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...rode to Chicago. To conserve his money, he spent the first night under a bush in Grant Park. But he decided to live as openly as possible and simply ignore the threat of recapture. He asked a policeman for directions. The cop replied politely. Reinhold invented a new name, Phillip Brick, applied for a Social Security card, and got it with no trouble at all. He went to work as a dishwasher, then as a bookstore clerk...
Furry could not be reached for contact last night, and it is not certain when and if he will submit to another Committee grilling. It is known, however, that he consulted with a new layer about the implications of another testimony. Furry was represented by Phillip Forer in previous hearings...
...voice of Fitzgerald's careless young people who "smashed things and creatures and then retreated back into their money" echo through the book. "I wonder if we were ever as funny as we thought," one of Phillip's more stable characters wonders. "We always thought we were so damn smart...
This disillusionment with bright sayings, glittering friends, and irridescent surroundings is the theme of Phillip's first novel. The book's tragic hero, George "Gopher" Marsh, is rich, athletic, well-born, handsome, and intelligent. He has everything, in fact, except a sense of purpose. The narrator is his friend Gus Taylor who, like Nick Carraway in "Gatsby" and Bill King in "Pulham," wanders through an aristocratic group without actually being part of it. His slight detachment from the over-ripe world of his friends provides Gus with both a pinnacle from which to view their fevered, aimless partying, and, ultimately...
...Solicitor-General is the second highest legal official in the government. Only the Attorney-General is higher. The position, filled by Phillip G. Periman in the Truman Administration, is now vacant...