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in pencil in top margin Hecht, Mike [Mar 2, 1980] 4. [[underlined: THE WIFE OF THE BOOK EDITOR

  It was the summer of 1947.   The campaign was on to convince Henry Wallace to run for President of the U.S.A. on a 3rd party ticket..and   to roll up a respectable vote for him if he decided to run (which, as you know, he did in 1948 as the Progressive Party candidate).
   Writers and Artists For Wallace was formed to get writers and artists -- creative and performing -- on the bandwagon.  Mother/ Terry and I were among the organizers.
   A public rally was held somewhere, near North or in the Coop.  (I don't remember where).  Conroy, who was then working for the Encyclopedia Brittanica, if I remember correctly, and Nelson Algren were among the speakers.   Musta been 300-500 in the audience.  Nothing spectacular, but a good rally.   The most memorable thing, for me, crossed out:  that came out of it was Algren answer to this question from the floor during the question-and-answer period: