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A real gimlet is half gin and half Rose's lime juice and nothing else.

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Raymond Chandler
Age: 70 †
Born: 1888
Born: July 23
Died: 1959
Died: March 26
Novelist
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Screenwriter
Writer
Chicago
Illinois
Raymond Thornton Chandler
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