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Legal Knight. The opening situation is intriguing enough. Anson Page, the lawyer hero, is living quietly in Manhattan with an apartment too expensive and a wife too intelligent for his own good. He has finally worked up to a kind of wary chumminess with the senior partner of his law firm, and has almost domesticated his fear of failure (sometimes, though, the beast still growls dangerously from the chimney corner). This somewhat nervous idyl is broken by a man Anson Page has never even met-a great and aging American novelist called Garvin Wales, literary master of Southern sordidness...
...Regular Fellow. Fisher can be adamant. Most notable example: his stand against church marriage of the divorced, whether the "innocent party" or not. When, in 1950, the then Queen's niece, Lady Anson, innocent party in a divorce, was to marry Prince George of Denmark. Fisher ordered the clergyman who was to have performed the ceremony not to do so, also advised the Queen not to attend. The wedding was performed by a Danish Lutheran minister while the Queen discreetly cooled her heels in a drawing room...
Checking Account. In Ada, Ohio, after National Bank President Anson Gear was held up at gun point while thieves robbed his bank, the board of directors conducted a special audit to determine the losses ($7,037), then filed charges that President Gear had embezzled $17,500 over the past eight years...
...Anson, manager of the Chicago Cubs nearly 75 years ago, once said, "The team that makes the fewest mistakes wins the most games." If Anson's statement holds true, the freshman baseball team will not only win its fifth game of the year tomorrow at M.I.T. against the Tech freshmen, but should win almost all its games in the rest of the season...
...raid sends the Japs scurrying and allows Kent to save his skin. One man escapes with him, his young orderly, Anson. The two men make a long hike to safety, but one night, with shells and men screaming around him, Kent puts his arms around Anson. Before Captain Kent's war is over, he has sunk himself in a degrading attachment, killed a man who threatened to expose him, and made a fainthearted try at suicide...