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We raise a glass to Mickey Spillane, the hard-boiled wordsmith born March 9, 1918. Spillane introduced the world to Mike Hammer, one of fiction\\u2019s toughest gumshoes, in 1947, and detective fiction was never the same. The unique blend of sex and violence, powered by Spillane\\u2019s terse prose, enthralled readers and led to adaptations on television, the big screen, and on radio. We\\u2019ll hear Larry Haines as Mike Hammer in That Hammer Guy in \\u201cThere\\u2019s Something About a Dame\\u201d (first aired on Mutual on March 31, 1953) and \\u201cWhat You Don\\u2019t Know About Dames\\u201d (first aired on Mutual on April 28, 1953).