Date: Fri, 01 Jul 2005 10:48:40 -0400
From: "Michael Walsh" <MJW at press.jhu.edu>
To: <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Conspiracy, was Saturday: National Flying Saucer Day

> samlubell at verizon.net 7/1/2005 10:20:07 AM >>>
>Actually, some sort of tribute to "A Century of Robert Heinlein" would

>make sense.  He did write a lot of good short stories.

I wonder if thses folks: http://www.heinleincentennial.com/ will try to
track down one Patia von Sternberg...  oh dear, most of you are way to
young...

Henlein as MidAmercon (1976 Worldcon, aka BigMac) GoH attended the
Masquerade and during the time when the judges went off to do what ever
judges do there was... entertainment by a well known East coast con
fan...

"Mr. and Mrs. Heinlein were seated in the front row. Next to them was a
man of comparable age resplendent in U.S. Army dress uniform wearing
general's epaulets. It was Mr. Heinlein's brother. The dancer, Patia von
Sternberg, did her dance all the way to what is termed "floor work."
Mid-performance, she threw her brassiere toward the Heinleins, who both
were laughing and enjoying themselves. Mrs.
Heinlein took the bra and arranged it across Mr. Heinlein's shoulders,
arms through the straps, so that he too could have epaulets to match his
brother's."
<http://heinleinsociety.org/newsletters/July2004/July04NL.pdf>

It should be noted in her real life, at the time, Patia was a
stripper.

She was also the creator of The Secret Hand Grip of Fandom...

mjw