Word: forteans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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...
...Last week in Manhattan a group of writers (Theodore Dreiser, Harry Elmer Barnes, Ben Hecht, Booth Tarkington, Edgar Lee Masters, John Cowper Powys, Tiffany Thayer, Harry Leon Wilson), formed a Fortean Society to create wider interest in the work of Charles Fort, author of The Book of the Damned, New Lands (out of print), Lo! (Claude Kendall, Publisher). For 26 years Author Fort has collected phenomena which Science has been unable to explain. He & his friends believe that modern knowledge must be freed of the prejudices of Science...