Michael Malone - Weebly

one or the other of these actions; as yet, of course, they
weren't sure which one, since they did not know yet
what it was up to. One of these men was Bob
("Bucky") Eagerly of the executive division. He had on
an expensive suit that didn't look it. He looked like the
manager of a huge southwestern discount department
store, but was, in fact, a media manipulator of
preeminent capacity and one of the keys that turned the
administration. With him was a man whom he disliked
and envied, Daniel Wolton. Wolton was very moral and
very handsome, both in a posh New England way, and
these two qualities seemed to everyone, himself
included, to be connected and dependent on each
other. He had silver hair curling around patrician ears,
he had an upper-class accent and a stiff upper lip.
Moral superiority was what Wolton had to sell, and he
had sold it so far to OSS (where he worked) and to
INR at the State Department (where, unbeknownst to
OSS, he also worked) and to the newspapers.
The object of Wolton's and Eagerly's inquiry, Dr.
Thomas Svatopluk, was a brainy and sinewy naturalized
East European, brought to New Jersey ("Of all places!"