Word: potterer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Married. Stephen Potter. 55, bony British humorist famed for his puckish "man-ship" books (Gamesmanship, One-Upmanship, Lifemanship); and Mrs. Heather Jenner. 39, blonde, bestselling (Marriage Is My Business) British authority on courtship; both for the second time (her first ended in divorce after her husband accused her of adultery, naming Potter as corespondent); in London...
...picture. The industrial ratio of engineers to factory workers, which stood at one to 100 during the late '20s, has increased to one to 60, and is rising with every new automated process. But though the BLS retracted its 1949 warning, the damage was done. Says A. A. Potter, engineering dean emeritus of Purdue: "I've talked to high-school counselors no more than three weeks ago, and that BLS report was still in their minds." High-school training is another cause of the shortage. Training in the sciences and higher mathematics should begin no later than...
...three children, visited his parents, who lived in the same village, cut his daily beer intake to ten pints. "It's lovely, on the sea," he said. "You can spit right into the sea from our window, and we frequently do - all the time, in fact. I potter in the morning. I'm a very good potterer. I shop, I go to the village, and speak to people...
...onetime literary, sometimes sanguinary critic for London's News Chronicle, British Wit Stephen (Gamesmanship} Potter disclosed, in the New York Times, the Borgian tactics of his former trade in a piece called "The Art of Reviewmanship." Essence of the art: "How to be one up on the author without actually tampering with the text." In ex-Critic Potter's sardonic view, the problem boils down to showing that "you yourself . . . should have written the book, if you had the time, and since you hadn't, you are glad that someone has. although it is obvious that...
From adjacent Nassau County, Medical Society President Stuart Potter snorted: "Shocking and deplorable." Vice President Samuel Freedman of the New York County Medical Society said that the situation "is to be deplored and is not condoned." The city's board of health jammed through an amendment to the sanitary code, stipulating that doctors' prescriptions must show the age of each patient to receive the vaccine. "This," said an official, "is to shame the doctors into following the voluntary priority...