Word: informativeness
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That's a real fact. "Courtship makes a man spoon," Don will inform his listeners, "but marriage is what makes him fork over." McNeill himself has no monopoly on the maize. Comedian Sam Cowling (a 23-year man on the show) is the author of a regular feature called "Fact and Fiction From Sam's Almanac." Says wise old Sam: "The distance from the head of a fox to its tail is a fur piece...
Prince Norodom Sihanouk, neutralist Cambodia's chief of state, is not only plagued by the threat of Communism and the problem of providing for his five million people, but also by far more personal cares. "This is to inform all dear citizens," Sihanouk told his subjects in a recent communiqué, "that a number of families lately came to tell me of their sufferings. They complained that His Royal Highness. Prince Norodom Yuvanath, who is my eldest son, had gone to bed with their daughters. On learning this I was sorry for the honor and future of these girls...
...play is woefully to misread the role. York is not comic; he is piteous. At any rate Patrick Hines brings to York not an interpretation, but a dozen interpretations. I have not the haziest idea what sort of codger Hines takes York to be. And someone should inform Hines that, in Shakespeare, the word 'issue' is not a sneeze...
Popping a Precedent. Never before in Pulitzer history have Columbia's trustees vetoed a board recommendation,† and never before have the annual Pulitzer prizes failed to anoint a biographer. To compound the mystery, the trustees popped their veto without bothering to inform anyone-even the advisory board-in advance. Then, as questions flew, the trustees took refuge in silence...
...Information Minister M'hammed Yazid hastened to inform newsmen that "we are all very fond of one another and on the best of terms." But Premier Benkhedda, watching a hundred thousand Moroccans lining the seven-mile route to Rabat and screaming "Yaeesh Ben Bella!" (Long live Ben Bella), could well be wondering if the return of an old comrade might not mean the rise of a political rival...