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Saroyan wrote The Human Comedy as a scenario (the novel was an afterthought), sold it to M.G.M. for $60,000 on the understanding that he would direct the picture. Assigned to practice on a short, the temperamental Mr. Saroyan soon got so fed up with the studio's "continuous and disgraceful crying, trembling and shaking" that he walked...
...there was more. Mr. Klorfein had an afterthought: "My wife bought some bonds at the Gimbel party, too. How much was it, dearest?" She said it was only $175,000 worth, but "of course, I've been buying war bonds all along...
...most interesting talk a few days ago concerning the war in Africa," purred the Mayor. Abruptly then he named the men with whom he said he had spoken-eight Italian generals and one air marshal. Properly dramatic, he saved the best name for last, throwing it in as an afterthought: hot-tempered General Annibale ("Electric Whiskers") Bergonzoli, photogenic Black Shirt commander captured by the British in Libya two years ago this month...
...symbolic background was an afterthought added about three years ago, when we noticed that nearly half TIME'S cover portraits were people who had broken into the news too recently to be generally recognized (for example, when we put Cuba's strong man Batista on the cover with his army shirt unbuttoned, many readers mistook him for a new baseball star). So back in 1940 we started painting symbols into our covers to help our readers recognize our man of the week more easily and to give them a clue as to why we had chosen him. Perhaps...
...nerve of the cavity-like omission in the President's statement: Have you any comment on the position of General de Gaulle? Mr. Roosevelt shook his head, negatively. In after thought he added: He wouldn't worry about it. It's all right. Then, in further afterthought three days later, he received mustached Andre Philip, Minister of Interior for the Fighting French...