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British Humorist Stephen Potter introduced a new approach to sport with his 1947 book, Gamesmanship: the Art of Winning at Games Without Actually Cheating (TIME, Sept. 6, 1948). Since then, he has applied his subtle new strategy to other departments (e.g., Guestmanship) in the never-ending game of life. Last week in Britain's learned medical journal, the Lancet, Philosopher Potter considered some likely gambits in the ancient game of Doctor v. Patient...
...this conflict, of course, the doctor always has the advantage of his specialized knowledge. "An intensely annoying ploy [gambit] often used by doctors," writes Potter, "is to treat Patient not only as if he knew nothing about medicine, but as if he were as ignorant of all anatomical knowledge as a child of four. Doctor will start, for instance, speaking very slowly, with 'you see, the heart is a sort of pump,' and will then imitate the action of a pump, unrecognizably, with his hands. Or he will refer to the blood corpuscles as 'the white fellows...
Family Reunion. In Martinsville, Va., while looking for the family he had deserted 23 years ago, 72-year-old George Potter got drunk, ended up at the local prison farm, there happened upon his son, who was rounding out a year's sentence for grand larceny...
Died. Maxence van der Meersch, 43, Flemish-born French novelist (Invasion; Hath Not the Potter, which won 1936's Prix Goncourt), in Le Touquet...
September. In Norwalk, Ohio, Mrs. E. M. Potter placed a classified advertisement in the Norwalk Reflector-Herald: "Notice to the Curious-Car parked in driveway at 9 Jefferson Sunday belonged to relatives from Akron...