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Elsie Kachel Stevens is said to be---and I accept the scholarship as accurate---the model for the Mercury Head on that coinage.  They tell me that certain employees of the Hartford Insurance Company, of which Wallace Stevens was a vice president, used to razz him about having Mrs. Stevens' face in their pockets.  Apparently, he did not recognize their lame attempts at humor.  I wonder how many of them ultimately had to seek other employment.