Word: postscripter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...national institution-the oldtime movie cowboy, exhumed by TV, exalted on boxtops and enriched by millions of worshiping, gun-toting little fans. In fairness to Hopalong Cassidy, who dispatched deputies to a Hollywood screening to see if M-G-M had poisoned his waterhole, the studio adds a postscript to the film: "This picture was made in the spirit of fun and was meant in no way to detract from the wholesome influence, civic-mindedness and the many charitable contributions of Western idols of our American youth...
...Late. He tries to repair his broken marriage, but it is too early for him and too late for his wife. She has a stillborn son, and dies soon after. Here the story ends. In a pathetic postscript to it, addressed to the son he never knew, the hero finds a moral in his experience...
...much less see it whirl ... I hope that this will be a warning to you and to many other credulous gentlemen not to take seriously . . . the sensational nonsense that is sometimes published about the so-called Mysterious East." Delhi's Hindustan Times added its own tart postscript: "Our American friends are ... sometimes no better than grown-up children . . . Believe it or not, Americans can believe anything...
Adding his own postscript to the report, C.E.D. Chairman Marion B. Folsom, treasurer of Eastman Kodak Co., summed up the job for management: "Everyone [must] receive, and feel that he is receiving, a square deal...
...this Harry Truman, avowed optimist, added a conditional postscript as he chatted in the officers' mess at Fort Benning, Ga. The world could escape "that third one," said he, so long as an armed U.S. pointed the way. "I believe in preparedness to prevent hostilities in the world at large," he declared. "It took us two wars and 30 years to find out that our place in the world was one of leadership. Now we want to maintain that leadership for peace and the welfare of the world . . . and I am just as sure as I stand here that...