Word: informativeness
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...your issue of Dec. 29 you inform your readers that ". . . TIME finds itself unable to tell its readers freely and frankly all the things it knows." In time of war that is just as well. In the same issue there appears a typical TIME article: "Civilian Defense-Confused & Unprepared." Is this article wise, considered and constructive in time of war? How carefully did you consider the effect that it would have in enemy countries...
Gold Coasters vociferously denied any psychopathic tendencies at their House. Mr. Little prepared to inform the Bureau of its mistake and return unanswered the forms asking for the number of manic-depressive, schizophrenic, senile and traumatic patients--also alcoholics...
...Navy Department deeply regrets to inform you that your son, Ensign Philip R. Gazecki, United States Naval Reserve, was lost in action in the performance of his duty and in the service of his country. The Department extends to you its sincerest sympathy in your great loss...
Last-punched CBS's canny News Chief Paul White: "If your cablegram implies that you feel a correspondent has no right to inform his home office of his working conditions, then it is obvious that a correspondent does not have sufficient freedom of speech to enable him to work intelligently...
...sixty of the best orchestra musicians he could find, hired himself a hall, and set to work. The conductor and musicians were trouble enough, but it was the hall that caused the real headache. It seems that in renting it out to the Orchestra, the owners had neglected to inform the hall's former occupants of the change. Since these former occupants were prize-fighters who used the balconies for workouts, and were in the habit of carrying some of their more battered compatriots across the stage to the dressing-rooms, no little trouble ensued. A collective sigh of relief...