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...falsify, seldom takes sides. If it turns Wilson (Richard Gaines) into something of a hero for what he tried to do, it never for a second palliates what he was or why he failed. Its Wilson is an obstinate, opinionated, frozen-faced idealist who trampled on his friends, spat on his enemies, and so recoiled from "politicians" that he never had a glimmer of how to cope with them...
There were concrete ships that never got under way and steel ships that spat rivets like raindrops. But somehow, despite such costly barnacles, the U.S. as a carrier during World War I outdistanced Germany, Norway, France, remained second only to Great Britain...
...opening campaign speech little Fiorello tossed away his prepared manuscript, grabbed off his horn-rimmed glasses and used them alternately as a cutlass, a rapier, a backscratcher, a wand, a scepter, a drumstick and a trowel. He touched his toes, imitated a football player's kickoff, spat on an imaginary apple and polished it on his sleeve. He told the audience that his extra work came out of him and not out of the city. He ridiculed critics who complain of his Washington visits: "I saw the city needed this. . . . The bankers wanted to charge...
...Fort Bragg in July, he announced he had been working for $10 a day, had no intention of functioning for $21 a month. People who had known him at home in Manhattan said he was a quiet, peaceable fellow. Before long he had become a surly nuisance. He spat on the messhall floor, refused to clean it up. He scattered rubbish around his bed, refused to do anything about it. Locked up in the guardhouse, he was taken out to work, refused again...
...frostbite in Albania. No winter equipment had been provided for the Army. The boy raised the stump of his arm and screamed: "We're going to kill Mussolini, the murderer." Whitaker heard another story of a wounded man who rose from his cot in an Albanian hospital and spat in the face of Mussolini's daughter, Countess Ciano...