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...biggest thing that ever happened to him. For a time, he and his gnawing terror promise to dominate Clock, but he is destined for a fictional fate worse than death-to become a symbol of the brevity of life and life-in-death. His friend, ancient Judge Clane, is a Claghorn who never made the U.S. Senate but did get to the House of Representatives. He drinks bourbon and talks Bourbon: "Imagine a future where delicate little white girls must share their desks with coal-black niggers in order to learn to read and write...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Member of the Funeral | 9/22/1961 | See Source »

MURDER UP MY SLEEVE-Erie Stanley Gardner-Morrow ($2). One death, by a dart from a Chinese sleeve gun, with suspects that include members of San Francisco's social set, Chinatown characters, and the detective himself (who is Terry Clane, successor to Author Gardner's famed Perry Mason). First rate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fiction: Recent Books: Dec. 6, 1937 | 12/6/1937 | See Source »

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