Flashbacks

Art Hansl was born with a silver spoon in his mouth the size of a shovel, though it melted away during the depression years. His mother was a writer with a play on Broadway at age twenty-two; his father an athlete and an associate of J.P. Morgan & Company. They fired him off to private schools at an early age, where he found an aptitutude for languages. After his father died, young Art struck out on his own.
He joined the Marine Corps during the Korean conflict but the war was over before h...