If Holden was around before this movie "Dear whatever. . ." then I am stumped. Maynard says (god, I hate to refer to her "i said i'd never tell, but now i think i'll tell--i must be true to myself and my writing [barf]" book ), that jds saw the names william holden and joan caulfield on a movie marquee and then gave birth to the now famous name of holden caulfied. -- M.E. Pierce Dept. of English/ SFASU http://titan.sfasu.edu/~f_pierceme "and gladly would he lerne, and gladly teche." Chaucer