The Last Refuge

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‘Jud! How the heck are you? Still with Lynx News?’

‘In a manner of speaking,’ the young man told me. ‘After John Chandler went over to CNN, I hung around for a while working for the anchorman who replaced him, but when a job came up at Lynx Entertainment, I jumped at it.’

I’m a sucker for those make-over shows on the House and Garden Network, but LynxE wasn’t one of the channels I made a habit of watching. The network had inflicted such must-sees on the American viewing public as Stranded and Take My Wife, Please! and Carpool Confidential. ‘Don’t tell me you’re responsible for CEO Kids,’ I said, naming one of LynxE’s most popular summer shows where child protégées were installed in senior positions in some of America’s largest companies, including ExxonMobil and Bank of America. When one budding genius managed to lose half a million dollars in an hour of trading for Merrill-Lynch, the show’s ratings had shot into the stratosphere.

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