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...Marilyn the Wild, Jerome Char-yn's ninth novel, father questing becomes a bizarre and moving search-and-destroy mission. Isaac Sidel, the flintiest, least corrupt, most overbearing cop in New York, is a self-appointed patriarch of the Lower East Side. For 20 years he has kept his microcosm free of outside influence. But too many people now find it hard to breathe when he is around...
Claudine and Sabich met at a 1972 celebrity ski race in Bear Valley, Calif. Friends say Sabich built his sumptuous $250,000 timber and stone house at exclusive Starwood, three miles west of Aspen, expressly for Longet. Sabich, the son of a Placerville, Calif., cop, finished a highly respectable fifth in the slalom at the Grenoble Olympics in 1968, turned pro in 1971, and started earning big money. His prizes alone topped $50,000 in 1972, and he pulled in at least that much in endorsements for everything from ski products to coffee...
...appeared to be his friendship with Jackson, a college classmate, Eaves seemed totally unqualified to command the city's 1,500-man police force, then struggling ineffectively against a crime surge that had made Atlanta one of the homicide capitals of the U.S. But today the top cop is being cheered more than he is being jeered-even by some of his harshest early critics. Says Hal Gulliver, editorial page editor of the Atlanta Constitution, which vehemently opposed his appointment: "Eaves must be doing something right...
Charlie, a stout, perspiring private cop who works at Logan, said that his job there was "to guard the stewardesses," and he winked. Then more soberly he said that most stewardesses are respectable married women and that "only 25 per cent or so are quote unquote The Stewardesses." Charlie would like to be a steward for Delta, but he said he is not sexy enough...
Despite the statistics, the job of any Harvard cop is far from that of a TV cop. "A police officer in Cambridge is likely to run into a violent crime about once every 25 days," says Captain Jeffrey S. Kahn. "Much of what an officer does is routine, not like Starsky and Hutch bombing around all over. I really admire Kojak, because he can always find a parking spot. Christ, I never can. Most police work just isn't like television...