barmar@mit-eddie.UUCP (Barry Margolin) (04/15/84)
The original title of "Catch-22" was indeed "Catch-18". Here are the
signature lines of those who sent in correct answers (I received no
incorrect answers), along with any interesting comments they made about
the name change.
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John Hobson
AT&T Bell Labs-Naperville, IL
ihnp4!iwlc6!amigo
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I think it was Catch-18, after the actual section number in Army Regs.
n with best-seller Mila-18. Or so
I recall.
ken perlow
..ihnp4!ihuxq!ken
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Larry Johnson
AT&T Technologies (nee WeCo)
Warrenville, Ill.
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I believe it was "Catch-18", which was rejected because of a possible conflict
with Leon Uris' "Milo 18" (?); "Catch-14" was proposed, but Heller said that
"22 was a funnier number than 14" (not 100% sure the number was 14).
Guy Harris
{seismo,ihnp4,allegra}!rlgvax!guy
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Barry Margolin
ARPA: barmar@MIT-Multics
UUCP: ..!genrad!mit-eddie!barmar