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...TIME with a picture of himself on the cover. Said the cover caption: "For Ike relief, for Chicago chaos." A few minutes later, a White House aide handed the correspondent a small envelope. It contained a warm personal farewell from Ike and Mamie. In a tongue-in-cheek postscript, the President stoutly denied that on Darby's departure there would be "For Ike relief, for Chicago chaos...
THERE is an important political postscript to be written out of the summit conference at Geneva. Have the Russians been able to persuade President Eisenhower to run in 1956? I am sure that he is nearer today to decision to stand for re-election than he was before he sat down at the conference table...
...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...