Norman Mailer: Works and Days

Letter to the Editor

Mailer's letter complaining of inaccuracies in Red Smith's 27 September NYHT column (62.15) about the Patterson-Liston aftermath: 'I was neither drunk nor offensive.' Reprinted in Pieces and Pontifications (14.3) — actually 82.x — see notes.

Letter to the Editor. New York Herald Tribune, 28 September 1962. Letter.

Mailer complains of inaccuracies in Red Smith‘s 27 September column (62.15) about the PattersonListon boxing match aftermath. “I was neither drunk nor offensive.” Rpt: 14.3.

Lennon & Lennon: 62.17a
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