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...privilege to know Stephen Potter, captain of all gamesmen [Dec. 12]. But he got me one-down by a mistake. In his Lifemanship (1950), a footnote to the "Yes, but not in the South" variant of the Canterbury Block reads: "I am required to state that World Copyright of this phrase is owned by its brilliant originator, Mr. Pound...
...protested to Potter as soon as the book came out that I had sent him the original in 1947, when his Gamesmanship had been published: an article entitled "Not in the South," which I had written in Punch, May 28, 1941, long before I knew Potter or had heard of gamesmanship or lifemanship. And I told Potter that I would like to meet this usurper, Mr. Pound, whoever he was, behind the fives court...
...Potter's letter to me of November 8, 1950, says: "My God, have I got it wrong? I now perceive with horrifying clearness that 1 have ... I will guarantee complete acknowledgment in the second edition. Of course I would meet you behind the fives court myself but for my old heart trouble...
...course Potter had no "old heart trouble." That was a bit of good gamesmanship. But alas, he never did correct the attribution, and I would so have liked to have my name, even in a footnote, in one of those great books of his. Mr. Pound -pshaw...
Died. Stephen Potter, 69, the greatest contemporary gamesman of them all (see MODERN LIVING...