Word: postscript
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...another Dow official that dioxin "is exceptionally toxic; it has tremendous potential for producing chloracne [an ugly skin disease] and systemic injury. . . I trust that you will be very judicious in your use of this information. It could be quite embarrassing if it were misinterpreted or misused." A postscript added, "Under no circumstances may this letter be reproduced, shown or sent to anyone outside...
Four men-a scholar, two former intelligence agents and Author Cornelius Ryan (The Longest Day)-died trying to write this book. There is no evidence of foul play in any of their ends, but the quadruple coincidence is a fitting postscript to the life of William J. ("Wild Bill") Donovan. Founder of the Office of Strategic Services, the nation's first spy agency, Donovan was a figure of epic personal courage, vast energy and enduring mystery. "What a man!" President Dwight D. Eisenhower declared when Donovan died in 1959. "We have lost the last hero...
...rushed to press, first in The New Yorker (the magazine which is so circumspect it begins its baseball coverage in Novembers--seven weeks ago and now in book form (Knopf even managed to squeeze in a three-and-a-half page postscript dated September 21 on the refugee camp massacre in a frenzy of greedy haste. One expects this sort of thing from the cheapest of publishers, those who catalogue the incineration of every organ of every boy of the men who died in the Iranian hostage rescue mission for consumption three days after the fact. Not two firms with...
...fact, Schaap says, Steinbrenner tried to quash the book, exhorting his friends not to answer the writer's questions (Most disobeyed.) Only when Schaap had completed the body of the book late this winter did Steinbrenner finally agree to talk to the author about his life. Unfortunately, the postscript that relates their nine-hour conversation does little besides confirm what Schaap has already made obvious: that the 51-year-old owner has always been obsessed with his public image and paranoid about his detractors...
...Corporation's formal reform proposal contains a postscript noting that under the new guidelines, the Citibank loan would probably not be considered humanitarian. It should be emphasized that a sub-committee of the ACSR and not the Corporation reached this conclusion was directly contradicted by Corporation member Hugh Calkins '45 both in his much publicized letter to the ACSR where he claimed the Citibank loan served a "worthy purpose," and in a recent Harvard Crimsoninterview where he invoked the opinion of "some" Blacks to justify the loan. If the Corporation dares to mention the Citibank loan in the same breath...