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Maybe the book was written before plots like this had been beaten to death by poor imitators of Chandler and Hammet, but today it reads more like a parody of snide tough-guy novels than a true milestone of the genre. Anybody who's read an old mystery novel or seen a few gangster movies will feel he's seen it all before...

Author: By Paull E. Hejinian, | Title: Smart Enough To Be An Asshole | 4/23/1987 | See Source »

...case of Fatty Arbuckle, in which Arbuckle, a famous film comedian, was accused of raping a woman and subsequently killing her by the sheer weight of his enormous bulk rupturing her bladder. It was perfect fodder for the tabloids of the day, but little is known of what Hammet had to do with it. Arbuckle was acquitted...

Author: By Thomas Hines, | Title: A Continental Op | 7/21/1981 | See Source »

Harvard's only victory this season came last Saturday when heavy winds forced cancellation of the scheduled races. The yachtsmen initiated the First Annual Headbasin International Intercollegiate Quarter-Ton Interclub Championships. Hammet, Leggett, Repps, Mike Jacker and co-captain Dave Poor weighed in at over a quarter of a ton and won the event for the Crimson...

Author: By Elizabeth S. Strong, | Title: Sailors Veer off Course in Regattas | 4/8/1976 | See Source »

Students in Mather House voted last week by a narrow margin to select an 11-member panel of Mather students that is empowered to nominate students for the CRR. The Mather panel will meet sometime after Thanksgiving vacation, William H. Hammet '77, a member of the panel, said Monday...

Author: By David B. Hilder, | Title: CRR, Continued | 11/26/1975 | See Source »

...Welfeboreo, New Hampshire; John William James '50 of Birghton: Richard Paul Janaor '49, of Medford; Edward Ellsworth Jones '49 of Buffalo, New York; Alvin Kahn '49 of Upper Montclair, New Jerscy; Louis Frederick Klein, Jr. '49 of West Roxbury; Saul Kravetz '48 of Brooklyn, New York; Benjamin Hammet Lacy '49 of Dubuue, towa; Hugh Gregory Langley '49 of St. Catherine, Ontario, Canada; Christopher Michael Martin '49 of Newark, New Jersery; Joseph Francis Ryan, Jr. '49 of West Roxbury; Paul Sack '48 of Younkers, New York; Eli Jacob Sagau '48 of South Orange, New Jersey; Howard Hugh Schless '46 to Philadelphia...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PBK Chooses Eight Juniors, 30 Graduates | 4/20/1949 | See Source »

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