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...Harvard men's team is not really different. After opening in an exhibition game against the Fortean Explorers, (who?) the Crimson (1-1 overall, 0 0 Ivy) got its engine tuned up with games against Army and Babson...
Fort's books (Lo!, Wild Talents) were enthusiastically hailed by a group of U.S. literary exhibitionists including Alexander Woollcott and Tiffany Thayer. In 1931 they formed the Fortean Society, dedicated to "the frustration of science." The society, which has no real magnetic field, just a gelatinous shell, petered out, leaving science no more frustrated than usual. But the tradition goes on. Next time the rain washes dust or pollen or algae out of the air, some newspaper will probably report that "scientists were mystified." They often are, but not by green rain...
...Rascoe, John Cowper Powys, Booth Tarkington, Harry Elmer Barnes, Harry Leon Wilson and Tiffany Thayer were present one night at a dinner given in Fort's honor by Publisher J. David Stern. Fort himself said almost nothing, quietly sipped ginger ale. The others enthusiastically laid plans for a Fortean Society which would propagate Fortism to the ends of the earth. The exhilaration of that dinner passed. In 1932 Fort died in The Bronx. But one man kept his discipleship alive. This was Tiffany Thayer, whose gaudy, perfervid novels (Thirteen Men, Thirteen Women, Illustrious Corpse, etc.) are not unlike...
Last week Fortism had its renaissance in Vol. 1, No. 1 of a slim journal called The Fortean Society Magazine, edited by Tiffany Thayer. The lead article, written by Publisher Thayer, purported to prove that Amelia Earhart and Fred Noonan were "murdered"-i. e., went astray in the Pacific because geodesists do not really know how to make accurate maps of the earth's surface. A black-bordered rectangle bore the legend: "These honored dead were Forteans: OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES - LINCOLN STEFFENS." The magazine also announced that astronomers played down a recent eclipse of Venus by the moon...
...publisher, even in Manhattan, may be a sign that the U. S., like Pauline Athens, has an altar ready for the Unknown God. Or it may merely indicate that Anything Goes. But most curious is the fact that Fort has a following of some note, who have formed a Fortean Society to praise his name. Publisher Kendall's jacket blurb is enthusiastically contributed to by Authors Theodore Dreiser, Booth Tarkington, Harry Elmer Barnes, John Cowper Powys, Ben Hecht (who announced himself "the first disciple of Charles Fort"). Manhattan's conservative Herald Tribune is quoted as calling Fort "that...