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in pencil in top margin [Mar 2, 1980, Hecht, Mike]

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  Josh, if these tapes don't find their way into the public domain during my lifetime, I'm asking it be your responsibility to get them in during yours crossed out:  lifetime--or your children's.
  Some years ago, I shared with you an anecdote about the first time Conroy came to our house...in 1947, in our 4th floor walk up at  39 East Division St, when mother, (Terry) and I were newlyweds.
   The publication of the 2 articles in today's Sunday Sun-Times prompts:

1. This request. Though most of you won't have enough money to buy the Jack Conroy Reader ($15). you can ask your library to stock the book. Do so! And read it. That's the best way you and I can honor Conroy...at least till his next autographing party. 2. The anecdote attached. Conroy and Studs may have forgotten the occasion, and I'm the only one really privy to the incident. If Henry Kisor wants to use it, he has my permission. Jack Conroy is a big, husky, jovial man with the zest for life flowing out of him in all directions. He has a booming voice. When he talks softly, which is seldom, you can hear him in the next county. Studs was wrong about 1 thing, however, in his article. Conroy was not (and is not) larger than life. It only seems that way. Because he is giant-hearted. crossed out: Ma Joad woulda summarized him: He is one of those