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...stayed on in Indo-China for a while, as plain citizen Nguyen Vinh Thuy and Honorary Councilor to the Republic. Nobody had much use for him. He went abroad and flung himself into a reckless round of pleasure and sport...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDO-CHINA: The New Frontier | 5/29/1950 | See Source »

...looked at the thing, the bigger the bill had grown-an additional $385 million for national defense, millions for creeks, dams and other sordid items of pork-barrel politics. It had become just too much to digest; besides, members had been getting letters from constituents demanding an end to reckless spending. With more courage than it had shown all year, the House put its jaws to work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Into the Jaws | 5/22/1950 | See Source »

...This Reckless Breed of Men, by Robert Glass Cleland. A lively, well-documented tribute to the bold, restless, beaver-trapping mountain men whose exploits (1820-40) helped to push the frontier across the Rocky Mountains and into the Far West. First-rate Americana (TIME, April...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Recent & Readable, May 1, 1950 | 5/1/1950 | See Source »

...dinner and supper. But she soon began to worry tearfully that she was not getting over. Then, at dinner one night in Philadelphia, a trombonist in the band confided that she was going to be fired. Betty gulped three brandy-and-benedictines and went to the theater in the reckless conviction that she had nothing to lose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: This Side of Happiness | 4/24/1950 | See Source »

...This Reckless Breed of Men, by Robert Glass Cleland. A lively, well-documented tribute to the bold, restless, beaver-trapping mountain men whose exploits (1820-40) helped to push the frontier across the Rocky Mountains and into the Far West. First-rate Americana (TIME, April...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Recent & Readable, Apr. 24, 1950 | 4/24/1950 | See Source »

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