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Dates: during 1980-1989
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News Editor for This Issue: Colin . Boyle '90 Night Editors: Andrew J. Bates '90 Ross G. Forman '90 Susan B. Glasser '90 Spenser S. Hsu '90 Tara A. Nayak '92 Liza M. Velazquez '92 Rebecca L. Walkowitz '92 Editorial Editor: Katherine E. Bliss '90 Feature Editors: Colin F. Boyle '90 Ross G. Forman '90 Sports Editor: Julio R. Varela '90 Photo Editor: Zach M. Schrag '92 Business Editor: Michael S. Harwayne '91 Copy Editor Jennifer L. Greenstein...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Editor for This Issue | 10/6/1989 | See Source »

Raymond Chandler influenced the American detective novel so strongly that even his imitators have imitators. Among the best of the second-generation models is Robert B. Parker, 57, whose private investigator, Spenser, shares Philip Marlowe's gruff chivalry and, like Chandler's "Galahad of the gutter," bears the surname of an Elizabethan literary figure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Capering | 10/2/1989 | See Source »

News Editor for This Issue: Spenser S. Hsu '90 Night Editors: Emily M. Bernstein '90 Jonathan S. Cohn '91 Ross G. Forman '90 Kelly A.E. Mason '92 Tara A. Nayak '92 Rebecca L. Walkowitz '92 Editorial Editor: Colin F. Boyle '90 Feature Editors: Susan B. Glasser '90 Sports Editors: Michael D. Stankiewicz '90-'91 Julio R. Varela '90 Photo Editor: Leor S. Bachar '90 Business Editor: Michael S. Harwayne '91 Copy Editor: Julian E. Barnes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Editor for This Issue: | 9/25/1989 | See Source »

News Editor for This Issue: Susan B. Glasser '90 Night Editors: Jonathan S. Cohn '91 Susan B. Glasser '90 Matthew M. Hoffman '91 Spenser S. Hsu '90 Joseph R. Palmore '91 Features Editors: Jonathan S. Cohn '91 Susan B. Glasser '90 Editorial Editors: Andrew J. Bates '91 Emily M. Bernstein '90 Photography Editor: William H. Bachman '92 Business Editors: Michael S. Harwayne '91 Andrew R. Jassy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Editor for This Issue: | 6/7/1989 | See Source »

Somebody on the Taft University basketball team is shaving points, the rumor goes, and Spenser, the soft-centered hard-guy detective, soon discovers a grubbier scandal. Nobody at Taft will admit it, but the team's star power forward has been passed through his courses for nearly four years despite the fact that he can't read. Spenser is shocked -- he believes in truth, honor and grade-point averages -- and he sets out to discover which lizards, tenured and not, are responsible. The reader puts up his feet and gets comfortable. That's a bad sign. Too much comfort...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bookends: May 15, 1989 | 5/15/1989 | See Source »

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