Word: potterer
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Somehow I suspect that Stephen Potter wrote Sense of Humor because he thought he must. As the most popular humorous writer in contemporary English prose, his readers look to him for some kind of definitive comment on humor, which he surely does not give them in Sense of Humor. Mainly an anthology of various scraps of humor since Chaucer, it reels pompously though eight hundred years of English literature in search of some kind of principle. The most amusing thing about the book is that Potter could just as well have written his opening sentence, "The day of English humor...
...that the author doesn't realize the short-comings of his book, for he describes it as "a collection of pages of English writing which I have enjoyed." These selections are indicative of Potter's good taste and wide reading, but of little else. It is a tribute to Potter's prestige that such a book has been published and sold. I think now that he has broken the ice that we may expect a "From Bunyan to Benchley" from S. J. Perelman, and soon after that, "Two-Line Jokes Which I Have Liked Best," by Bob Hope...
Last week, with appropriate regret, Army Secretary Robert Stevens accepted the resignation of John G. Adams as the Army's counselor. A central figure in last year's Army-McCarthy hearings, Adams resigned less than a month after Michigan's Republican Senator Charles Potter announced that he was redoubling his efforts to get both Adams and Stevens out of the Pentagon. "I have not resigned," replied Adams at the time, "do not expect to resign, and have not been asked to resign...
Charles E. Zeitlin '53 and Samuel B. Potter '53, representing the Jaffee Club, have won the Ames Competition qualifying round award for the best brief by second-year in the Law School. Potter also won for oral argument...
...news than to foreign dispatches; few parts of newspapers are read with more scrupulous devotion by woman readers. Once, metropolitan society newshens concentrated on the doings of the very few-a group rigidly defined by such social dictators as New York's Ward McAllister. Chicago's Mrs. Potter Palmer, Denver's "Unsinkable" Mrs. Margaret Tobin Brown,* San Francisco's Ned Greenway. But changes in American life and the hard realities of newspaper circulation-building have transformed the face of U.S. society news. Running a society page, explains Detroit News Women's Department Director Gordon Dixon...