From: "Ted White" <twhite8 at cox.net>
To: "WSFA members" <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Conspiracy, was Saturday: National FlyingSaucer Day
Date: Fri, 1 Jul 2005 12:52:41 -0400

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From: "Michael Walsh" <MJW at press.jhu.edu>
To: <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Sent: Friday, July 01, 2005 10:48 AM
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Conspiracy, was Saturday: National FlyingSaucer 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...

What was astonishiong to me was that she did that bit at Midamericon to
Joan Baez's version of "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down."  Most of her
performance there was modified yoga moves.  When I told her I didn't think
it was a great performance, she invited me to be her guest in a DC strip
club and see the uncensored version.  I did.  I was impressed.  It was the
first (and only) time I ever saw a cigarette smoked with that portion of a
woman's anatomy.

--Ted White