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From: wilson_3@h-sc1.UUCP (bradford wilson)
Newsgroups: net.tv
Subject: Re: Spenser for Hire
Message-ID: <882@h-sc1.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 24-Jan-86 15:34:41 EST
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Posted: Fri Jan 24 15:34:41 1986
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> 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 appears regularly in Robert B. Parker's Spenser detective
books; he is not a creation of the scriptwriter or TV land. I suppose you'd
have to ask the author about Iosip.

                                     Wombat .:.
aka h-sc1!wilson_3@harvard

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