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...Shepard, Putney and Cox is a high Wasp law firm, dominated, in an odd way, by Beeky Ehninger, a wealthy, well-connected robber baron descendant. Twenty-five years before, Beeky Ehninger had saved the firm by reorganizing it, and now it is facing a similar crisis. In the trauma of merging the law firm with an even bigger and more profitable factory. Auchincloss reveals the personalities of the various partners, associates, and wives. They come across as a pretty average group of people; people who may work a little harder, suffer from a few more neuroses and have a little...
...minor. This includes Beekman ("Beeky") Ehninger, whose amiably flaccid presence is spread thinly but creamily throughout the book. At 56, Beeky is more legal lap dog than beagle. By his own admission, he cares more about the firm than he does about the law. His main contribution to Shepard, Putney & Cox was to have saved the firm in 1946 by retiring the aging, respected founder and then pirating two brilliant school chums from a rival firm. Backed by a good name and private fortune, Beeky earns his keep by representing rich members of his family. But as death and inheritance...
...ribald triple divorcee, an exploded sex bomb 15 years older than her husband. A menopausal female member of the firm demonstrates maternal ambitions by deviously trying to get a young lawyer to marry her daughter. Another woman solicitor, young and brilliant, undergoes great turmoil when she leaves Shepard, Putney, etc., where her husband is also a lawyer, in order to head for Washington and a dedicated life in public service practice...
...among film society members is that the limitations are a dead letter. GSD films plans to show "Slaughterhouse-Five" next year (which complies with the two-year guide "Cabaret," (which will not). And the educational" criterion is even less of a hindrance. GSD, for example, showed "Little Big Man," "Putney Swope" and "The Pawn-broker" under the general educational theme. "Social adaptation to a changing environment...
Funds never have rolled in for Downey. His fourth and best-known film, the ad-game satire Putney Swope, had a modestly profitable return at the box office, but Downey remained less than the hottest ticket in Hollywood. His next film, Pound, was shown in approximately four cities, double-billed with some unsavory horror pictures...