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• Midwest News & Views
  ...nd [[Richard Meyer]] starting in 1940 when it was called '''''Mid-West Fan News'''''. 1 || February 6, 1940 || 7 || ed. Richard Meyer; titled ''Mid-West Fan News''
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• Richard I. Meyer
  ...o-editor of ''[[Ad Astra (Reinsberg)|Ad Astra]]'', started ''[[Midwest Fan News]]'' and was an officer of the [[IFF]] and part of the [[Chicon I]] committe [[Category:fan]]
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• Mark Reinsberg
  '''Mark Simon Reinsberg''', aka '''Midwest Marky''', a [[Chicago]] [[SF]] fan, author, and [[book]] reviewer, was active during the 1930s–50s. He als * ''[[Midwest News & Views]]'' [[newszine]]
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• Newszine
  ...annish]] newszines have news primarily of [[fandom]] with [[professional]] news sometimes thrown in for good measure. ...ted as a separate category. [[Clubzines]] likewise often contain a lot of news, but most are focused on the doings of a single club and are better thought
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• Phyllis Economou
  ...aukee]] [[fandom]], and she regularly hosted Christmas parties and other [[fan gatherings]], including the 1959 [[Phyllcon]]. She once described herself a In ''[[Science Fiction News Letter]]'' 28 ([https://www.fanac.org/fanzines/Bloomington_News_Letter/Bloo
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• Mari Beth Wheeler
  ...me]] of Mary Jayne Wheeler (née Coons, later Colvin). She was a longtime [[fan]], beginning in the 1940s, and a member of [[LASFS]]. ...out with the [[Slan Shack]] crowd, part of the group that moved from the [[Midwest]] to [[L.A.]]. Her first [[Worldcon]] was [[Pacificon]] in Los Angeles in 1
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• Oliver Saari
  .... “Ollie” Saari''' was a [[Finland]]-born, [[Midwest fandom|Midwestern]] [[fan]] and [[SF]] writer of the 1930s–1940s. He published in most of the earl ...settled in [[Chicago]], according to [[Bob Tucker]] in ''[[Science Fiction News Letter]]'' 18, p. 3
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• Philly in '53
  ...tion of Philly as a possible convention site was in a copy of the ''[[PSFS NEWS]]'' (the biweekly newsletter of the [[Philadelphia Science Fiction Society] ...ote alone. The entire state of [[Mississippi]] (too bad there was only one fan from Mississippi!) was behind us. It was even rumored that [[Forrest J Acke
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• Larry Tucker
  ...ence Keith Tucker''' of [[Ann Arbor]] was an influential [[actifan]] in [[Midwest fandom]] from the 1970s through the '90s. Larry was a [[trufan]] whose [[fa ...s]] with an all-star cast of [[fans]], including most of the [[BNFs]] in [[Midwest fandom]]. ''Faans'', partly inspired by disastrous hotel problems plaguing
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• Michifen
  ''Michigan is never a dull place to conduct your [[fan activity]].'' —[[Bob Tucker]], ''[[Science Fiction News Letter]]'' (March 1952).
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• Bob Tucker
  ...3.0|'''Tucker [[cut]]ting a [[stencil]] for ''[[Le Zombie]]'' in his [[den|fan den]] in the mid-1950s.'''<br>''Photo by [[Bob Madle]].'']] A familiar figure at [[conventions]], particularly in the [[Midwestern fandom|Midwest]], he could often be seen leading his signature [[Smooth]] ritual, drinking
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• N3F
  '''The National Fantasy Fan Federation''', also abbreviated as '''NFFF''', founded in 1941, is the olde ...and publishes a number of [[fanzines]], including ''[[The National Fantasy Fan]]'', the descendant of its original [[newsletter]], ''[[Bonfire]]''.  Acti
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• FAPA
  ...A''' ("FAP-uh"), the '''Fantasy Amateur Press Association''', the oldest [[fan]] [[apa]] in the world, distributing members’ [[fanzines]] for nearly a c ...They were inspired to create FAPA by their memberships in some of the non-fan [[amateur press associations]] (“[[ajays]]”), which they learned of fro
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