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Making a weak attempt to get back on the subject:

So I'm listening to my Billy Joel collection (no, this isn't the part
where you respond) and remembering his mention of the Catcher in the
Rye.  Verses were done by year and here are the verses leading up to it:

1949:  harry truman, doris day, red china, johnny ray, south pacific,
walter winchell, joe dimaggio...

1950:  joe mccarthy, richard nixon, studebaker, television, north korea,
south korea, marilyn monroe...

1951:  rosenbergs, H bomb, sugar ray, panmunjom, brando, the king and i,
and THE CATCHER IN THE RYE...

Sooooo, think any of these subjects (which at least Joel considered to
be important in American history) influenced Catcher?  Sure are several
phonies lurking about there.

Just a thought....

Brian

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