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...Britain's top satirists, Stephen Potter, 55, in his puckish tomes on Lifemanship and Gamesmanship, has extolled the advantages of "oneupmanship" , (i.e., the use of the ploy, and the art of getting away with it). As one of Britain's top experts on courtship, Marriage Bureaucrat Heather Jenner, 39, in a recent bestseller called Marriage Is My Business, claims to have arranged some 5,000 successful matings. As a result of indoctrinating her clients with some mystical principles of reciprocal oneupmanship, only three of those matches, testifies Heather, have ended in divorce. Last week, however, a gentleman farmer...
...certainly does find it. For example, in the song Heather on the Hill, there is a line, "And all the clouds are holding still." Darned if they aren't, too. Because instead of photographing real clouds, the producer had some sets painted up so the clouds would be sure to hold still. For this reason also the hills look just like real hills, but bigger, and the lake is always the same color...
Furthermore, Brigadoon on the stage was a flash of tartans and gay Argyles; on the screen the scenes are smeared with a brownish heather mixture of Ansco Color...
...Jean Heather Marris Murray, daughter of a Scottish emigrant father and a South African mother, was born in Pretoria. An Oxford scholarship took her to England, where she worked as a free-lance journalist throughout World War II. The Fire-Raisers is her first novel but is written with a skill and confidence that make it close to the most impressive story yet about the South Africa of Malanism and apartheid...
...strange, graceful birds, fashioned of metal tubes and plywood or canvas, were again hovering over Orlinghausen Field, a heather-dotted plot of land in Westphalia which most Germans know well. There Germany took to the air in gliders, after the World War I victors had decreed that the conquered must not fly powered planes. There future pilots came to train, in a kind of Luftwaffe kindergarten. After World War II, the victors prohibited flying again, but lifted the ban on gliders two years ago. Last week Orlinghausen was the scene of Germany's first postwar gliding championships...