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More than ever, to the benefit of their checkbooks and their readers, crime and mystery writers work at other professions. Britain's Don Rumbelow (The Complete Jack the Ripper) is a London bobby; Los Angeles Cop Joe Wambaugh only recently quit the force. In the tradition of Erie Stanley Gardner, many are lawyers, notably Harold Q. Masur (Bury Me Deep), Francis ("Mike") Nevins Jr. (Publish and Perish), Joe Hensley (A Killing in Gold), and, of course, Englishman Michael Gilbert, creator of the Patrick Petrella series and, be it noted, the author of Raymond Chandler's will. The remarkable...
...least are two different winos I've known. The first one, an elderly gent, insisted on singing every Ray Charles song he knew at the top of his lungs--and off key. Clutching his muscatel for dear life, he fought off three conductors and a plain-clothes cop until the train reached the next station, whereupon wino and muscatel went flying out the door. The other wino was the more genteel type--and she kept me company from D.C. to New York last Christmas. She was a sweet old Southern lady--74 years old, she kept telling me--with...
Washington Correspondent Johanna McGeary accompanied Tiegs from New York to California, spending eight days with her. McGeary too was exposed to Tiegs' grueling life style. Once, while Tiegs and McGeary were in the model's silver Mercedes, an L.A. policeman pulled them over. Says Mc Geary: "The cop was startled when Photographer Walter Iooss, in a car right behind, leaped out and started snapping his Nikon. The poor cop was just doing his duty ticketing the lady with the expired license plates. And TIME happened to be there. Cheryl still got a ticket...
Freshman brick house Julian Mack showed he can do more than sprint as he sailed to a comfortable 30 second victory in the 1000-yd. freestyle. The giant from Glencoe, Ill. returned later to cop an easy first in his native 100-yd. free...
Control. This is the computer's traffic cop. It gets instructions stored in the memory section and interprets them; it regulates the memory and arithmetic-logic sections and the flow of information between them, and orders processed data to move from the memory to the output section...