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...When Dougal comes among these people, as director of "human research" in Mr. Druce's textile firm, the tangled fabrics of their lives come suddenly and bewilderingly apart. Dixie Morse, who is working nights at a cinema in order to save money for a model bungalow, refuses to sleep any longer with Humphrey Place, and he, in turn, leaves her at the altar. Mr. Weedin, the personnel manager, looks into Dougal's bewitched eyes and at "the alarming bones of his hands" and suffers a nervous breakdown. Mr. Druce himself, suspecting that Dougal is a police informer...
...really the Devil who is speaking so caddishly through Humphrey. The Devil in this incarnation is known as Dougal Douglas, or occasionally as Douglas Dougal, and he comes equipped with a crooked right shoulder, a clawlike right hand, and two small bumps on his head where a plastic surgeon has removed the horns. When he looks at people, he is "like a succubus whose mouth is its eyes." In the short span of this hilarious novel, Douglas the Devil coaxes into mortal sin not only Humphrey Place but most of the first citizens in the South London district of Peckham...
...year-old event will be old home week for Nick in more ways than just this. Carmen Ragonese, a teammate at new Hampshire University, will play for the North, and the trainer for the Blue will be Dartmouth's Tony Dougal, who was line coach at new Hampshire when Nick was there...
Since 1934, according to proceedings instituted in Trenton's Chancery Court, Mr. Kenny has spent much time ghosting a two-volume legal tome to sell for $30 under the title of Dougal Herr on Marriage, Divorce and Separation in New Jersey. His pay at first was $40 a week, was later reported at $50 and $60. In addition his author-employer, Advisory Master in Chancery Dougal Herr, gave him a 40% stock interest in a firm called Legal Publications, Inc. of Hoboken, formed to publish and sell the book...
...Ghost Kenny, an Iowa-trained lawyer by profession, had visions of much better things. Last week, as 3,000 copies of Dougal Herr on Marriage, etc. were going through the bindery, Author Herr got a temporary restraining order to prevent the sale of his own book...