Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2006 09:32:07 -0400
From: "Michael Walsh" <MJW at press.jhu.edu>
To: <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Coincidence?
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

> eva.whitley at gmail.com 10/25/2006 11:16:49 PM >>>
>Ted White wrote:
>> So tonight as the weekly meeting of my writers group, The Vicious
Circle
>> (so-named by Charles Sheffield decades ago), Richard Moore noticed
the
>> printed copy of Alexis's open letter sitting on my table, and we
fell to
>> discussing recent events.  By way of explaining them, I told him
about
>> Keith Googling Lee in 2002 and what he turned up.
>>
>> "Mighod," said Richard, who is both a SF and mystery fan, but more
of a
>> mystery fan, "I remember this woman who turned up *years* ago at a
>> Bouchercon, claiming to be Fredric Brown's daughter!"  He began
>> describing her to me.  It was Lee -- then Lee Uba.  "I don't think
>> anybody believed her," he said.  "It was just a story."
>>
>> And maybe a story that embarrassed her by 2002, when Keith turned it
up
>> on Rich's on-line fanhistory Outline.
>>
>> --Ted White
>>
>
>And if she was born in 1954, wouldn't she have been too young to have

>served in the Army

Air Force (& Air America) is the claim:

    > Elizabeth Swanson (known in later years as Lee Uba)
      -- granddaughter of SF author Fredric Brown
      -- was in Air Force in early 1970s
      -- since Air Force's covert operation known as "Air America" did
*not*
         officially exist
         >> therefore, she was *not* involved in any U.S. military
activities
         >> she was *not* a radar operator
         >> she was *not* stationed in Cambodia

Rich Lynch removed the passage from his site, but there is copy of it
here: http://www.smithway.org/history/chap1a.html , plus of course The
Wayback Machine (http://www.archive.org/index.php)

> during the Vietnam War era? The troops were out by
>January 1973, and she would have been 18, unless she was born in
January.
>
>I thought she was supposed to be Frederic Brown's granddaughter.

As you'll see further downstream, as it were, Ted corrected himself.

mjw