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Taken at Beatley's Hotel, in Indian Lake, OH (home town of the club's elder statesman, C.L. "Doc" Barrett), in June of 1951. Our second of four years at Beatley's, aka "Beastly's-on-the-Bayou". In addition to Robert Bloch, Arthur C. Clarke and "Doc" Smith, the list of attending pros contained at least one more entry: Randall Garrett, later the author of the Lord D'Arcy magic and mystery alternate history stories.

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Robert Bloch

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Henry Burwell

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Arthur C. Clarke

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Arthur C. Clarke & Bea Mahaffey

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Dick Clarkson

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Joe Fillinger

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Lee Hoffman

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Bea Mahaffey

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Nancy Moore & Ben Singer

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E.E. "Doc" Smith

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Unknown man

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Ray & Perdita Lilly Nelson

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All photographs on this page courtesy of Mike Resnick

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It was Ben Singer who perpetrated the infamous Bob Tucker Death Hoax in early 1949 (see "The Pleasure of Dying" in History>Cinvention>Memory Book for more details).

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