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Likewise, New Yorker Music Critic Winthrop Sargeant attacked the suffix -wise, as in taxwise. He called it "a Madison Avenue locution which should be avoided by every civilized person." Author Basil Davenport grudgingly approved advise in the sense of notify. Even so, he ruled, it is permissible only "in business English and Army English, if there is any excuse for the existence of these bastard twins...
...Cover: Oil painting from life by Gerard de Rose. Background items include the spires of St. Basil's Cathedral in Moscow; a portrait of Nabokov's mother at 34, painted by Leon Bakst in 1910; tiles from a Russian version of Scrabble; a brown wood nymph butterfly, and on the novelist's shoulder, a small blue Lycaena argiolus...
...gambled $71 million, loaned by the British government, on the concept of the ship as a floating resort hotel for young Americans willing to spend an average $72 a day for "the first vacation city that isn't tied down." "With this ship," says Cunard Chairman Sir Basil Smallpeice, "we are out of the transportation business and into the leisure business...
...HALL OF FAME (NBC, 8:30-10 p.m.). First rebroadcast since 1961 of Victoria Regina, with Julie Harris as Queen Victoria and James Donald as Prince Albert. Events in the Queen's life from 1837 through her Diamond Jubilee in 1897 are dramatized with aid from Pamela Brown, Basil Rathbone and Inga Swenson...
Perelman named his actor Basil Woolwine. He could just as well have called him Anthony Newley. In the latest case of lifelessness imitating artlessness, Newley continues his long love affair with Newley. Can Heironymus Merlcin Ever Forget Mercy Humppe and Find True Happiness? "is a real ego trip," says the Director-Writer-Star. But it is less a trip than a misfired space shot blasting $1,250,000 to ashes...