Word: tanners
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...popular T shirt among the town's teen-agers proclaims: HAPPINESS is CHALDEA IN YOUR REAR-VIEW MIRROR. Even 30 years ago, youngsters did their best to escape the Midwestern farming community as soon as they graduated from high school. John Marshall Tanner, fiftyish, was no exception. Returning now for the first time, the former football hero finds the town of Chaldea little changed: as ever, skulduggery, greed and hypocrisy thrive...
...Tanner, a lawyer turned private investigator in San Francisco, has come back home to settle the future of the family farm with his nonfarming siblings. The 320-acre spread is coveted by a clutch of corporations, and the family is divided on whether to sell. The only kinsman making real money from the acreage is Tanner's nephew Billy, raising bumper crops of marijuana on the back 40. An embittered Viet Nam veteran and victim of dioxin burns, Billy has succeeded in exposing several of Chaldea's leading villains. When he is found hanging from a tree, town...
...love, uncovers some long-suppressed secrets, and puts Billy's pregnant lady on the road to social security. Things occur without apparent order but with the haphazard blur of ripening crops and turning leaves, as Midwest-raised Author Stephen Greenleaf knows they should. As for Investigator Tanner, in his fourth fictional appearance, he is once again the small-town boy making good, and better, and better...
...offenses. In a previous summer position, such a man proved this to me I'm writing to urge fellow undergraduates and all women to be wary of early signs of harassment subjugation, degradation and exploitation in their summer position. Some Harvard traditions are meant to be broken. Suzanne M.F. Tanner...
...Aldrich, Dart. 1 1-0 1.000 2 0.000 Marchese, Har. 1 1-0 1.000 5 1.29 Tanner, Navy 2 1-0 1.000 5 2.08 Low'nberg, Yale 3 1-0 1.000 4 2.08 Rinaldi, Penn 3 3-0 1.000 7 2.25 Michael, Navy...