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Traffic growled and snarled, rising at times to a machine-gun rata-tat-tat, while pedestrians were scuttling about with that desperate ratlike urgency characteristic of all big American cities, but which reaches its ultimate in New York.

Fritz Leiber

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Fritz Leiber
Age: 81 †
Born: 1910
Born: December 24
Died: 1992
Died: September 5
Film Actor
Film Writer
Journalist
Novelist
Playwright
Poet
Science Fiction Writer
Stage Actor
Writer
Chicago
Illinois
Fritz Reuter Leiber
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Fritz Leiber Junior
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Snarled
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