Someone remembers the story line on *The Single Guy* >So one of the >single guy's friends tells the girl that he (the single guy) is taking her >out to dinner and guess who is gonna be there? JD Salinger. So she gets all >drooly and stuff because of course JD is her favorite writer of all time. >The single guy goes nuts yelling at his friend and explaining to him that >JD Salinger is like a hermit and nobody has seen him in like 50 years. Yes, well, someone else I know (I'll protect the name since it might be a fellow list member) once conspired to place an announcement in their college newspaper that JD was going to turn up and give a brief talk at, of all places, an all-male dorm on a small, southern campus. And yes, some people bought it, including, if I remember right, a man of the cloth. There was much hiding involved I seem to recall. And that's all I'm prepared to say about this at this point in time. --JVO (remaining diplomatic to this day)