Word: hansen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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NCAA 100-Yard Backstroke Results: 1. Dave Berkoff, Harvard, 48.20; 2. Jay Mortenson, Stanford, 48.62; 3. Richard Hughes, Princeton, 49:06; 4. Erik Hansen, Iowa St., 49.40; 5 Andy Gill, Texas, 49:42; 6. Glenn Trammel, Kansas, 49:69; 7. Scot Johnson, Arizona...
...former jewel thief who has done time at a Louisiana penitentiary, should wind up working at the New Orleans mortuary owned by his brother-in-law Leo. Why is it, Leo wonders aloud, that every time they get a call to collect a corpse from the National Hansen's Disease Center at Carville, Jack calls in sick? Is he afraid of leprosy or what? The next thing Jack knows, he is driving the firm's hearse to a local soup kitchen and picking up a Roman Catholic nun who will oversee the transfer of a body from the Carville hospital...
Then all the dummies went back into suitcases. Off to one corner, David Hansen, a hairpiece designer from Chicago, was packing up Eric, who looked just like David Hansen -- same hair, same beard, same face, same clothes. "I drive around a lot with him, and we play with people on the street," David said. "Driving around is my hobby anyway, so I needed somebody along. I have a custom Corvette, and I take off the top and turn up the radio, and he keeps time with the music...
Location is as important to detective fiction as it is to the real estate business. The glitz centers of the Sunbelt offer the irresistible drama of drug traffic played against a background of pastel, stucco and palm fronds. Joseph Hansen (Fadeout, A Smile in His Lifetime, Gravedigger) offers an alternative to the macho, down-at-the-heels stereotype. He is David Brandstetter, a Southern California insurance investigator who is affluent, well dressed and homosexual. This subgenre is bicoastal; see George Baxt's novels, beginning with A Queer Kind of Death. The protagonist is a gay New York City police detective...
...other Government accounts. Funds were allegedly used in part to develop computer software and purchase up to $500,000 worth of ammunition. Along with Beggs, who was then a company director, the indictment names lower-level ! officials: Ralph Hawes, division general manager, David McPherson, program director, and James Hansen, assistant director...