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Getaway. In Arlington, Va., the judge let Haywood L. Miller off with a light $15 fine for reckless driving and fleeing from highway cops at 70 m.p.h., after Miller explained: "I was out with another man's wife, and I thought that's who was chasing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Mar. 17, 1952 | 3/17/1952 | See Source »

They asserted that he conducted his rainmaking activities in "so reckless and negligent a manner that excessive rains" caused "damage to the real and personal property owned by the plaintiffs...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Judge Dismisses Rainmaking Suits | 2/19/1952 | See Source »

...Connecticut's Merritt Parkway State Police caught up with a new wrinkle in reckless driving: a factory hand shaving with an electric razor while speeding to work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Americana | 2/4/1952 | See Source »

With a few more wrinkles and blacker circles under the eyes, Bette Davis has returned to the screen. She recaptures all the reckless will-power from her role in All About Eve and every malicious intent and tortured-expression from The Little Foxes days. Injected into a murder intrigue, these attributes would be formidable, except for one fact. Her movie personality, which has been geared to a virtuoso performance, does not quite reveal its unique psychological assets in a double lead, especially in this murder story...

Author: By Jonathan O. Swan, | Title: The Moviegoer | 1/26/1952 | See Source »

After a 17-mile race through a mounting North Carolina blizzard, Mississippi's Democratic Representative John E. Rankin was arrested by a highway patrolman, charged with careless and reckless driving. Ol' John's futile defense: congressional immunity to arrest except for "treason, felony, or a breach of the peace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Slings & Arrows | 1/21/1952 | See Source »

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