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3 unusual facts about Lawrence E. Spivak


Lawrence E. Spivak

Spivak's office was at the Sheraton-Park Hotel in Washington, D.C., which was also his home.

Spivak published inexpensive digest-sized paperback editions, often abridged, of works by authors including Margery Allingham, Agatha Christie, Erle Stanley Gardner, Dashiell Hammett, Ellery Queen, Georges Simenon, Rex Stout and Cornell Woolrich.

Mercury Publications

Mercury Publications (aka Mercury Press) was a magazine publishing company, owned and operated by Lawrence E. Spivak, which mainly published genre fiction in digest-sized formats.


Blake Ross

In 2005, he was nominated for Wired magazine's top Rave Award, Renegade of the Year, opposite Larry Page, Sergey Brin and Jon Stewart.

Indian Rights Association

The management of early Indian Rights Association's programs fell almost entirely to five men, all of whom had lengthy careers with the IRA: Herbert Welsh, Matthew Sniffen, and Lawrence E. Lindley, active in Philadelphia; and Charles C. Painter and Samuel M. Brosius, agents and lobbyists in Washington D.C.

John L. Spivak

Spivak also investigated the financial activities of Charles E. Coughlin, the Catholic radio priest who founded the National Shrine of the Little Flower in Royal Oak, Michigan.

Though he cited opposition to fascism as his primary motivation as a journalist, Spivak cooperated with the Soviet KGB in the 1930s, perhaps from as early as 1932.

Lawrence E. Blume

He is a Visiting Research Professor at IHS Vienna and a member of the external faculty at the Santa Fe Institute, where he has served as Co-Director of the Economics Program and on the Institute's steering committee.

Lawrence E. Fouraker

Lawrence E. Fouraker (October 28, 1923 - December 20, 1998) was the sixth dean of the Harvard Business School (1970–1980).

Lawrence E. Roberts

They had four children: Dorothy Roberts McEwen, Lawrence E. Roberts II, Sally-Ann Roberts Craft Nabonne, and Robin René Roberts.

Lawrence Knox

Lawrence E. Knox (1836–1873), British Army officer and founder of The Irish Times


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