Word: potterism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...death of the late great Arthur Vandenberg; Williams himself was elected by a bare margin. Unpopular outside Detroit, Moody is supported by the unions, but labor leaders are frequently unable to swing the Detroit election. This week, Republicans faced Moody with a tough opponent: Congressman Charles E. Potter, a legless war veteran who has the support of Michigan industrialists, is a member of the House Un-American Activities Committee. Williams' opponent is Fred M. Alger Jr., public-minded heir of one of Detroit's pre-automobile families and a strong candidate...
Charles Osborne's Dry Comb the entry in the second group is far more successful. Osborne employs the "beating the system" technique used to great advantage by Stephen Potter. The trick here is to discover a way of showing one's superiority over either people or institutions. Osborne has picked on the barbers. Like many others he dislikes the conversation that inevitably accompanies a haircut. His method of silencing barbers is both amusing and plausible...
Williams has apparently improved considerably since last year. The Ephmen had goalie trouble in 1951, but Coach Harvey Potter has now come up with Rod Starke, a sophomore who was an all-New England prop school goalie at Andover two years...
...graduate students have been awarded the Susan Anthony Potter Prizes in Comparative Literature for 1951 to 1952, it was announced yesterday...
...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...