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Richard Dooling is impartially derisive in his caustic second novel, White Man's Grave (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; 386 pages; $22). He chucks a custard pie at every face that shows itself. There's Randall Killigan, an Indianapolis attorney who glories in the dismemberment allowed by bankruptcy law: the wrenching of great financial chunks from the carcasses of not-quite-dead companies. And there's young Boone Westfall, newly employed to reject legitimate claims at his father's sleazy insurance company. "Why do you think they call it work?" Dad asks, when Boone objects that cheating widows and orphans is tedious...
...Dooling is only warming up. It seems that Killigan's son Michael, Boone's idealistic friend, has gone missing while on Peace Corps duty in Sierra Leone. The scene shifts to the African outback, and the reader worries for a chapter or two that Dooling intends to serve up the traditional wise and ! mysterious natives of white-man-in-Africa fiction who look on gravely as the palefaces disintegrate...
...Freshman Killigan Lonergan, one of the Crimson's top runners, was hobbled by advanced shin splints and finished the race in 27:49.1, well off his normal pace...
...weeks of practice are left before the opening tilt with Andover at Soldiers Field on October 8. Although the squad as a whole is an unknown quantity, several players of prominence in schoolboy football showed up yesterday. Among these were S. L. Batchelder, a halfback from Milton, Thomas Killigan, quarterback at Exeter last year, J. H. Gildea, Boston Latin School center, B. H. Ticknor, St. Mark's fullback, and J. N. Trainer of Exeter, who is a guard...
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