1. In a recent issue of Hal Thinglum's Midwest Wargamers Association Newsletter (MWAN), Hal mentioned the fact that, due to overload, he was considering putting MWAN to rest, permanently. I immediately wrote Hal, indicating that if he was giving up MWAN, perhaps, in his declining years, as his little grey cells were starting to flicker, perhaps held like to focus on a somewhat less strenuous task, that of becoming the editor of the PW REVIEW. The benefits of taking over the REVIEW were numerous: For one, he wouldn't have to mess with putting out well over 100 published pages each issue (I put out only 20). For two, he wouldn't have to enlist people to type for him (no one I know can read, let alone type). For three, he wouldn't have to review all those adulatory letters that come in each month (I haven't gotten a letter in over a year and I'm too lazy to write one myself). For four, he wouldn't have to write descriptions of rules sets he had never played. For five, he wouldn't have to fight off all those firms in the hobby that insist on sending him thousands of freebee figures and rulesbooks and terrain items and texts and other miscellanea (someone once sent me a figure and then changed his mind and demanded that I return it). Instead of jumping at the opportunity to take over the REVIEW, Hal declined. This surprised me until I realized I had caught him during a bad week. He had painted only 2,567 figures that week instead of his usual 5,432; he was somewhat down in the dumps, probably at the nadir of his biorythmic cycle. I'm going to renew my offer next month. Back to PW Review January 1992 Table of Contents Back to PW Review List of Issues Back to MagWeb Master Magazine List © Copyright 1992 Wally Simon This article appears in MagWeb (Magazine Web) on the Internet World Wide Web. Other articles from military history and related magazines are available at http://www.magweb.com