Beschreibung
Wrappers. Staples rusty. Wartime journal of the Non-Combatant Labour Corps (known by the regular army as "Nancy Elsie"), edited without credit by the 22-year-old Derek Stanford - author, presumably, of the story "Armistice" (by "Derek D.S."), pp.8-9, and from whose library this derives; other named writers are John Bate, Stanford's assistant editor (later Editor of Oasis), Michael Gough (the actor), George Boon and Kenneth Yeeles, but most of the authors (Tom Cat [Michael Gough by another name], D. Cipher, George Slugger Snapdragon) are obviously pseudonymous. Among those who served with Stanford were the playwright Christopher Fry, who contributed to a second number that was never published, Proust's biographer George Painter and the poet/artist Ian Hamilton Finlay. Stanford devotes a chapter of his memoir Inside the Forties to the story of his magazine, the downfall of which he blames on a "news item" about squadrons of angels and Seraphim by "Michel", i.e. Michael (nephew of Maurice) Hewlett, a prolific contributor, that attracted the attention of the national press and caused the War Office to write at once to Stanford's CO. Comparatively innocent as the journal seems now, with its accounts of debates and wassailing, poetry and stories alternating with merry military banter, Stanford says he characterised it to his friend John Bayliss as the "resultant offspring of a rendezvous with the Muse in a public urinal; lewd, illiterate, localized and boorish". Bless 'em all was banned after a single issue, for being seditious and obscene, and "a jeep from Whitehall arrived to take away all copies we had, all proof sheets, typescripts and material selected for the second number". Stanford salvaged some of the material, and printed unpublished lyrics he had been given by Fry in his 1952 book Christopher Fry Album; but so successful were the authorities in their task otherwise that the journal seems invisible in library catalogues. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 29M100080
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