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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...only eight months after his election to eight more years on the bench, Michigan's Supreme Court Justice John D. Voelker, more widely known as best-selling Novelist Robert Trover (Anatomy of a Murder), made up his mind. He will soon resign from the court. "I must either leave the court or abandon writing," explained he. "And I feel the latter course a psychological impossibility [for] a writer who finds himself increasingly immersed in characters taking shape in his mind." To critics of his decision (notably Republican legislators in Lansing) the judge countered with a blunt opinion: "While other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Dec. 7, 1959 | 12/7/1959 | See Source »

ANATOMY OF A MURDER (437 pp.) -Robert Trover - St. Martin's Press...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Case of Luscious Laura | 1/6/1958 | See Source »

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