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76Atlas Foundation Acts to Restore Yonkers Boxer’s Dignity
Shamus O'Brien, touted as "Yonkers Favorite" when the popular lightweight Irish boxer battled numerous champions and served as a trial horse for up-and-coming youngsters, will finally have his dignity restored. He died in 1959 without as much as a grave marker. The Atlas Foundation is acting now to restore his long lost dignity.
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72John Connolly: An Author You Don't Want to Miss
My husband actually recommended John Connolly to me and I'm so glad he did. I started with his first book, Every Dead Thing. Once I started reading, I couldn't put it down. I just had to know what was going to...
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73Irish Boxer's Dignity Restored in Yonkers After Half a Century
Tombstone for Michael J. Hogan AKA Shamus O'Brien donated by Artists Memorial Monuments through the Dr. Theodore A. Atlas Foundation and Ring 8 Veterans Boxers Association of New York.. It was installed recently in St. Joseph's Cemetery in Yonkers....
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70Discover Harold Adams, the mystery writer who stirred the dust
Carl Wilcox would be the first to tell you he was a bum. An ex-con who was homeless, a drifter, a drinker and eventually called the murder man, might earn the bum label. Harold Adams created Carl Wilcox and...
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69Book Reviews and Hard Boiled Detectives: Shamus In the Green Room
A shamus, a surfboard, a green room, and murder. The life and films of Dashiell Hammett make a good foundation for an exciting multi-plot suspense novel.
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67The Little Yellow Bird. Part 21 . My Favorite Actor Is Robert De Niro.
The Little Yellow Bird talks about her favorite actor Robert De Niro.
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62What Is Steampunk to Me
A very common thing to happen to me is after telling someone I am into steampunk, is the inevitable question what is steampunk? Having been involved with in the community for over a year now, I feel very...
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59M is for Mystery Writing
The second and likely the best of the series of Alphabet Murders with PI Kinsey Milhone, this crime novel won both the 1985 Private Eye Writers Of America Shamus Award and the Anthony Award For Best Novel of the year in crime. I never read any of...
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55Liberal Dems receive memo, its all a go
Are democrats working off memo's from the white house? Are they taking cues from Obama? Is bashing going to lead to their very downfall? and failures? I am sure as my name is Harvard Shamus, that the...
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