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...ladies err anywhere it is on the side of caution. One WASP, heading for Long Island, was dismayed by Manhattan's towering skyline, turned, to climb for altitude, lost her way, made an emergency landing in Freehold, N.J. Caution, however, has paid off in a low fatality rate. Only 13 WASPs have lost their lives...
...Caution. This week the market was up again in the first day of trading. But there are still plenty of Calamity Janes on the Street. Brilliant, bespectacled Gerald M. Loeb, E. F. Hutton partner, reflecting the still-prevalent pessimism, said: "I am bullish for the near term and rather indifferent as to the long term...
...simple statement of aim drew agreement from two other strategists who have an eye on China and the Philippines. Dour, realistic Lieut. General Joseph Stilwell promised to support Nimitz by "an aggressive Allied land and air offensive projected from the interior." But Infantryman Stilwell barbed his statement with caution that "vital China-based air operations cannot wait for penetration of the blockade by land...
...different formats-50 copies in a red binding, 20 in green, 20 in blue, two in vellum, one with primrose edges, one with a piece of mirror set in the cover. He also conducted some inside operations: "In thousands of copies of his books he had inserted . . . a 'Caution' in which he had disavowed authorship of a story . . . published in a magazine over his signature. He had not written it, the 'Caution' explained; he had done no more than forward it to the editor on behalf of a foreign lady, whose name he gave. Now, when...
...Caution and Carroll. The founder brothers, Daniel and Alexander, were born of poor farmers from the Scottish island of Arran.* Devout Protestants, fervent educators, they were also canny as brook trout. Their first books, cautiously selected for their long-term moral, educational and financial value, included such titles as Elements of the Gospel Harmony, A Guide to the Unprotected in Matters of Property and Income ("by a Banker's Daughter"), Differential Calculus, History of the Book of Common Prayer (of which a revised edition is still on Macmillan's list today...