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...first novel, The Paper Chase. Hart, the hero of that book, "learned to love the law," an ironic expression of Harvard Law School students. He also learned to hate the way law students stabbed each other to succeed at it. In Osborn's new expose. The Associates, Samuel Weston, fresh from Harvard Law School, shares those passions. In Weston's lofty view, work at Bass and Marshall is grinding, trivial and dehumanizing, especially when it interferes with Sam's love for another associate, Camilla Newman. The attraction, however, is a mystery. Ms. Newman is profane, nasty...
...hissing. One partner fancies himself as a sea captain, and enters securities litigation with commands like "Blast them. Send them down in an instant with all hands on board." Cosmo Bass, the formidable autocrat who runs the firm, could have been another Kingsfield, the Paper Chase professor. Unfortunately, Weston never gets to do much more than eat lunch with the old boy and listen to him bombinate about what it was like to be an associate in the '20s (stiff collars, no air conditioning...
...Weston, Conn...
DIED. W. Garfield Weston, 80, Canadian "Barnum of Bread" who parlayed a small family business, George Weston, Ltd., into the world's largest bakery and one of the world's biggest international grocery chains; in Toronto...
...Buckwalter Weston, Conn...