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SIFTED inconspicuously through the Yonkers public schools, so her publishers tell us, Margaret Halsey then went to Skidmore College, where she was very thin, very earnest, and addicted to writing ‘how true’ in margins. She took her M.A. at Teachers College, worked for a time in the office of Simon and Schuster, and then married her professorial husband Henry, who made this book possible.