This week's 'zine is a doozy!: The Leonard Nimoy National Association of Fans, Garland, Texas, Chatterboxes #2 (I don't have #1).
[Typed on one of those lovely calligraphic typewriters that makes it both hard to read and to transcribe. You're welcome.]
Our first LNNAF Journal will be issued in July. One of the articles which will be featured is an "Open Forum" in which LNNAF members are invited to express their opinions on a given subject. The subject of the first "Open Forum" will be: "What do you like best about Mr. Spock?"--and members are urged to submit their opinions for publication no later than May 31st.
[Well, what do YOU like best about Mr. Spock? I like that he made smart sexy.]
The LNNAF announces the establishment of "The NIMOY Award" to be presented each December to the member who, in the opinion of the LNNAF staff, Mr. Nimoy and his staff, has been most consistently active in the LNNAF and is considered most deserving of the Award.
[I know who won it in 1968. I wonder if it ever was given out again.]
Mr. Nimoy has selected as his favorite charity: UNICEF [follows a long paragraph about what UNICEF is and that Nimoy wants donations to UNICEF in lieu of gifts. Of course, in time, it would come out that UNICEF was highly corrupt; this no longer seems to be the case as of 2022.]
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Mrs. Priscilla Hale of Eau Gallie, Florida has sent to me a newspaper clipping which should interest all you members who have inquired about the existence of the three-dimensional chess game used on "Star Trek". The clipping reads follows:
"NBC WANTS YOU TO WRITE RULES FOR TV CHESS GAME"--"Just as though all the Cape Kennedy scientific types didn't have problems enough, now a surrealistic TV show wants their HELP! (HELP! is the name of the column, incidentally.)
Nice thing about it, though, they'll stand to make a nice bundle if they come up with a solution.
It began last September when NBC's "Star Trek" kicked off its first season.
Fertile-minded script writers invented something they called "three dimenstional chess" for the leading characters to have at from time to time."
If you watch the show, you've caught fleeting glimpses of the weird looking board they study in such simulated deep thought.
A Merrit Island (Florida) HELP! reader wrote "TODAY's" public service column asking for a set of three-dimensional chess rules.
There aren't any rules because there isn't any such game", Roddenberry explained.
Then he had a brainstorm.
Why not brainstorm the top scientific and engineering minds in the world?
So Roddenberry turned the tables and asked HELP! to help him.
Any chess-minded TODAY reader who can come up with a workable set of three-dimensional chess rules will be in business with Roddenberry.
First write him at "Star Trek", Desilu Studios, 780 N. Gower, Hollywood 38, California
He will send you a release form to sign. That's protection for him in case duplicate rules are submitted.
The best, most playable set of rules for the game nobody has invented yet will be manufactured, bank-rolled for publicity and promotion by Roddenberry and "Star Trek" and the rules writer gets cut in on the profits.
Go, men, Go!"
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Help, help! Many members have begun sending to me mail addressed to Leonard Nimoy. However, to send his mail to me only delays his receiving it, because I only re-address it to him ℅ NBC - Burbank, California. He asks that the LNNAF members write to him often at NBC because NBC keeps track of the amount of mail he receives; and the more mail he receives, the more aware NBC is made of what a favorite person of the public Leonard Nimoy is!
Many letters have been received inquiring when Mr. Nimoy will return to Desilu to begin filming next season's episodes of "Star Trek"--May 1st is the date!
The AFTRA [American Federation of Television and Radio Artists] strike couldn't have happened at a worst time for us Leonard Nimoy fans because before the strike was called, he was scheduled to appear on an afternoon game show, "You Don't Say" during the week of April 24-28! However, the strike has either postponed his appearance to another time or cancelled [sic] the appearance altogether. On the subject of appearances, there has been a slight discussion about his appearing on the "Pat Boone Show", so I'm appealing to all you members to write to that show ℅ NBC (Burbank) requesting they have him on the show. Important: Please request that they have Leonard Nimoy appear without his makeup, but please express your letter in your own words. Thanks!
[The strike lasted from end of March to April 10, just before the Oscars. Johnny Carson quit The Tonight Show (but mostly to get more money). News team Huntley and Brinkley split over the issue. For Nimoy to miss the show after the strike must have been the result of ripple effects.]
A paperback entitled "Star Trek" has been published by Bantam Books which contains the following seven episodes of "Star Trek" (as Adapted by James Blish): "Charlie's Law", "Dagger of the Mind", "The Unreal McCoy", "Balance of Terror", "The Naked Time", "Miri", and "The Conscience of the King". However, these stories are only adaptations and do not follow the storylines exactly as they appeared on the TV show. The paperback has just be [sic] issued following its second printing and is available at this time in your local stores which carry paperbacks. Should you not be able to find a copy of the book locally and wish to order it directly from the publisher, send 50¢ plus 10¢ handling charge to: Bantam Books - Room 300 - 271 Madison Avenue - New York, New York 10016. You may be interested in knowing that a second "Star Trek" paperback will be published next year.
["Star Trek (1)" came out in January, so we have a second edition already just four months later. I don't know what the run size was, though. There's more on this in Science Fiction Times, which I'll post later.]
