Word: gamesmanship
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...place, Comedian Bob Hope happily hammed up the job of host, and got the tournament off to a relaxed start from which, as usual, it never recovered. When Orchestra Leader Phil Harris outdrove him, Hope glowered at his red-capped, red-socked opponent and tried some freestyle gamesmanship. "You've turned sober on me," he accused Harris darkly...
...Vastly surprised to find himself leading Wimbledon Champion Lew Hoad in the semi-finals of England's Midland Counties tennis championship, a 19-year-old Briton named Michael Davies was moved to try an ingenious bit of gamesmanship; he walked around the net to say that he was defaulting. Prevailed upon to change his mind, Davies went back to whip the startled Aussie, 6-3, 4-6, 6-4. After that Davies had nothing left. In the finals he lost to South Africa's Trevor Fancutt...
...Conversation (Thurs. 8:30p.m.,NBC). What I'd Do if I Had Only Six Months to Live, discussed by Henry Morgan, Clifton Fadiman and Stephen (Gamesmanship) Potter...
...Upper Class? Last week, in a slim anthology of aristocratic manners edited by aristocratic Novelist Nancy Mitford (Noblesse Oblige; Hamish Hamilton), England got an answer that has managed to stir up everyone from Novelist Graham Greene to Actor John Loder. Not since Humorist Stephen Potter launched the cult of gamesmanship had the nation been so obsessed as it was over the difference between U (Upper Class...
Even with gamesmanship, Britain's Richard Bergmann could do little against the Japanese: he stopped one match to complain that the ball was too soft and not really round, took half an hour, examined 192 balls before he continued his play for the men's singles title. The winner: Japan's Ichiro Ogimura, in an all-Japanese final against Defending Champion Toshiaki Tanaka...