Bill Entrekin

(March 12, 1928 – August 28, 2001)

William Henderson Entrekin, Jr., a Southern fan active in the 1940s and ’50s, was a member of the FSFS and attended Lynnhavention. He lived in Miami and later in Americus, Georgia. He was a member of the N3F.

After Chicon 2, he promoted the TASFIC Chronicler, “the complete photographic coverage of the convention in memory­ book form. Not only read but SEE what took place at this great science fiction convention. A permanent pic­torial journal as a companion to your convention program booklet.” We don’t know if it was, in fact, published.

In “The Harp Stateside” in Quandry 27, Walt Willis reported that at the Worldcon,

Bill had imported a carboy of some liquid that seems to have been the American equivalent of poteen, and it had wrought havoc. Bob Farnham innocently took one glass and passed out for ten hours. Some other fans who tried it were never heard of again. Some say it even made Henry Burwell's eyebrow twitch. I would however like to deny the rumour, first spread by Tucker, that my esteemed colleague Jim Harmon passed out in front of the elevators. This is not true. In actual fact Jim came to in front of the elevators. while the cortege bearing his body was being questioned by the house detectives.

Entrekin was married to Christine Entrekin.

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Person

1928—2001

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