Rusty Hevelin writes

Our old friend Rusty Hevelin was very much a book-dealing and convention-going fan, and didn’t do any 
writing for fanzines in the forty years we've known him. Every now and then he’d 
dictate something for Gay to type up, when he was a Guest of Honor or toastmaster. 
 But he did go through a fanzine phase when he was younger. 
  
At the back of our Hevelin correspondence file, I found a yellowed old ditto’ed 
fanzine page – half a century old – and by one of those odd coincidences he 
talks in it about a book that I just started reading day before yesterday, T. 
H. White’s Once and Future King. (My book editor Susan Allison sent it; Ace 
just published a new edition.) 

Rusty wrote in the FAPA zine Laundry Mark H-1661, in February 1961: 

“I didn’t get around to reading T.H. White’s book on the Arthurian legend till 
recently. Before I finished it, the Loewe-Lerner-Hart version known as “Camelot” 
opened on Broadway with a record-setting advance sale of over $3,000,000. Reviews 
indicate that despite the creak of rusty armor in the script, the play’s assets 
of spectacle, music, wit and charm give the customers enough that it should 
have a long and successful run . . . 
   
“. . . if you have not read the trilogy you have missed some fun.. Even if you 
no longer read fantasy and science fiction, I know that plenty of you enjoy 
whimsy and humor. White handles them deftly. I have been wild about Benchley 
and Thurber since my first encounter with each. There are numerous places in 
these tales where White easily holds his own with them. Be prepared for some 
dragging episodes (the musical is not alone on this score), but this is the 
sort of thing that Disney at his once-upon-a-time best might have worked into 
a fine and funny film.” 

Joe