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Supreme Court Justice William Q. Douglas travels to Cambridge to read members of the Signet Society passages from his new book about a mild mannered Maine river that is forced to use guns to defend its constitutional rights. In a lively introduction, the Society's First Woman President Ernestina Rathborne reminds the Associate Justice that the Signet is "neither a male chauvinist organization not an exclusive final club, neither a ham sandwich nor a lampshade, but rather Harvard's literary eating society." After the dinner Douglas and Rathborne elope to help a lonely Alaskan mountain defend its freedom of speech...
Except for the paper-thin figure of Ernestina, the novel abounds with brilliantly sketched characters. The prose is bright and economical, and its story is peppered with helpful melodrama. A year and a half ago Author Davidson published The Steeper Cliff, a fine first novel. In The Hour of Truth, he has cleared that dangerous hurdle, the second...
...mission to "Alba," a fever-ridden province in a South American country. Harmon grabs at the chance. In Alba, he begins to find new resources within himself. He bucks the "business-as-usual" policies of the mission's chief, blimpish Colonel Burling; he finds an understanding friend in Ernestina Manriquez, neglected wife of a rich landowner. From her he regains the "sense of recklessness, the grandeur of being a man, being male." But it is from his new friend Vicente Hidalgo, a revolutionist gone to seed and now a tosspot clairvoyant, that Harmon regains a larger sense of manhood...
During litigation over the late eccentric Colonel Edward Howland Robinson Green's $49,000,000 estate, on which approximately $6,000,000 inheritance tax is claimed by New York, Massachusetts, Texas and Florida, testimony was enterec by Housekeeper Ernestina Holcing, who said Colonel Green liked vaudeville billiards, Bromo-Seltzers, ergo, must be a New Yorker...
Married. Mrs. Ernestina Calles Robinson, daughter of General Plutarco Elias Calles, onetime president of Mexico and Minister of War; and Jorge Pasquel, merchant; in Cuernavaca, Mexico...