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in the same office - Howard Wolf - and it is a relief to have someone like him around to help counteract some of the high-pressure personalities we have to cope with -

 "The ship & The Flame" was postponed to May 17 - after it got caught in the printer's strike -

I hope it won't be postponed again - since the people who can afford to pay three dollars for a novel these days are the kind who leave the cities and its bookstores far behind when the weather starts warming up - Howard tells me you are working up another anthology. Good luck with it -

 By the way, another former contributor of yours is one of my new colleagues - Syd Tennenbaum.

Like Howard, he helps make the air around the office easier to breathe - Too bad we haven't access to the fine print shop Ayer's has in its office building - we might start a magazine. Seems to me that we need some new little magazines to save modern writing from its present doldrums -