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...more advanced students of Lifemanship, Potter offers the Question Gambit and the "What a Pity" Probe, but for all-round utility, he recommends "plonking." Writes Potter: "If you have nothing to say-or, rather, something extremely stupid and obvious-say it, but in a plonking tone of voice-that is, roundly, wisely, and dogmatically; or take up and repeat with slight variation, in this tone of voice, the last phrase of the speaker." Thus...
...Belvedere Goes to College. Clifton Webb resumes his supercilious career as an all-round genius (TIME...
...comedians. Their dance numbers, though more sedate than ever before, are enchanting examples of the breezy, sophisticated style which they themselves brought to perfection. In his best solo routine-a bit of high-powered choreography in a shoe shop-Astaire proves that at 50 he is still the best all-round heel-totoe man in the business. The rest of The Barkleys proves that Ginger (who, like the heroine she plays, has had her fling as a dramatic actress) is still the best movie dancing partner that Astaire has ever...
...polo jargon, one notch short of perfect. For handicap purposes, rated players are graded each year by the polo association of each country on the basis of all-round performance, from zero goals...
...Colombian politicos did not seem disturbed by the virtual shutdown on wildcatting. Their country was bigger than Venezuela, they reasoned, with coffee, gold and other cash products besides oil. Many even argued that an oil boom would hinder the country's all-round development, and pointed to oil-rich Venezuela's deficient agriculture and industry for proof. "What will Venezuela have to show for lying supine before the drillers?" snapped a young Colombian oil-ministry bureaucrat. "Holes, that...