Word: enger
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Four Geniuses & a Dolt. The book begins in epilogue with grey-eyed, whey-faced Edward Enger lying gravely ill on a bed in his mansion after a coronary attack. His wife is beside the bed and beside herself: "Oh my darling, my life, my blood, my hope...
...Enger rises to become the "imported delicacies" king of U.S. grocery-dom, he drags others with him on a golden leash. For the sister who cannot act he builds a theater. The brother who cannot paint is sent to Paris to daub away, and the brother who likes boogie-woogie is made to play Bach. Meanwhile, he nurses an albatross complex about the economic deadweights he has to carry...