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...secret alliance with the League's activities, was egging it on to start a "backfire" against White House policies. Nerves worn raw by other anxieties, the President even threatened to "go to the country" on the naval issue. In the President's eyes "Admiral" Gardiner became a reckless and irresponsible publicist who was seeking to wreck the Administration's plans for naval economy and world peace...
...vast army of children returning to school will be little ones of four, five and six years of age who for the first time are leaving the protection and safety of their homes to enter an entirely new world. There will be problems enough without that of the reckless driver...
Produced by Milton Aborn's Civic Light Opera Company, which has been presenting a voluminous Gilbert & Sullivan repertoire (TIME, May 18), The Merry Widow was revived in Manhattan last week. "Danilo." that reckless prince, is oHtime, dependable Donald Brian. Oldsters who recalled his appearance in the same role when the operetta was first brought to the U. S. applauded him to the rafters. Many of the jokes and quips are pitifully old, are made even more shabby when Mr. Aborn's company attempts to freshen them, but the Lehar music-lilting "Vilia"' and the charming "Cavalier" song...
...Daredevil pluck, ultra rapidity of thought and movement, cool calculation and reckless abandon, honor blended with determination- these are some of the demands and features of the great, clean national game. Through the long Dark Ages of serfdom, hurling remained with us as a bulwark second only to our national language in preserving our subdued and suppressed individuality...
...radio announcer mingling the names of real Derby horses (Spanish Play, Sweep All) with fictitious ones (Tommy Boy, Bar Sinister), help make the atmosphere of Sporting Blood less spurious than is customary. So does the performance of Clark Gable, who impersonates the young gambler with that air of reckless, good-humored depravity which has made him an overnight favorite among female cinemaddicts...