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...most thorough account ever written of that man-mountain of modern English letters. But Author Ward's book was hardly off the presses before she began to find fascinating new bits and pieces of Chestertoniana. Return to Chesterton is her 336-page postscript...
...postscript to his story on Sweden's "Well-Stocked Cellar" in our Dec. 31 issue, TIME Senior Editor Henry Anatole Grunwald sent a letter describing a reindeer sleigh ride in the wilds of Lapland. I thought you would be interested in reading part of it, because it is indicative of the far corners to which some of our editors penetrate when they take trips away from home...
...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...