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Hanshew, T.W.
An American author, journalist and actor, born in Brooklyn, New York. Not much is known about his private life and early years, but it has been discovered that Thomas W. Hanshew already as a 16-year-old had a job in a theatre company where he was given small supporting roles. Later he even got some bigger roles, though without making much of an impression. When he was about 20, he started...
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Parker, Robert B.
Robert Brown Parker was born in Springfield, Massachusetts, where his father was head of a telephone company. Parker graduated from Maine’s Colby College with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1954 and was awarded a Master of Arts degree at Boston University in 1957. He served in the US Army infantry in Korea 1954–56.
After graduating in 1957 he worked at an insurance company and in advertising. His...