasy. Among the more famous of those with
considerable fantasy content are Gluck's Orfeo et Euridice, Gounod's
Faust, Menotti's The Medium, Mozart's The Magic Flute,
Weber's Die Freischutz, Rimsky-Korsakov's Golden Cockerel, the
whole of Wagner's Ring des Nibelungen, and of course Offenbach's
Tales of Hoffman, which Boucher describes as "unquestionably the most
magnificently fantastic of all operas" (and, now it's been filmed, movies).
Some fans at the NorWesCon sent Giancarlo Menotti a copy of Heinlein's "Green
Hills of Earth" with the suggestion that he make it into an opera, but without
result.
Dramas written by fans themselves have usually been of the "closet drama"
type; i.e., intended for reading, not acting. Up till the end of the war only
one fan drama had actually been performed (Widner's adaptation of Chauvenet's
"Legion of Legions", at the Boskone II) but thereafter a number of others
appeared at conventions -- even, fergawdsake, a stf ballet ("Asteroid", at the
ChiCon II). And the tapera appeared as an art form, especially in the hands
of Walt Willis and the Liverpool group.
DRESSED-UP MUNDANES Hackwork in which fantastic elements could be replaced
with non-fantastic ones without changing the plot
essentially. Horace Gold ran a lethal takeoff on this sort of thing in the
first Galaxy, printing in parallel columns a tale with such equivalent
substitutions as:
"Jets blasting, Bat Durston came "Hoofs drumming, Bat Durston came
screeching down through the atmosphere galloping down through the narrow
of Bbllzznaj, a tiny planet 1,000 light pass at Eagle Gulch, a tiny town
years the other side of Sirius...." 1,000 miles north of Tombstone...."
DRINKING More talked about than practiced (and practiced plenty) is
two-fisted drinking among fans. Very few get disgracefully drunk,
tho the way some talk you'd think they all did. Certainly most have no
objections to touring the joints around midnight following a hard day at the
convention. Your correspondent has no data on their preferences among the
various liquors, but Blog and Nuclear Fizz should be noted. Mention should
also be made of the Super Science Fiction Special, even if not half a dozen
fans remember it. Central States fen favor the amber nectar of the grain,
such as Grain Belt Premium, the official brew of the old MFS; inhabitants of
the decadent cities of the east also favor the grape. One of the reasons for
the strife in LA in late '43 was the intrusion of drinking on LASFS
gettogethers, transmission of the habit to younger members, and Ackerman's
objections to the same.
DROODLES A sort of drawing perpetrated by Roger Price in book, magazine, and
syndicated feature. It looks like a nonsense drawing till somebody
tells you what it is, when it makes sense in a way. Droodles by Price and by
fans have appeared in fmz sometimes. Here is a specimen:
\
Flying saucer (edge on)
DRUNKEN PRESIDENT OF FAPA Lee Jacobs. He wasn't familiar with the potency
of Burbee's Home Brew the first time he met it.
Thence came various "Drunken/Sober Officer of FAPA" signature-lines.
DSFL See Michifen
DUMMY A preliminary page layout, which assures the fan publisher that there
is room for everything on the page and enables him to justify typed
matter, ktp. It's a lot of work, and most fan publishers skip this step.
Also, a miniature of an issue of a fanzine in preparation, simply indicating
what material will be on each page.
DUPLICATION Synonym for reproduction, with us.
DW3 Collective name for Don Wollheim, Dirk Wylie, and Dick Wilson at the
time they occupied the Ivory Tower.
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