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...THIS RECKLESS BREED OF MEN (361 pp.) -Robert Glass Cleland-Knopf...
...afterwards taught young Raymond Westerling in Istanbul's French Catholic St. Joseph school, recalled that he was "a mild, well-mannered, moon-faced little boy." Raymond's later development was not what Frére Adolphe might have expected: he became the notorious "Turk" Westerling, a reckless, ruthless professional soldier and a fanatical Moslem...
...town's businessmen found him good company and a good talker-even able to discuss the ups & downs of the St. Louis Cardinals. And he picked up poker fast. Says one card crony: "He's too reckless to be a good player. But he sure puts a lot of life in a game." He also kept his ties with Paris, went there almost every summer and brought back both new scores and new art. St. Louisans soon learned to take pride in his collection of contemporary art which includes, among other things, some two dozen Picassos...
...floor. But Byrd's old friends of both parties jumped in to help cut the freshman down to size. "I know of no more valuable committee that has functioned in this body since I have been a member," declared Georgia's veteran Walter George. "Amazing and reckless charges," said Mississippi's John Stennis. Michigan's Republican Homer Ferguson pointed out that Byrd's committee was so respected by the G.O.P. that Byrd had been allowed to stay on as chairman even in the Republican-controlled 80th Congress. Half a dozen others rose to add their...
With the U.S. Government running into the red at the rate of $10,000 a minute, gaunt, grey Economist Edwin G. Nourse last week issued a stern warning. Said President Truman's former chief economic adviser: the Administration's reckless spending under its "pie in the sky" philosophy would, unless checked by tough-minded slashes, lead to "strain and possible breakdown" of the U.S. economy...