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Robert Chambers, 62, wanted to scale back his work hours and responsibility. So he left his career in computer services and began selling cars, seeing it as a fun way to stay as busy as he wanted while generating some income. But he quickly grew disillusioned with his new job...
That's when Chambers discovered his calling. He founded Bonnie CLAC (Car Loans and Counseling), a nonprofit that attempts to negotiate fair car prices for the working poor and offers them low-rate loans. Since launching his firm in Lebanon, N.H., five years ago, Chambers has underwritten $10 million in...
Chambers and others like him are an emerging face of philanthropy in the U.S. Individually, they will never have the impact of, say, Bill Gates, whose foundation can lay claim to assets that dwarf the gross domestic product of many not-so-small countries. But collectively, regular people who have...
He was born Frank Morrison Spillane, the son of a Brooklyn barkeep. Raised on the wrong (indeed, only) side of the tracks in Ellzabeth, N.J., he wrote for slick magazines, then shifted to comics, composing the two-page prose fillers that were oddly required by law. During the war he...
Some things Aldrich and screenwriter A.I. Bezzerides kept from the book: a secret message from a dead woman; a scene where Mike slams a desk drawer shut on the fingers of a suspect; the slapping around of an Athletic Club guard; and the ultimate villain (who goes up in flames...