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...Failure of Gamesmanship. Using paddles with soft, sponge-rubber faces that take the ping out of pingpong but slice off some wicked spins, the agile and tireless Japanese wasted no time taking the Swaythling Cup. They stuck stubbornly to their unorthodox "penholder" grip (which makes for an awkward backhand), but attacked so steadily that their opponents could seldom smash to their weak side. "Yoshi! Yoshi!" (Good! Good!) the partisan crowd cried each time a Japanese scored. Japanese women players stopped and bowed low every time they scored on a net cord shot or bounced a winning shot off the edge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Yoshi! Yoshi! | 4/23/1956 | See Source »

...courses. If the college considers papers to be a really valuable stimulus to education, it must hire more graduate students to perform the drudgery of grading. In this way, it will develop the ability to work out a problem thoroughly instead of the now prevalent hour exam spirit of gamesmanship...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tissues of Truth | 4/13/1956 | See Source »

...British Humorist Stephen Potter's advicemanship on the ploys of gamesmanship, see TIME, Sept...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 6, 1956 | 2/6/1956 | See Source »

Despite the "Russians smiling at Americans" observed by Skater Jenkins, international rhubarbs kept Olympic diplomats exercised. The Soviet's state-subsidized "amateurs" tried some gamesmanship, hinted that Canadian hockey players were pros. Everyone wanted to start first in the men's giant slalom, before the course was all cut up. An Italian-German hockey game ended in a brawl...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: For the Glory of Sport | 2/6/1956 | See Source »

...Rachel Adams (see cut), a woman to keep her own counsel, has already moved on to another ploy in the intra-family gamesmanship: Can her husband tell the difference between Vermont and New Hampshire maple syrup? Tentative decision...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 30, 1956 | 1/30/1956 | See Source »

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