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“Mailer Sells U.S. the Brooklyn Bridge.” Article by Sharon Churcher. New York, 29 March 1982, 9. Snippet explaining how Mailer wrote to James Michener, who was on a committee that advised the postal service on commemorative stamps, recommending that the Brooklyn Bridge be given a stamp: “God, I think it’s a lovely piece of steel . . . it would make a honey of a stamp.”