Word: cautionings
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Like any man who has spent 32 years in politics, Jimmy Byrnes has a well-developed bump of caution. Lost in a storm over Moscow last week, he fretted : "You know, we might run into the side of a mountain." His interpreter, Charles E. Bohlen, pointed out that there were no mountains "around here." "That's fine," said Byrnes, "but do you know where 'here' is?" After a full hour of circling they landed, and Byrnes, in a tan topcoat and low pointed shoes, alighted in Moscow's sub-zero weather...
...course, that he is a saint unilaterally." Other effusions: "He is not just one animal but the whole zoo"; "He is the common denominator of man"; "When he goes to sleep, it is like . . . Aphrodite ascending"; "He has returned to the womb bearing great gifts." A surrealist mingles caution with admiration: "To Henry Miller. . . . Don't let the amphibious wife strangle you with a nightgown. It isn't decent with an orange...
...Criminal Caution. In Hamilton, Ont., Fire Chief William Murdoch appealed to burglars: please stamp out cigaret butts before leaving the scene of the crime...
...concerns Grant Matthews (Ralph Bellamy), a world-minded, straight-shooting airplane manufacturer who would like to be President in 1948. The Republican bosses think he might be a likely nominee, a candidate who speaks out-provided he never speaks out of turn. But while they are inoculating him with caution shots, his wife (Ruth Hussey) keeps jabbing him with courage. In the end, Grant walks out on the party bosses...
Both women were led from the room. The five U.S. generals of the trial commission, conducting the first U.S. war-crimes trial, were thus setting a precedent; they proceeded with the utmost caution. Yamashita, who hoped to appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court, would be given every legal courtesy-by men who devoutly hoped to see him face a firing squad...