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| − | '''"The Club House"''' was a [[fanzine]] review column written by [[Rog Phillips]] in ''[[Amazing]]'' from March, 1948, to March, 1953. The column was created in part to reverse the bad image ''[[Amazing Stories]]'' gained in [[fandom]] from [[Ray Palmer]]'s [[Shaver Mystery]]. (A similar column was run by [[Mari Wolf]] in ''[[Imagination]]'' in the 1950s. At the time, Wolf was married to Phillips.)
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| − | The column was later revived in other [[SF]] [[prozines]] edited by [[Raymond Palmer]]. In ''Amazing'' under ''[[Ted White]]'' in the 1970s, it became a general column about [[fandom]] that brought in many [[neofans]]. A version continues today.
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| − | [[Vernon L. McCain]] described the importance of the original Club House: "'The Club House' had done more to make [[fandom]] grow than any other single force in history, and it altered the whole character of [[fandom]] by bringing in a different type person. Not that this new type was in any way superior or inferior to the old type, but they were different and they changed [[fandom]]. Many of us preferred the old type to the new, which somewhat resembled a combination of the American Legion and the Housewives' Thursday Knitting and Tea Auxiliary. Less publicity is what [[fandom]] needs."
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