Historical note

[Mark Mandel]

My word! My immediate reaction reaction to that name was not at all
professional... that is, not based in my, or her, professional life.
The last name is very unusual, and I know it only in connection with

 the psychological warfare expert and author Paul M. A.
 Linebarger (1913-1966), whose visionary stories as "Cordwainer Smith" are among
 the science fiction field's most haunting achievements.
   (http://www.plokta.com/pnn//stories.php?story=01/11/18/9862904)

... who, I am not surprised to find out, was the father of Marcia
Linebarger Garfinkle.

I believe I also had a brief correspondence with her in my earlier
professional life.

On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 9:35 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:
...
> Ca.1974 at M.I.T., I had occasion to do a similarly-trivial - such
> that I've forgotten what it was - yet meaningful, favor, for a very
> nice girl (well, girl in those days), known, no doubt, to many, here,
> Marcia Linebarger.

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