Merril-approved 1959 stories: Davidson, Davis, De Vet & Dickson

The last time we mined stories from the Honorable Mentions list at the back end of Judith Merril's Year's Best SF: Fifth Annual Edition, we read stories by four people whose names began with "C" and with whose work I was not very familiar. Today we've got some Merril-approved "D"s and two of them are pretty famous writers whose work I have read, Avram Davidson and Gordon Dickson, while two of them, Chan Davis and Charles V. De Vet, are not very famous and I don't think I've ever read anything by them.To give these tales a shot yourself, use the handy links in the above paragraph to be carried magic-carpet-like to the scans of the stories I am reading."The Woman Who Thought She Could Read" by Avram Davidson This story debuted in F&SF alongside the short version of Fritz Leiber's "The Silver Eggheads;" I read the book version of The Silver Eggheads back in 2022 and thought it pretty bad. "The Woman Who Thought She Could Read" would be reprinted in Davidson collections and in anthologies…