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From: render@uiucdcsb.CS.UIUC.EDU
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Subject: Re: Spenser for Hire
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Date: Mon, 20-Jan-86 13:34:00 EST
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Written  8:52 am  Jan 15, 1986 by chod@gypsy:
> Does anyone know if Robert Urich or some other star or staff member is of
> Yugoslavian ancestry, or has some other connection to Yugoslavia?  Last
> night's show (1/14) had Spenser pitted against a hood named "Joe Broz".  I am
> pretty sure that character has been on the show before.  Last night I
> remembered that during WWII there was a communist partisan in Yugoslavia
> named "Iosip Broz".  He took the nom de guerre "Tito" and went on to later
> fame under that name.

"Joe Broz" is a character who has appeared in the original Spenser books,
written by Robert Parker.  It is certainly possible that Parker knew who of
Tito's original name.


                                     Hal Render
                                     University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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