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...Postscript. In Cedar Rapids, Iowa, James F. Williams, 61, reported to police that Bride No. 15 (TIME, Aug. 20) and $920 were missing...
...this good news, Brigadier General Hines tacked a gloomy postscript: 52% of those who go into business for themselves fail within two years...
...opera house like the Metropolitan as a well-trained chorus or orchestra. For the paid applauders know precisely when to do their stuff-and thus set the audience a well-mannered example. When a booming aria comes to a thrilling finish, and is then succeeded by a delicate orchestral postscript or a bit of crucial drama, a well-trained claque can hold the audience in check until the proper moment, then lead it into a crescendo of enthusiasm...
Unfinished Writer. The total effect of A Haunted House is saddening. It adds a postscript to the story of Virginia Woolf. That story's end was more melodramatic, more Elizabethan, than anything that she or her contemporaries wrote. The daughter of the editor of the Cornhill Magazine, with James Russell Lowell for her godfather (she received no religious instruction), with Hardy, Ruskin and Gosse for family visitors and her sister Vanessa for companionship, she was educated at home, too delicate a child to stand normal schooling. Her mother died when she was 13, her father when...
Last week the Navy added a postscript: nearly 1,000 men of the Helena's complement "today stand fit and ready to fight again." Some of them, oil-smeared and haggard, were picked up near the ship's grave. Others got to nearby islands, lived with the resourcefulness of good fighting men, were finally retrieved. They went to other ships, other stations. But they were still Helena men, would always...