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...Vincent's deep feeling for J. J.: "Nothing but contempt." Captain Astor, a Navy officer in both World Wars, regarded J. J., said Brooke Astor, daughter of a Marine Corps general, as "the most useless and worthless member of society, and he despised him because he was a slacker and a draft evader...
...Every time Robert Frost comes to town," wrote the New York Times's Washington bureau chief, James ("Scotty") Reston, "the Washington Monument stands up a little straighter." Flinty old (83) Poet Frost proved to Pundit Reston that he is no slacker at punditry himself. Frost welcomes the struggle and decision-making that make life tough-and neither the Russians, nor their satellites (terrestrial or spatial) upset him a bit: "We ought to enjoy a standoff. Let it stand and deepen in meaning. Let's not be hasty about showdowns. Let's be patient and confident with...
...without exciting envy and jealousy among my schoolmates." Andy figures he can work the student ploy right through law school and tool past the draft-age barrier of 26, preferably in his cozy little MG. But he underestimates the power of a woman. His girl Susan cannot stand a slacker. Or as she puts it to Andy: "Everything with you is cotton candy." The Cotton Candy Kid is so flummoxed by this that he promptly flunks his exams and finds himself in the U.S. Army...
...Morison's verdict that Midway was "a victory of intelligence." They have practically nothing good to say for their leaders' performance. They find the Imperial Navy's intelligence "ineffective." its plan "faulty," its technology backward (only the U.S. had radar at Midway), its security procedures far slacker than before the Pearl Harbor attack. In the first week of June 1942, they say, all Japanese suffered from the "Victory Disease." The U.S. never allowed the Japanese generals and admirals the chance to recover from the consequences of that illness. After Midway, Japan fought no longer for victory...
...face of it. ("I should have backed the protest by force.") Repeatedly he offered to furnish and equip a volunteer cavalry division for emergency war service. ("I and my four sons" were to be among its officers.) He was consistently turned down. He sat the war out, a "slacker malgre lui,'' ljut his sons went overseas with the Army as fast as he could get them there. One of them, 21-year-old Quentin, was shot down in his pursuit plane and killed...