LIVERPOOL AFTER THE CON ... I WANT THAT QUOTE FROM THE BATHROOM DOOR ... TAKING A BATH
IS CONSIDERED AN HONOR HERE ... DAVE SHAVED OFF ONE-HALF HIS MUSTACHE AGAIN ... GIRL
ON BAYSWATER ROAD: "I MADE TWO BOB LAST NITE - SILVERBERG AND MADLE:" ,. WE STILL
DON'T KNOW WHO BOB MADLE IS, BUT HE'S A DAMNED GOOD BHEER DRINKER ... WHATEVER YOU D0,
DON'T GIVE THEM TO PETER REANEY .., PLEASE GIVE ME SOME AMERICAN CIGARETTES ... THE
HELL WITH THE QUEEN, I WAANT BHEER ... HE HAD TO BE ANOTHER JIM HARMON, Y'KNOW ..
YOU'RE NOT FANS! ... EVER HEAR OF TAE CANNIBAL WHO PASSED HIS BROTHER IN THE JUNGLE?
 .. SLOGAN FOR THE SOLACON: CALIFORNIA, WHERE THE WIND BLOWS FREE AND EVEN THE SUN
GOES DOWN ... QUOTE FROM A LETTER RECEIVED FROM HAL LYNCH BY WILL JENKINS: "ENCOURAGE
OUR BRITISH COUSINS TO MAKE A FILM OR TWO, WILL YOU? APPARENTLY THEY'VE SCROUNGED UP
A CAMERA AND ACTING TALENT AND NEED ONLY A BIT OF PUSHING TO MAKE SOMETHING WITH A
REAL STORY TO IT TO HAVE ALL THE MISERIES, I MEAN GLORIES, THAT WE HAVE." ... JIMMY
SHANAKLIROGHLI SAID TO SAY HELLO ... THIS ISN'T T00 BAD A HOTEL ... SORRY, I DON'T
DRINK ... IT SOUNDS LIKE A SOAP-DROPPING CONTEST ... I FELT RIGHT AT HOME IN LONDON.
TYPICAL MIDWESTERN WEATHER ... I AM, T00, A TRUFAN: ENEY SAYS S0.
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     So much for interlineations.

     After all the mental effort expended, the four of us settled down to a little
reading. I had copies of PLOY and TRIODE with me that made the next hour or so
intercsting. Steve, the Immaculate One, wrote a letter, while Will and Sheldon shared
a, copy of THE GREAT CHARLIE, the life of Charlie Chaplin. I couldn't resist taking a
picture (in color) of this act of subversion by two so-called stalwart defenders of
democracy.

     Will Jenkins, then President of the Philadelphia Science Fiction Society, probably
isn't two well known to fanzine fandom but he's been around the PSFS for ten years or
more. Will, I guess, is somewhere in his early thirties and works for the Pennsylvania
Railroad. Consequently, he is able to attend conventions without having to pay to get
to them or return. (PRR employees have this privilege, you know, of being allowed ao
many gratis railroad miles of travel per annum.)

     Back in the good old days when I was one of the masterminds of the Philadelphia
Science Fiction Society, we had an insurgent group that met at my place every two wceks.
The PSFS waa so large (over thirty members at the time) that two factions developed.
Our faction met in my bedroom amidst thousands of S-F books and magazines, and plotted
our various nefarious political moves. We also drank bheer, smoked cigars, told jokes
and, in fact, had a real ball during our meetings. We called ourselves the Fantascience
Literary Society and, as one of our group, Harry Aladorf one time so aptly put it,
"Tbe PSFS is run from Madle's bedroom."

     Well, Will Jenkins was one of the permanent parties at these meetings. Others
who could usually be found there were Jack Agnew, Hal Lynch, Sol Levin, Dave Jenrette
(he was known as Dave Hammond then) and Charlie Watson; occasional visitors were Jim
Williams, Tom Clareson and Alan E. Nourse. Yes, we had quite a club in those days.
And, oddly enough, I'll bet fanzine fandom didn't even know we existed! (This was back
in 1950-53.)

     Steve Schultheis and Sheldon Deretchin, my other companions, I had met many times
at previous conventions. Steve, undoubtedly the most impeccable dresser in fandom (it
has been said that he will not wear a pair of trousers more than once without having
them pressed), was (and is) assocfated with the Cleveland group, some of whom are Nick
and Noreen Falasca, Ben Jason and Frank Androsavsky. They are noted for throwing big
parties at conventions in big suites. (They are to be contrasted with other groups who
throw big parties at conventiona in little suites - sometimes fn no suites at all.)
flowever, let me be the firat to point out that Steve does not drink at all. Not so
with Sheldon Deretchin: 1et roe be the first to point out that he doesn't do anything
at all but drink. Shel is in his early twenbies and is not the modest, backward type.