Word: potterer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Larry Brownell pulled the squash upset of the year yesterday, eliminating Art Potter, Navy's third-seeded entry in the National Intercollegiate Singles Tournament at West Point...
...teammate Henry Foster in the final of the tournament two years ago and took top honors last year, will have no serious challenger, and Captain Dave Watts has an excellent chance of meeting him in the finals. Yale's Bob Dewey and Blair Murphy. Princeton's Roger Campbell, Bob Potter of Navy, and Dick Squires of Williams are entered, but Ufford has between all of these men. He has never lost to any of them in varsity competition, in fact...
...Stephen Potter-One-Upmanship...
When Schweppes asked him to take over, he was "intrigued." The first thing he did was get more sugar by a series of complicated trading transactions, "all legal, of course." Then he began to advertise heavily with Schweppigrams* and hired Stephen (Gamesmanship) Potter to write pun-laden ads about an imaginary locality called Schweppshire, with such landmarks as Schwepsom Downs, Schwepping Forest and Schwepstow Castle (noted because "Queen Elizabeth Schwept here"), and peopled by such notables as the poet Schwinburne and the author of the "Schweppshire Lad." With such high jinks Hooper tripled sales, and profits last year Schwept...
...expected yesterday, Charlie Ufford and Dave Watts won their matches in the top two positions. Ufford topped Art Potter 11-15, 18-15, 15-13, 15-8. Watts defeated Tim Seabloom...