Hard-Boiled Eggheads

Fleeting mentions of 'The Chronicle' in pulp fiction

By DON TROOP

She was a nice-looking dame, for 41. And smart, too. Maybe a little too smart. When writers wanted to make it clear that someone had brains, they'd use her. They'd drop her name right into the story, smooth as buttermilk: The Chronicle of Higher Education. Just like that. And then they'd never...