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Dale Junta will play number one, and is followed by Peter Krogh, Manny Elizalde, Rod Nichols, Larry Sears, and Al Goldman. Dave Lane will also see action in the third doubles match...
...Peter Krogh is scheduled to play at number two position. Wynn terms him as "the type of player it is extremely hard to win points from. He is consistent and does not waste his shots." Last year's Virginia State Junior Champion, Rod Nichols, is third man, and Manny Elizalde, winner of the National Junior Doubles Championship of Japan, a Phillipine player with a steady game, is four...
...while, life in the Krogh empire is delightfully plush. Anthony becomes Krogh's bodyguard, teaches his joyless boss how to relax, begins an affair on the side with an English lady tourist, and picks up extra change by funneling news about Krogh to a journalist. But when Anthony discovers that Krogh is swindling half the world, he rebels: he is not "unscrupulous enough to be successful." Suddenly dangerous, Anthony is casually destroyed by one of Krogh's assistants...
Efficient Monster. Like all of Graham Greene's novels, The Shipwrecked is basically concerned with the problem of evil, this time through a contrast between Anthony's genteel, old-fashioned shiftiness and Krogh's impersonal ruthlessness. For all his faults, Anthony is human, and he clings with redeeming inconsistency to "the conventions of a generation older than himself"; Krogh is merely an efficient monster who manipulates people as if they were pins...
Author Greene sometimes wrenches his story to underline his idea: Krogh, for example, becomes a conventional stereotype of the rich man too busy to be happy. But in Anthony Farrant he has created an unforgettable character, a bewildered and pathetic Ishmael who personifies the moral shabbiness to which Greene has repeatedly returned in his later, better books...