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...confirmed pessimist as well as a distinguished, patient and learned anthropologist is Dr. Ernest Albert Hooton of Harvard University. Dr. Hooton doubts whether man's evolutionary status has improved appreciably since the end of the Glacial Ages, believes it will get worse unless "the reckless and copious breeding of protected inferiors" is stopped...
...Tulsa, Okla., riding with a case of dynamite, Lee Smith saw that his car was about to crash into another, hugged the dynamite to his chest, prevented an explosion and was jailed for reckless driving...
...currency. With the advice and consent of the Administration, the Reserve Board is the manager. And in the management process a tremendous potential momentum toward Inflation has been built up. If this force is not properly braked, most disinterested observers agree that the U. S. may go on a reckless ride which would make the boom of the 1920's seem like a harmless trolley trip. Indeed, there is some doubt whether the Board can keep this momentum Bunder control, because many of the inflationary threats lie not upon the records in its rented quarters across from the Treasury...
...author makes a point which we have always considered a very valid one-that under some conditions fast driving is safe and sometimes even safer than slow driving. It is not the habitually fast driver, but the habitually reckless and unskilled, driver who causes most accidents. He needs warning and instruction, both of which this little book supplies. You can't legislate fast driving out of the picture, but you can educate reckless driving...
...plays football, gets a broken leg making a touchdown for Williams in a victory over Harvard. His father's suicide puts him in touch with a cousin, Mario Van de Weyer, who represents still another problem for the young moralist to solve. Educated in Europe, Mario is sophisticated, reckless, experienced in love, enjoys flattery, presents, bright clothing, admires Oliver's integrity without wishing to imitate him. When Mario leaves Harvard hastily, after an actress is discovered in his roo'm, Oliver befriends him, straightens out his finances, feels no moral revulsion. Yet as Oliver grows to manhood...