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...life from the viewpoint of an amateur and humane psychoanalyst. What emerges is a friendly and convincing portrait of a man whose paramount drives are a love of people and excitement, a dislike of friction and contradiction. He is "a good but not a very wise man; vain, captious, overconfident and warmhearted; no more honest than most, but friendlier than the average; courageous but at the same time . . . not totally without a certain somewhat meretricious grandeur...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: From Riad to Roosevelt | 8/14/1944 | See Source »

Alan Ladd, the cinema's percussion-captious tough guy, discharged by the Army as too brittle last fall, was called for a retake, rumored fit to be retaken...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Mar. 13, 1944 | 3/13/1944 | See Source »

Like any convert, Eddie Rickenbacker recommends the treatment for others. "Let our great leaders, including our President and Mr. Churchill, visit Russia and Mr. Stalin [whom Churchill, but not Rickenbacker, has met], . . . We should not be too captious if Stalin has not seen fit to attend the conferences. ... He has little time for anything but immediate results...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Greatest Democracy | 8/30/1943 | See Source »

...that as Defense Minister he had been a bad war strategist. Prime Minister Churchill responded to this criticism last week by remaining Defense Minister also. If he had been a bad strategist, his critics could only place their hopes in his newly appointed advisers. Even the most captious critics could agree with a Sketch editorial which said: "The Prime Minister, if he has not exactly bowed to the storm, has at least inclined his head in recognition of its existence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Churchill Faces Up | 3/2/1942 | See Source »

...steelmen how to increase their production by 30% without expanding their present facilities. Whatever the practicality of the Reuther plan and the Murray plan, both support Murray's claim that labor, having won a seat at the council table with industry, is not content to behave like a captious outsider, but is willing to share the responsibilities and problems of the economic order...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: C. I. O. Faces Defense | 1/27/1941 | See Source »

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