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Boos for Brass. In Manila, where G.I.s started sporadic demonstrations several weeks ago, the noise was loudest. Dis integration of the soldierly virtues had shown in drunkenness, reckless driving, carelessness in dress. Then demonstrations became organized...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - MORALE: My Son, John | 1/21/1946 | See Source »

Slick Chicks. In Rehoboth, Mass., a reckless chicken hawk power-dived into a henhouse, was captured by quick-thinking hens who ran out, slammed the door...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jan. 7, 1946 | 1/7/1946 | See Source »

Dream Girl (by Elmer Rice; produced by The Playwrights' Co.) is the season's first entertaining light comedy and the stage's first use of an entertaining light-comedy idea. Playwright Rice has examined a day in the life of young Georgina Allerton (Betty Field), a reckless, vast-repertoried daydreamer. A high-spirited little goose, Georgina is a chain-smoker of aromatic fantasies. She is far better at dramatizing than at understanding herself, and has a bit of trouble sorting out the men in her life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Play in Manhattan, Dec. 24, 1945 | 12/24/1945 | See Source »

...controls by Feb. 15 seemed almost a caress. The U.S., said Bowles, had saved $66 billion by not modifying the Price Control Act, as N.A.M. had suggested 18 months ago. N.A.M.'s demand that controls be lifted now, when inflation pressure is at its greatest, "is a risky, reckless, gambling policy which in all likelihood would produce a national disaster...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANAGEMENT: The Glacier Moves | 12/17/1945 | See Source »

...well into its second stage where TIME is concerned. The formula is: first, Success, then, Arrogance, then Downfall. I refer to an all too arrogant falsehood in the piece, which was not only a gross misrepresentation of my sentiments but proving in black & white that TIME can be a reckless liar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 29, 1945 | 10/29/1945 | See Source »

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