Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2004 18:47:38 -0500 (EST)
From: "Keith F. Lynch" <kfl at KeithLynch.net>
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Fantasy Mystery
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

All mysteries are fantasies, since in real life detectives don't try
to figure out who committed a crime, they try to figure out how to pin
it on someone regardless of their guilt.

But here are the solutions to three non-crime-related mysteries:

1) The archives of this email list are at http://www.wsfa.org/list/
They contain all but the last two days of postings, indexed by date
and by sender.

2) I only found 21 names of people present at the 1953 Disclave, even
though several sources say 22 people were present.  I just noticed
that the con chair, Bob Briggs, was not on the list.  Presumably he
was present, but didn't bother to write his own name.

I noticed that because I am working on the "fifty years ago" column
for the WSFA Journal, and was trying to figure out whether in 1954 the
club really contained both a Briggs and a Griggs.  If I'm reading the
handwritten minutes correctly, Briggs suggested the club buy $1 worth
of uranium stock, but Griggs nixed the idea.

3) I solved that mystery by doing a Google search on our own site.
Yes, there was a Bob Briggs and a Nelson Griggs in the club at the
same time.

I wonder what that uranium stock would be worth today?