One night, based on my wife’s question about if and when George C. Scott had died, I followed Wikipedia links to Tony Randall, Jack Klugman, Brett Somers, Charles Nelson Reilly, Gene Rayburn, Bert Convy, Bobby Van, and Elaine Joyce - Bobby Van’s widow. (If you’re wondering, the clear theme was my rabid viewership of mid 1970s CBS game shows.)
Amazingly, it said Elaine Joyce dated J.D. Salinger for several years before marrying Neil Simon - who knew? I really have abandoned my earlier passion for pop culture trivia!
That revelation led to more clicks and discovering this 1951 Salinger quote on literary influences:
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