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Perhaps the frankest of judges is General Sessions Judge Brown Taylor of Nashville, Tenn. He once dismissed a drunken-driving charge against a banker because "this man loaned me money when I needed it, and I'm going to help him now." After a witness in an assault case testified that the defendant struck him with a whip, Taylor offered some judicial advice: "Don't ever let anyone whip you. Take a gun and kill...
...Colman." Hubie did. He went so straight that his wife took to adultery out of boredom. And then there was a divorce, and a couple more marriages-all crammed onto the last two pages as O'Hara's chronicle dribbles to a stop. Hubie Ward was the frankest of phonies, but the moral is, or so the author says, that "people know when you are trying to be something you are not." In his short stories, O'Hara can knock chips off the old Hollywood chopping block with his eyes shut. But in The Big Laugh...
President Charles de Gaulle has decided that the best way to run France is by referendum, "the clearest, frankest, most democratic practice there is. It is becoming a French custom." It also had the advantage that the President could determine the need, the timing, and the phrasing of any plebiscite...
...their own relationships, Kennedy and Goldberg are on close and candid terms. "In Cabinet meetings," says a ranking Administration colleague, "Arthur is one of the frankest men in speaking to the President. He simply says, 'Mr. President, if you go and do this or that, why here's what people will say about it.'" Says Jack Kennedy of his Secretary of Labor: "He's very able, very objective. He's a totally public-minded fellow. He's knowledgeable about labor and he's got plenty of guts...
...like glints on a prism. But color now interests Hultberg less than composition, and in composition he is moving more and more toward humanistic painting. "I want to put the human being in a setting," he says, "in a landscape, but equal to the landscape." Hultberg is his own frankest critic. He finds that his paintings are of a world more dead than alive, and he wants to get ''a style serviceable for life...