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June 1941
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EDITORIAL
Several professionals have been most helpful in the past in the submission of articles and essays on the sport. We are now delighted to introduce a new section in this issue to be known as "The Master's Voice". We have accepted the idea as well as the title from a professional. In it we hope to publish signed essays from many of our professionals. These will be accepted in any size from 100 to 1,500 words. They may be technical, controversial, discursive and even blasphemous. Our only restriction will be against dealing in personalities.
Submit your ideas. The subjects are limitless. Do you feel that a certain parry is being overlooked? Do you favor the French to the Italian weapon or vice versa? Have you developed a technique in training or fencing against lefthanders? Do you think the toe shot in epee worth the risk? Should you raise the forward toe or heel first in the lunge? How do you teach the lunge? Which parry should be taught first and why?
Pencil and paper is all that you need to get started. And don't worry about your writing. We have a staff of four rewrite men who could smooth out a doctor's prescription into an essay upon gastronomics.
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Our next issue will feature the results of the National Championships. Midway in the season we had trepidations that our 1940-1941 Championships might be pallid affairs due to the call to the colors under the Defense Program. Not at all. Many of our fencers have entered the Army or the Navy, but they are as ready as ever to enter the fencing lists this month.
It is rumored that a bomber has been requisitioned to bring an epee team from a Southern camp. Commanders, Captains, Lieutenants, Sergeants and Privates will answer the lure of the swords again. We shall see khaki uniforms changed to white. Guns may be stacked in the lobbies but the ancient ring of steel upon steel will again be heard. It should be another good Nationals.
