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in pencil at top of page Rideout, Walter greeting card Happy Holidays from the Rideouts

   Sorry to have missed Bard Conroy's performance last Thursday.   I'll bet it charmed all savage beasts and breasts.
   Two months ago I heard from the Dolphin editor at Doubleday, who wanted to know whether they should publish underlined:  The Disinherited in that series.  (I'm "Consultant in American Literature" for Anchor.  What a title!)  I wrote back strongly urging Dolphin to publish it, but they finally decided not to on the grounds that they could not be sure to sell 10,000 copies right off the bat.  Maybe not that soon could they do it, but I'd argued that the book would be valuable for the courses in 

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