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...flavor which separates this book from other Bemelmans, however, is derived from the title ploy, identified as "The Delicate Art of Self-Aggrandizement"--previously discussed by the English wit, Stephen Potter, as "Lifesmanship...
Bemelman's Cucuface is a practicing continental, edition of Potter's Asquith, a man who almost never pays the dinner check, a man who rides first class and doesn't pay. After explaining to Bemelman's the importance of being important, he tags him le Prince de Baviere, and teaches him the way of the gambit...
...during these sections of the book that Bemelmans is at his best Where Potter's people were academicians. Bemelman's characters are active, alive in that continental atmosphere which the author catches so successfully. When Cucuface and the director of the Restaurant Lucullus tangle over the bill, the entire staff stops operating, breathlessly waiting to see how Cucuface will get out of the bill he has so gallantly picked up. He succeeds, the gallery nods appreciatively, and goes back to its duties...
Presenting the oral argument for the Marshall Club will be William A. Carroll '49 and Richard A. Myren. Opposing them are Joseph R. Cortese and Phillip C. Potter, Jr. '48. All these men are in the third year of Law School. The remaining five members of each club have prepared the briefs...
Linewriter. The Potter Instrument Co. of Great Neck, N.Y. announced a "flying typewriter" designed to keep pace with the flying thoughts of electronic computers. Instead of working laboriously, one character at a time, it prints whole lines at once, 300 lines per minute, on a paper band. It takes its information from the coded magnetic tape that races out of the computer. Heart of the machine is a continuously spinning disk with the necessary letters and numbers on its rim. The machine's electronic innards translate the magnetic dots on the tape into groups of characters, 80 for each...