Word: postscript
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...physician hovering over him "I know you're a bum doctor, but you look like Tony Hart," the dying man muttered and closed his eyes in trusting contentment. Ned Harrigan's fans were no less staunch. A copy editor for the New York Telegraph added this personal postscript to a news column on Harrigan: "I'd rather hear Ned Harrigan sing one verse of the Mulligan Guards than Caruso warble his entire repertoire." Harrigan and Hart the merry partners, were the ruling entertainment team of the New York stage from 1871 through 1885. Declared a New England...
...Lake County (Fla.) school board added a sordid postscript to the saga of the Platt children (of Irish-Indian descent), who were barred from school in Mt. Dora because Sheriff Willis McCall arbitrarily decided that they are Negroes (TIME, Dec. 13, 1954 et seq.). By unanimous vote, the board fired Math Teacher Don Conway for giving his blessings to a high-school student petition urging that the Platt children be allowed to stay. Conway's only comment: "If giving the kids my moral support in what I consider a Christian act is guilt, then I guess...
...dealings are really high-minded, that his sales-convention humor is funny, that his cliche-laden speeches are profound. He has the most dreadfully patronizing mannerisms that ever drove a wife (or a reader) to fury, and even when he tries to be tender, he just manages an Emily Postscript. "I wish you'd kiss me, dear," says Sylvia. "Why, certainly," replies Willis. "It will be a pleasure, honey." Yet just as Sylvia puts up with him, so in the end does the reader. For Author Marquand manages a highly skillful double-switch with the reader's emotions...
...Patterson found a fitting reward for the superb airmanship of flight 329's crew. To Captain E. W. Andreasen, 34, and Co-Pilot T. D. Boyle, 28, he handed bonus checks of $10,000 each; to Stewardess Pat Johnson, 28, he gave $2,500. He also added a postscript: United will pay the income taxes on the bonuses...
WILLIAM WYLER Hollywood 54 in '55 SIR: MY SINCERE THANKS TO BORIS CHALIAPIN AND TIME [DEC. 27] FOR A WONDERFUL CHRISTMAS PRESENT . . . POSTSCRIPT AS TO MY BEING A "CHEERFUL MONOMANIAC"-MAYBE so. BUT THERE'S ONE THING OF WHICH I AM SURE; I WAS ONLY...