The Dame Walked In and Gave Me a Monologue Even Longer Than Her Dynamite Gams

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Adam Bernstein's obit of brass-knuckled crime writer Mickey Spillane includes this left-field info nugget.

Survivors include his third wife, Jane Rodgers Johnson, a former beauty queen 30 years his junior; and four children from the first marriage.

He also carried on a long epistolary flirtation with Ayn Rand, an admirer of his writing.

I just scanned Reason for some reference of this insanity, and all I found was a comment by "Jason" on a two-year old H&R thread.