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The more haste, the less speed (Proverb) It's animal week, this week, here on My Word. And it's answer to correspondence week as far as I'm concerned on this side of the house. Now, as you can

On another occasion, a movie with a stellar cast working at the top of their game was ruined by an illustrious veteran director, who one day openly admitted to me that he was only still directing to

Ross Walsh has found a way to scam scammers. The Irish man received one of those emails asking for money. He replied and said he was trying to send it, but somehow, he said, his transfer was not going

Players could get a Trump Card, become an Island Ambassador at the Sands, or join the Officer's Club at the Showboat. These frequent-gambler cards carried a magnetic strip on the back, like those used

He could forget whether the U.S nuclear advantage was on land or sea, but he remembered to take care of the White House squirrels, filling his pockets", with acorns collected for them at Camp David.

Stanislas Lefranc, a devout Catholic and monarchist, was a Belgian prosecutor who had come to the Congo to work as a magistrate. Early one Sunday morning in Leopoldville, he heard the sound of many

April in Paris (Vernon Duke and E Y Harburg, 1932 song) I'm not likely to forget it. I'd like to use the opportunity afforded by this quotation to make an urgent recommendation to the authorities

At two hours long, The Other Man was ITV's longest ever TV play. There was a cast of two hundred, sixty of whom had speaking parts, a twenty-minute stop for the news and several commercial breaks.

People in "Schitt's Creek" are stuck with an embarrassing town name. But it's TV. It's fictional. In Austria, though, there is a real village named [expletive] - rhymes with ducking. It's been the

The next morning, bride and groom were joined in holy matrimony, and in total intoxication. Richard showed up drunk; Deboragh arrived an hour late and, according to Richard, "had to be revived after

Late Tuesday afternoon, the NSC's security officers arrived to seal up North's office. As they came in the door, Fawn Hall suddenly remembered, to her horror, that she had failed to finish the job of

One of the more forgettable of American presidents, Chester A. Arthur was an amiable man whose highest job, only a few years earlier, had been as collector of customs revenue for the port of New York

A decade ago, the World Health Organization called for the exclusion of the riskiest bovine tissues - cattle brains, eyes, spinal cord, and intestine - from the human food supply and from all animal

There's no fire without some smoke (Old Shropshire life by Catherine Milnes Gaskell) I have a sad story to tell. I feel I owe it to the world to explain why there is no annual Christmas bazaar in

If you danced at the Ad Lib club just behind the Empire Cinema on Leicester Square, as I did, the Rolling Stones and the Beatles might be grooving around next to you. David Bailey would be in the

Kevin Martin was picking up dinner last weekend when he heard a loud sound under his car. He had driven over some potholes, which left him with four flat tires and a $600 repair bill. Frustrated, he

Richard Pryor was picked to cohost The Mike Douglas Show for a week. A few months before he had appeared on the show as part of a panel that included Martha Mitchell, the free-talking wife of Nixon's

Belgians were even more upset when it became clear that their king was spending much of his newfound wealth abroad. He was soon one of the largest landowners on the French Riviera, where he built a

"Most and probably all of the distinctive infectious diseases of civilization have been transferred to human populations from animal herds." -William H. McNeill, Plagues and Peoples'" Humanity's