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...Detective Sergeant Joe Wambaugh revealed in two bestselling novels, The New Centurions and The Blue Knight, the life of a Los Angeles police officer is tough. Now it is even tougher for Wambaugh, the celebrity cop. Prisoners keep asking for his autograph. The guys at the precinct are forever drilling him about which character in what book is actually who in real life. That is perhaps one reason why Wambaugh this time chose a "factual novel"−real names and all−in the manner of Truman Capote's In Cold Blood...
Hounded by newsmen and autograph seekers wherever he goes, he has taken to holing up in his hotel room on road trips. At home, he avoids the crowds by parking his car in the stadium tunnel instead of the players' parking...
...many of those people straining to get the Massachusetts Democrat's picture or autograph will be very upset if their man, Wallace, does not head that magic ticket. One can only imagine what a Wallace-Kennedy ticket will look like to blacks in Roxbury...
When Margaret Court finishes each match in this week's stop on the Virginia Slims women's professional tennis tour at the Boston Harbor Marina Tennis Club in Squantum--she lets her poker face relax into a smile for a few autograph seekers and then walks into the carpeted press room behind the grandstand...
...Symphony Hall to make enough money to keep him in booze and food for another three months in the hills. But I once ran into him by the Post Office on Mt. Auburn Street, and he was real nice, even remembering how I'd gotten him to autograph a copy of Wrong End of the Rainbow so I could give it to a friend. He also sat still to let me take some pictures. Tom Rush sings other people's songs well, and I sure can't fault him for that. Because it's just enough to keep...