Word: impromptu
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Information Please won this special dispensation because: 1) it is a scriptless, impromptu quiz show, hence cannot be rebroadcast later, like more predictable shows; 2) it is the star item on the Blue network, long considered a weak sister to NBC's Red network and lately the subject of the briskest build-up campaign in NBC's history. But to the suggestion that other big eastern shows now being rebroadcast might be recorded for the West instead, NBC's retort was: "Would you rather kiss a girl or her picture...
...Dorothy G. Mills Howard, a 37-year-old widow, is a junior high-school teacher in East Orange, N. J. She spent seven years in what many an educator would consider a shocking waste of time: sitting in school yards and on curbstones listening to the impromptu songs of rope-skipping kids. Last week, having also collected songs from assistant eavesdroppers from coast to coast, Mrs. Howard was ready to publish her collection. Folk Jingles of American Children.* It is not for squeamish readers. Sample...
...needed no protection. The crowd, including many women and children, began to yell "Vive Daladier! Vive la Paix!" Flowers were strewn in his path. An impromptu parade was organized for him. France had expected war at any hour. Few men bothered then to inquire what price had been paid for peace. Daladier struck while the emotion was hot, called the French Parliament to a short, 23-hour session to ratify what he had done. Presented thus with an accomplished fact, the realistic deputies voted approval 535-to-75, almost lone objectors being the intransigent Communists. So Edouard Daladier stayed...
...strange assortment of gifts was a gesture of good-will from the Independents to the Jewish fund-raising organization whose cause they supported at a meeting last week. The meeting was thrown into confusion by an Arab, Victor E. Sawabial, who opposed the Jewisk migration in an impromptu speech...
...bull escaped from a Brighton Stock yard, and after being mistaken by at least one motorist for a hippopotamus, attracted the attention of police. The officers of the law chased him to his impromptu field of battle and finally surrounded...