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Only Al Montgomery emerged from the contest with a win for Harvard. Montgomery faced off against the Chiefs' Jim Webb, who tried vainly to use his bulky build to an advantage. The spindly Montgomery held...
...narrated by Jack Webb...
...have losses we wouldn't be in business." The group draws some satisfaction from the recent strengthening of sterling, now at $2.22, which means that members will have to lay out fewer pounds to pay off claims in dollars. But that is sore solace. As Underwriter Peter Cameron-Webb noted, "I doubt if a broker will ever try to place this policy again at Lloyd...
...narrated by Jack Webb...
Against these detailed backgrounds, the characters are mere outlines. Walter Blackett, head of Blackett and Webb, the firm whose farflung enterprises frame most of the novel's action, is a buccaneer abroad and a fond family man at home. Yet Blackett is such a compleat capitalist that he is willing to trade his daughter like a commodity in order to pump up the profits. His opposite is young Matthew Webb, a bumbling idealist who despises colonialism but offers no better alternative than a vague new brotherhood...