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First published in Great Britain by Hamish Hamilton 1959 Published in Penguin Books 1963
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The extract from The Vicious Circle: The Story of the Algonquin Round Table, by Margaret Case Harriman, is reprinted by permission of Rinehart & Company, Inc., New York.
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