The Nimoys recently returned from a short vacation–having driven through Santa Barbara, Carmel, Monterey, and up to San Francisco. The stores were so mobbed with fans that he had to have protection; and fans who recognized him as he drove through the streets after the car. So goes a day in the life of our star.
[And yet Nimoy had almost no one show up when he flew into New York – but that may have been a surprise.]
On the other side of the subject, Dot Records advises that the best way we fans can help get deejays to play selections from the album is to ask by letter, for radio stations very often get annoyed by too many phone calls. So—---write often!
Fans in the New York City area were lucky to have a return visit by Mr. Nimoy on April 20-22. He was there to promote his new album and appeared in many of the large stores there. Then, on April 23, he was in Aqawam, Massachusetts (close to Springfield) at Riverside Park and gave four shows during that day (singing, etc.)
[Some of this trip described in Vulcanalia #5 above]
ODDS AND ENDS: Because of the tremendous mail volume which is received each day at LNNAF Headquarters, may I ask all you members to do me a favor? Please put somewhere on your letters your return address so it will not be necessary to keep the envelope handy or look up your address on the membership records. Thanks!
The Penpal Dept. has been completely reorganized by our Vice-President, Thelda Hall, of Reno, Nevads, and anyone wishing to obtain a copy of the current list or wishing to be added to the list may do so by requesting a copy of it from Thelda and mentioning that you would like to be added to the list–please enclose a stamped, self-addressed envelope with your request, and write to: Miss Thelda J. Hall – LNNAFF Penpal Dept. - P.O. Box 7232 - Reno, Nevada 89502.
There's an excellent article with excellent pictures in the May issue of "Movieland & TV Times"!
Due to popular demand, the recent membership drive which was held by members of the National Chapter (those members who do not belong to another Leonard Nimoy club) is being extended as long as the supply of autographed records lasts. For the benefit of the newer members who are not familiar with the membership drive, anyone in the National Chapter who gets ive new members for the LNNAF receives an autographed copy of the single record entitled, "Theme From Star Trek" (these records are personally furnished by Mr. Nimoy). Members wishing to take part in the drive can obtain the Membership Application forms by writing to LNNAF Headquarters/
[The Leonard Nimoy Pyramid Scheme!]
Special thanks are in order to those members of you who have begun sending stamped-self-addressed envelopes with your letters to me or stamps "beyond the call of duty".
Ray Rutledge, Jr., of Dallas, Texas, telephoned me recently with the news that most of the hobby stores now carry a miniature model of the USS Enterprise. Check your local stores.
I've received many good suggestions lately; and for those of you have inquired about the possibility of ordering T-shirts or sweatshirts carrying a sketch of SPock and lettered "LNNAF", I have looked into the matter and T-shirts (white) would cost about $2 plus a shipping charge and white sweatshirts would cost about $3, plus a shipping charge. The idea is not definite as yet, but I would be interested to hear from you members who are interested in the idea.
I hope all of you were able to catch the TONIGHT SHOW on Apri 19th and the TODAY SHOW on April 21st–Mr. Nimoy's appearances were very entertaining! On the TONIGHT SHOW, he sang "Lost in the Stars", and on the TODAY SHOW, the beginning of "Twinkle, Twinkle Little Earth" was played from the album while the camera took closeups of Leonard Nimoy.
[Again, the appearance on the TONIGHT SHOW is also described in Vulcanalia.]
NBC reports that THE MONKEES series has broken all fan mail records at the networks–in second place: STAR TREK! Good work, you letter writers!
'QUOTE:'
The following items appeared in the "Dallas Times Herald" and may have appeared in your local newspapers, too. If not, I quote them for you:
MUSICAL EARS: Leonard Nimoy, who portrays the unemotional Mr. Spock in NBC-Ch.5's STAR TREK, plans to unbend by preparing a nightclub act as a vocalist. Leonard not only has big ears, but, according to insiders, he also has good ears-for music.
TALENT SEARCH: Talent hunt for a gal to play the regular role of a femme alien in NBC-Ch. 5's STAR TREK has been launched by producer Gene Roddenberry. Leonard Nimoy plays the part of Mr. Spock, an alien in the science-fiction series. Said Roddenberry, "The strange thing is more of the audience identify with the alien than with the earthling regulars."
[I wonder who this "femme alien" was supposed to be…]
Leonard Nimoy is scheduled to appear on the MIKE DOUGLAS SHOW, but I don't have the date [May 2, per Vulcanalia]. Because the MIKE DOUGLAS SHOW is syndicated [not put on by any of the three networks, but sold to any and all affiliate stations], I suggest you keep a close watch in your "TV Guide".
The preparation of the Journal is well underway, and although the deadline for submitting anything for publication is May 31st, the sooner you can send the items in, the better chance there is that room will be available for their incorporation into the Journal. And the sooner everything is received, the sooner the Journal can be issued. I look forward to receiving any items you members wish to contribute to the Journal.
[The next page is a full-page ad for Nimoy's first album; the following two an ad for UNICEF].
[Hope you enjoyed!]
