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...recalled that Donne had once bought himself some new clothes and set out for Hollywood; after he got back he never talked about it. He once wrote Garbo a letter; it came back stamped "Refused." The local probate judge estimated that lonely Hermit Donne was worth about $20,000. Postscript to the will: "If Greta Garbo becomes my wife, then it goes to Greta Lovisa Donne." One neighbor firmly believed that Donne was a descendant of Elizabethan Poet John Donne ("I must love her that loves...
...That's O.K. by us," grinned New York's irreverent tabloid Daily News, and suggested a postscript to the prayer...
Dahl's rare political gibes. It begins by noting that Mayor James M. Curley, who used to sue almost every time his name was mentioned in print, had been sentenced to jail for war-contract frauds. There follow six blank panels and a postscript : "No grounds for libel here...
...Postscript. This fanciful turnabout was answered last week by U.S. Chief Prosecutor Robert Jackson, in an address before the University of Buffalo. Jackson declared that the trial's fundamental justification lay in its attempt to outlaw aggressive war and to destroy "the old theory that international law bears on states and not on statesmen [shielded by] 'sovereignty.' . . ." He reasserted his belief that this interpretation was actually implicit in existing international law, which the Allies had merely strengthened. Said he: "At all events, whether they be regarded as an innovation or a codification, those principles are law today...
Then Jackson added a portentous postscript to the judgment: ". . . Germany is not the only country whose governing party has practiced this method [mass persecution of minorities, bloody suppression of all opposition] of maintaining itself. Opposition ... to existing regimes today will earn the same fate in much of eastern Europe as it did in Germany. . . . There is great need that the statesmen pick up where the lawyers leave off at Nürnberg...