Word: postscripter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...major vice"), Manhattan-born Morris was a notable Paris expatriate, at one time or another wrote in nearly every prose form, but achieved his real success in the late '40s as a nostalgic recorder of 20th century America ("the most exciting place in the world") in Postscript to Yesterday and Not So Long...
...Postscript. In Los Angeles, after giving a talk to the Optimist Club on "How To Train Your Memory," Sigmund Blomberg shook hands all around and departed, leaving his hat behind...
...year). Kiplinger and his staff turn out a fortnightly tax letter, a fortnightly farm letter, a monthly magazine Changing Times. Last week Kiplinger began filling a fifth gap. "Kip" had discovered that Europe gravely misunderstands U.S. economics, politics, and motives. His answer: a new newsletter. Overseas Postscript, to "explain U.S. trends to foreign businessmen...
Kiplinger's letter-writing style has nothing in common with Lord Chesterfield's. Like the other Kiplinger letters, the first issue of Overseas Postscript was composed in punchy, prophetic telegraphese. Sample topics: effect of a Korean truce on U.S. output (no "sharp recession, only a wiggle" downward), cuts in foreign aid. immigration quotas, book-burning ("The State Department is ashamed . . ."). Kiplinger, who thinks a newsletter should be a two-way affair, hopes to pick topics for later letters from reader requests for information...
...Pacific alliances, and thought Taft's proposal was a step forward-for Taft. Two ranking Administration foreign policy leaders in the Senate, Wisconsin's Alexander Wiley and New Jersey's H. Alexander Smith, liked the idea too, and promptly said so. Almost as a dutiful postscript, Wiley added that the whole treaty network, like NATO, should be undertaken under the U.N. charter...