| Summary:
|
From Pat Deveney's database:
Little Listening Post, The.
Other titles: The Little Listening Post at Washington, D.C.
1954--1965 Every few weeks, when the news boils over
Washington, DC.
Editor: Mrs. Walton Concord John.
1/1, 1954-1965.
8 pages, mimeographed (varies). $3.00 for 6 issues. The journal described itself and its interests in ringing tones: "Its Ear is tuned to everything on the Far-out Front, where the winds of uncertainty reign. . . . Everything & everyone is getting VOCAL; every group has its own news sheet; [and] ditto machines, tape recorders, etc. abound -- everyone clamoring for the ears of others! The LLP is a scrutinizer, it catches a sort of recapitulation going on over the Planet -- a burrowing into every unsearched corner -- a 'mopping up' as if we are getting ready to 'move on.' WHAT LIES AHEAD?? Listen in with The Little Listening Post!!!" The journal was the product of Clara John's monthly Flying Saucer club meetings, at least one of which was attended by Thomas Townsend Brown who went on to found NICAP (National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena) in 1956 and led it until he was forced out for financial ineptness. John, whose full birth name is Clara L. John, is the "C.L.J." who was credited in some editions (but not others) of George Adamski's Flying Saucers Have Landed (1953) for editing and "improving" his original manuscript. On this, see the special edition of Saucer News, no. 27, October 1957, on Adamski. A complete run of the journal can be found on AFU Archives for the Unexplained (files.afu.se).
|
