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...voracious fondness for pig-sticking and whisky. One of the subalterns, 2nd Lieut. Arthur Drake (Paul Jones), has come to the regiment with tunes of glory lilting in his head and an earnest determination to uphold the honor of soldiering. The other, 2nd Lieut. Edward Millington (Jeremy Clyde), the son of a general, is disdainfully disenchanted with the military. A kind of Victorian dropout, he intends to get busted and return to the bliss of civilian life. Millington quickly breaks regimental protocol and gets himself cordially detested by everyone from the colonel on down to Drake, his neophyte comrade...
...have to look far. After World War I, when prosperity and a growing advertising industry boosted the car into the national consciousness, the automobile began to play an important part in our literature. Clyde Griffiths, the American Dream hero of Dreiser's American Tragedy, sets out on his destructive way after an afternoon joyride ends in a bloody smash-up. Fitzgerald's Great Gatsby resolves itself after a car crash...
...hero of James Agee's Death in the Family ends it in a car. Bonnie and Clyde are massacred in one. Post-war writer John Cheever has increasingly employed random automobile deaths-both in his last collection of short stories (The Brigadier and the Golf Window) and his most recent novel (Bullet Park). And what, for that matter, is Ralph Nader's real message...
...sounded at first like a throwback to the Depression days of Bonnie and Clyde: three men and two women, with guns blazing, making their getaway from the Brighton branch of Boston's State Street Bank and Trust Co. with $26,000 in stolen cash. Patrolman Walter A. Schroeder, 42, a hero cop and father of nine, tried to head them off- only to be cut down and left dying by a burst of gunfire. When the police were able to piece together what had happened last week, the bank heist appeared to be a bold and bloody new departure...
Bonnie and Clyde was the next step. Says Weir: "I saw Faye Dunaway in those soft sweaters and long skirts and those cunning little berets, and I thought that was one of the greatest things I'd ever seen." Fairchild and Brady thought so too, and WWD swung into action. "We weren't promoting the fashion," Weir insists. "We just went around Seventh Avenue and kept asking everybody if they were doing anything with it. And then, you know, there was a sort of chain reaction and we reported what was going on." WWD used plenty of space to report...