Word: humoristic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...British Humorist Stephen Potter introduced a new approach to sport with his 1947 book, Gamesmanship: the Art of Winning at Games Without Actually Cheating (TIME, Sept. 6, 1948). Since then, he has applied his subtle new strategy to other departments (e.g., Guestmanship) in the never-ending game of life. Last week in Britain's learned medical journal, the Lancet, Philosopher Potter considered some likely gambits in the ancient game of Doctor v. Patient...
Mark Twain would be only half right today: a good many people are now doing something about the weather. The humorist could see the change at time has made by visiting the Blue Hill Meteorological Observatory. There, on the highest point (625 ft.) between Massachusetts and Florida, withing ten miles of the ocean, Professor Charles F. Brooks and his staff worry about weather all the year round...
...late great American humorist, Ring Lardner, left four sons. They all became writers. Jim died in Spain, fighting as a member of the International Brigade-the last American to enlist, and the last to be killed. David served as a war correspondent for The New Yorker, was killed in Germany when his jeep ran into a minefield. John is a sports columnist for Newsweek. The fourth brother, Ring Jr., last week went to jail...
...This business has ruined me for thinking," bestselling Humorist Max (Sleep Till Noon) Shulman complained to the Hartford (Conn.) Courant. "Every time I start thinking, a little voice intrudes and whispers, 'Hey, maybe there's a story in this somewhere...
Divorced. Marion Hargrove, 30, best-selling wartime humorist (See Here, Private Hargrove); by Alison Pfeiffer Hargrove, 27; after 7½ years of marriage, two children; in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico...