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Bill Mauldin's sardonic, unshaven Willie once summed up his attitude to the reckless flood of U.S. decorations in World War II. Said Willie: "Just gimme a coupla aspirin. I already got a Purple Heart...
...Magic. But Tom Dewey, who had no patience with reckless promises of 20% tax cuts, knew that these things would have to be paid for. Said he: "There is no magic to the production of government revenues. They arise only by being extracted from the pockets of the taxpayer." Nor was he beguiled by arguments for concealed, less painful taxes. "There is easy demagogy in the indirect...
...actions of labor unions "whose leaders are ambitious men with reckless disregard for the general welfare" must be curtailed by federal law, Donald Richberg, co-author of recent labor legislation bills, told the Law School Forum last night...
Birds in Their Little Nests. After the last of many temperamental disagreements with Sullivan, Gilbert retired to the country, where he became a somewhat eccentric justice of the peace. "Had you been a gentleman," he said to a chauffeur whom he had just fined ?5 for reckless driving, "I should have fined you ten." Gilbert himself bought an American Locomobile-in which he promptly ran over a bicycling curate and sent his own wife flying into a hedge. "She looked like a large and quite unaccountable bird's nest," he mused...
Dostoevskian in conception and design, the story progressively becomes more wildly adventurous, more mystical, more half-baked. But even in its failures, Odd Man Out is admirable. It is a reckless, head-on attempt at greatness, and the attempt frequently succeeds...