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Tough investigators are concentrated mostly in New York and in California, the Olduvai Gorge of the chivalrous gumshoe. By far the best known are the West Coast trio of Hammett's Sam Spade, Chandler's Marlowe and Ross Macdonald's Lew Archer. Occasional readers of the form tend to confuse Ross with John D. MacDonald and Gregory Mcdonald. The first was born Kenneth Millar in 1915 and died three years ago of Alzheimer's disease. The second is 69 and lives in Florida, as does his popular P.I. Travis McGee, the "tinhorn knight on a stumbling Rosinante from Rent...
...George MacDonald Fraser...
Harry Flashman, a flamboyant but minor villain in Thomas Hughes' 19th century novel Tom Brown's School Days, moved to center stage in George MacDonald Fraser's comic-historical novels of imperial adventure. Previous volumes placed Flashman, now a mature, hard-drinking rogue, in and around the Crimean War, the African slave trade and the American gold rush. With great panache he became involved with figures ranging from Bismarck and Abraham Lincoln to Queen Victoria and Lola Montez...
Gallo has long maintained that no matter who actually discovered the virus, his lab was first to grow large quantities of it; this tricky step, he insists, was crucial to developing a workable blood test. "We had the science first," says Acting Assistant Secretary of Health Donald Macdonald. "We feel strong in our position." But mass-producing the virus "doesn't matter," counters Lipsey. "What matters is who made the invention first...
Third Period--5, H, Smith 27 (Taylor, MacDonald) 6:31; 6, H, Andy Janfaza 3 (Jerry Pawloski, Peter Chiarelli) 16:04; 7, H, Smith 28 (unassisted) 17:05. Penalties--Mathias, D, (interfering with the goalie) 5:02; Benning, H, (tripping) 9:17; Rob Ohno, H, (hooking...