Word: potterer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...limited number of U.S. correspondents a year ago, has not since renewed the invitation. On the assumption that the visas would be forthcoming, a number of old China hands began packing their bags. Among them: the Chicago Daily News's Keyes Beech, the Baltimore Sun's Phil Potter, the New York Times's Tillman Durdin, TIME-LIFE'S James Burke (who was a TIME-LIFE correspondent in Peking from 1947 io 1949). This week Radio Peking gave an answer that started some of them unpacking again. The Dulles decision to let U.S. newsmen into China, said...
...Bosley is genial as the psychiatrist, who believes that "we all have great unconscious wisdom." Joan Croydon repeats her warm Broadway interpretation of the priest's housekeeper. Adele Thane makes the most of Mrs. Potter's one scene. And Maureen Hurley brings the right amount of neuroticism to the part of Sara. Edmund Roney and Lawrence Spector give capable support as the prim banker and the easy-going roommate...
...probably underlain with a thick common bed of rich oil-bearing formations, forming a vast new oil domain, where a wildcatter could spend a lifetime drilling and not exhaust the chances of a new find. Said Phillips' divisional manager, D. L. Potter: "This opens up a virgin wilderness of vast potential...
Billy Graham gave him a dime, and the Rev. Dan Potter, executive director of the New York City Protestant Council, suggested that Graham move on to another group of derelicts. "I'm going to pray that you'll find God," Graham called back. "You'll never regret it." The old man nodded, got up from the sidewalk and walked away...
Larry Sears, playing his first varsity test of any consequence, came through at third singles in fine style to topple Guise Potter, 2-6, 6-3, 6-4. Potter, a few weeks previous, had defeated Miami's highly ranked Dave Harum, in Presbyterian's 5-4 upset of the Hurricanes. After losing the first set, Sears contented himself with keeping the ball in play and deep, and when he got the shot he wanted, hit for the winner...