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...quite perceptive here except in the case of Tales of Hoffman. Of course, most of his worsts, like Alice in Wonderland and Robert Taylor in Quo Vadis, are sitting ducks, but the placing of Mario Lanza under the banner, "biggest argument for stricter immigration laws," is a clever ploy. Lampy shows his baser side only when he calls Franchot Tone "most miscast" for Tone's portrayal of a Boston Brahmin in Here Comes the Groom...
...Ploy's the Thing...
Canny Harry Hopman, nonplaying captain of the Australian Davis Cup team, seemed to be giving U.S. Captain Frank Shields a splendid lesson in Gamesmanship,* Down Under style. As a full-time tennis writer for the Melbourne Herald, Hopman based his opening ploy on the U.S. warmup performances. His particular target: Vic Seixas, who, he said, had "foot-faulted a number of times" without being taken to task. U.S. Captain Shields showed himself no mean Gamesman in return by promptly retorting: "When Harry resorts to such tactics as this, I think it indicates only that we've got him worried...
...South. Experts of all kinds are the Lifeman's deadly enemies. One simple ploy (or gambit) against them is the Canterbury Block...
Another excellent conversational ploy is to pose an esoteric question and then rapidly answer it oneself (having, of course, looked up the answer beforehand), e.g., "I wonder what the expectation of life of, say, an advertising agent of thirty really is-at this moment of time, I mean." This, however, should be tried only by experienced Lifemen, as the gambit, like all gambits, has its answer or "counter-life," e.g., "I should have thought that question had lost validity in our contemporary context," or possibly, "I wondered how long it would be before somebody asked that question...