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Daily Mirror

The Times’ Larry Harnisch takes us back to 1950s L.A. The latest: “The poor thing died as hardboiled as she had lived: Renting a junky room in an old house that had been cut up into apartments. The landlord said she’d been sick for the last week. He was another writer, like her, and I wonder if he took her in because he felt sorry for her.”

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