ChairmanGeorge Scithers wrote an extensive Con-Committee Chairman's Guide reporting on both the Worldcon events from his side, and the run-up to it. It's a wonderful example of what conrunning was like in simpler days – when the entire program fit on two pages of the program book and mostly in a single room, some 60 feet (18 m) square.
1:30 Bob Silverberg & Ed Emsh: RING AROUND AN ILLUSTRATION Problems in writing a story around an illo; or, pleasing editor’s whimsy for fun and profit.
2:00 Ted Cogswell & Cohorts: HIPPOCRENE AND HYPERSPACE Cogswell struggles with the Muses, best two falls out of three.
2:30 Introduction of notables, auction, and break.
3:15 Larry Ivie & Dick Lupoff: SF ILLUSTRATION & ART IN THE COMIC BOOKS (Me to Your Leader Take) All in color for a dime: the rise and fall of the comic book.
4:30 Willy Ley: MYSTERIES OF ASTRONOMY A spring day on Pluto, and such.
Jon and Joni Stopa in their award-winning Discon masquerade costume, “The Succubus and her Mate.” 7:30 The Convention Members: THE COSTUME BALL [Admission by badge] Scenes to numb the senses and appall the mind, with music by Ira Sabin and his Orch.
1:00pm Barbara Silverberg, Elsie Wollheim, Carol Pohl, and others: LIFE WITH A STF WRITER Ted Cogswell has induced the wives to tell their side of the story.
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