DILLON ANDERSON is a Houston lawyer who served as Special Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs under President Eisenhower in 1955 and 1956. At our urging, Mr. Anderson published two novels about his famous characters, Clint Hightower and Claudie, and his new book about that poker-playing sportsman, Billingsley, THE BILLINGSLEY PAPERS, will be brought out this month by Simon and Schuster.
DILLON ANDERSON, a Texas lawyer who served as Special Assistant to the President on National Security, has found time to compose two volumes of stories, I AND CLAUDIE and CLAUDIE’S KINFOLKS. In this account he gives us another aspect of his preposterous friend, Billingsley, poker pal and hunting champion.
DILLON ANDERSON,who served as Special Assistant to the President on National Security Affairs and who took an active part in the Geneva Conference, has now resumed his law practice in Houston. Luckily for the Atlantic, Mr. Anderson has a special facility for writing on trains and planes; in these moments he has found time to compose two volumes of short stories, I and Claudie and Claudie’s Kinfolks, and to give us biographical accounts of his preposterous friend, Billingsley, his companion at the poker table and in the hunting field.
A Houston lawyer and a native Texan who served with distinction under Secretary of War Stimson, DILLON ANDERSON has returned to Washington to succeed Robert Cutler as Special Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs. On trains and on Sundays he amuses himself by writing a series of salty Texas narratives about two wanderers, Clint and Claudie, who fortunately do not take themselves or their victims too seriously. The stories have been collected in two volumes: I and Claudie (1951) and Claudie’s Kinfolks (1954).
The National Security Council came into being less than ten years ago; it is, as DILLON ANDERSON says, ”a relatively new mechanism in our Government,” and one which has been greatly amplified under President Eisenhower. In the article which follows, Mr. Anderson gives us an objective ,reassuring account of how it Junctions today. A Houston lawyer who served in the Army under Secretary Slimson during World War 11, Mr. Anderson is today Special Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs. His predecessor in that office ‚ Robert Cutler, and Charles A. Haskins helped to adapt this material from a speech delivered before the Dallas Council on World Affairs.
A Houston lawyer who served in the Middle East and on the War Department General Staff during the War and who last year succeeded Robert Cutler as Special Assistant to the President on National Security Affairs, DILLON ANDERSON, like all Texans, has a special fondness for poker and bird dogs. Occasionally he goes quail shooting with a good friend, Billingsley, and Billingsley’s Old Ruff is a bird dog which has to be seen to be believed.
Author of the delightful I and Claudie stories which have been running in the Atlantic in recent years, DILLON ANDERSON is a Houston lawyer who enjoys nothing so much as a relaxing game of poker. The mentor of his poker table is his friend Billingsley, and Billingsley’s methods of wearing down the opposition will be relished by every Atlantic reader who ever tries to bluff with a broken straight. Mr. Anderson’s new book, Claudie’s Kinfolks, has just appeared under the Atlantic-Little, Brown imprint.
A native Texan, DILLON ANDERSON established himself as one of the ablest young lawyers in Houston before he took time off for his fiction. In 1951, we published his first book, I and Claudie, a salty Texas narrative of two happy wanderers who fortunately do not take themselves or their victims too seriously. Clint Hightower and his oxlike companion have adventured their way in and out of the oil country, Texas politics, hurricanes, revivals, and state fairs — and now they are off again.
A native Texan, DILLON ANDERSON established himself as one of the oldest young laicyers in Houston before he took time off for his fiction. In 1951, he published his first booh, I and Claudie, a salty Texas narrative of two happy wanderers who fortunately do not take themselves or their victims too seriously, (dint Hightower and his oxlike companion have adventured their way in and out of the oil country, Texas politics, hurricanes, revivals, and state fairs — and now they are off again.
A native Texan, DILLON ANDERSON established himself as one of the ablest young lawyers in Houston before he took time off for his fiction. This September has seen the publication of his first book, I and Claudie, a salty Texas narrative of two happy hobos who fortunately do not take themselves or their victims too seriously. Clint Hightower and his oxlike companion, Claudie, have adventured their way in and out of the oil country, Texas politics, hurricanes, revivals, and state fairs — and we hope there is no stopping them for some time to come.
A native Texan tune thriving, as a corporation lawyer in Houston. DILLON ANDKRSON had been talking short stories about Texas long before he teas per stunted to put them down on paper. With his first story, “The Revival.” which appeared in the Atlantic for June. 1919. he embarked upon a series about two meandering Texans who live by their wits but don ‘t aheavs win. Clint Hightower and his “assistant” Claudie have attracted favorable attention as jar ivesl as Hollywood.
A native Texan and a partner in the Houston law firm of Baker, Bolts, Andrews, and Parish, DILLON ANDERSONis establishing a fresh reputation as a writer of short stories. He is contributing to the Atlantic a series of adventures in the lives of two happy hobos who fortunately do not take themselves too seriously. The Editor captured the first story on his visit to Houston in 1948; this is the fifth, and there are more to come.
A Texas lawyer and a native son, DILLON ANDERSON of Houston is contributing to the Atlantic a series of short stories about two itinerant bums who operate strictly on a catch-as~catch-can basis. This story of their summer sashay into Texas politics is the fourth in the series. and there are more to come. In Texas, where, as everyone knows. Democratic nomination to state office is tantamount to election, the real contest occurs in July and August when the primaries are held. The general election in the fall is only a formality.
A Texan of the fourth generation, DILLON ANDERSON of Houston, Texas, is contributing to the Atlantic a series of short stories about two traveling hobos who live by their wits and who but for their sentiment and gullibility might sometimes win. This is the third in the series and there are more to come. Mr. Anderson, a member of the law firm of Baker, Botts, Andrews & Parish, says that, as a lawyer, his working time is spent largely in keeping other people out of trouble — that writing stories in his spare time helps to keep him out of trouble.
A Houston, Texas, lawyer, DILLON ANDERSON in the June Atlantic embarked with “The Revival" on a series of short stories about two meandering Texans who live by their wits but don’t always win. This is the second in the series. Mr. Anderson says that, as a lawyer, his working time is spent largely in keeping other people out of trouble; that writing stories in his spare time helps to keep him out of trouble.
One of the younger leaders of the Texas bar, DILLON ANDERSON is a veteran who served overseas at Headquarters USAFIME in Cairo and with the General Staff Corps in Washington. The originality and sharp penetration of his mind won him promotion from Major to Colonel and award of the Legion of Merit. In his spare time, he occasionally devotes himself to the short story, of which this is his first to appear in the Atlantic.