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   I know a chap in Ann Arbor, where I taught and Ph.Ded for six years, whom you might be interested in.  He's in economics, leftish but cautious, intelligent, and has been working on employee-employer relations in the Detroit auto plants for several years.  If you feel he could be of any service to you, I'd be glad to tell him to get in touch wit you.
   I haven't had a chance at Cunningham's book.  Apparently Nathan Asch ( underlined:  NR ) doesn't agree with you.   Did you read Edward Anderson's underlined:  Hungry Men ?  I think that boy got rather a bad deal from underlined:  New Masses, just as Algren did from the underlined:  New Republic.  I don't think Algren understood the book very well when he reviewed it in underlined:  NM.  It's true that Anderson doesn't have his characters going left at the end, but are they that sort of characters and isn't it just as well that we know (so that we can combat it) that there are guys who'd prefer to play pieces before the American Legion than fight?  Besides Boots was a good communist and the reader comes from the book admiring him more than any other character.   And the characters, all of them, were alive and, no doubt, existed.
   How I rave on.
   I did appreciate your letter and hope to hear more from you, but also realize you must be even busier than I.

Best luck with everything. Harvey Webster