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Murder Ink: The Mystery Reader's Companion. "Perpetrated" by Dilys Winn (Workman Publishing; 522 pages; $14.95 hardcover, $7.95 paper). For devotees of mysteries, thrillers and spy stories, this is the unputdownable reference work and ultimate argument settler. How many of those "little gray cells" did Hercule Poirot have? (One trillion.) Nero Wolfe's actual weight? (One-seventh of a ton.) Which British poet laureate and which U.S. President wrote murder stories? (C. Day Lewis and Abraham Lincoln.) With 150 contributions about crime writers, cops, critics, scientists, ex-spies, a stoolie, a butler who didn...
Other testimony revealed, in at least one instance, exactly where in the Capitol Kim was headed. Nan Elder, an aide to Kansas Republican Representative Larry Winn Jr., recalled that in 1972 a Korean had dropped an envelope off in her boss's office and that she opened it, at Winn's request, to find "more money than I've ever seen in my life." She tracked the man down at another Congressman's office, and he returned to pick up the rejected gift. Elder has identified the Korean from a selection of 14 pictures...
...there and nod, but I'm thinking, "Joe, what are you feedin' me? Tommy Winn ain't here no longer, but Chris Doherty is, and Bob Kinchen is, and a few others...
Captain Billy Emper led a cast of four Harvard returnees from last season's all-league squad. Among them were tight end Bob McDermott, running-back Tommy Winn, and linebacker Tommy Joyce. Joyce was also named on Saturday to the All-ECAC squad, the only Crimson gridder to achieve that honor...
...Baggott's interception at 6:32 gave Harvard an opportunity to get back into the game, giving the Crimson life at the Eli 20. Runs by Tom Winn and Kubacki provided a first-and-goal situation at the eight. But the drive ultimately fell six inches short...