Bobby Pope

(ca. 1932 – )

Bobby Pope was a young fan from Charleston, SC, active in the 1950s. He was a member of TLMA and a contributor to Quandry.

In Nolacon II’s PR 1 (Spring 1987, p. 17), Fred Chappell recalled traveling to his first convention, Nolacon, the 1951 Worldcon, in company with Lynn Hickman and Bobby:

In Charleston, we stopped to pick up another fan, Bobby Pope, an urbane 19-year-old fan with good Southern manners. Bobby was at first disposed to like me, but I made that so dif­ficult that when we got to Atlanta he drew me aside into an alley and offered to teach me some courtesy. “How you going to do that?” “I’ll whip your ass till you say Sir from sun-up till dark,” he replied.

It was an offer I could not refuse. Bobby was a head taller, at least, and outweighed me by a hundredweight. I tried to sub­due myself.

And anyhow I wouldn’t have wanted to spoil his scoop. He knew one of fandom’s most closely guarded secrets: that Lee Hoffman was a girl. He knew further that Bob Tucker, mistaken about her gender, had been sending her letters full of scurrilous remarks and X-rated jokes. In those days we didn’t talk dirty in front of girls; there was always somebody like Bobby Pope who would whip your ass for the practice.

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