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June 1977 Issue
June 1977 Cover
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  • Life on Mars
    David Chandler
  • City University of New York
    Larry Van Dyne
  • And Having Writ, Wrote On
    Caskie Stinnett
  • Mars: From the Atlantic, 1895
    Percival Lowell
  • The Never-Ending Wrong
    Katherine Anne Porter
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Exit Sherlock Holmes/I, Sherlock Holmes

By Martha Spaulding
June 1977 Issue

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