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...years ago a British wit named Stephen Potter published a little book called The Theory and Practice of Gamesmanship (TIME, Sept. 6, 1948)-a waggish study of how to win games "without actually cheating." Last week, in School and Society, a U.S. dean did much the same thing for "Academic Respectability"-how to attain it without actually knowing how to teach. If members of the profession will only follow a few simple rules, writes Dean H. T. Morse of the University of Minnesota's General College, such respectability is assured...
...ration its output to dealers. Last week, Haas was planning to build still more factories-farther east. Like old Levi's Levis, Haas's Levis still bear the familiar boastful trademark-two horses vainly trying to pull apart a pair of pants. Now & then, some waggish farmer actually hitches up two horses and pulls a pair of Levis apart. "Whenever that happens," says Haas, "I always send the farmer another pair...
Died. Ernest Lessing ("Ernie") Byfield, 60, waggish Chicago hotelman (the two Ambassadors, the Sherman) and nightclub impresario (the Pump Room, the College Inn); of a heart ailment; in Chicago. Hotelman Byfield once defined the perfect hotelman as the "master of opposites. He needs to be a greeter and a bouncer, pious but ribald . . . noted as a connoisseur and competent as a plumber...
...Three Hearts. The U.S. position was summed up by a waggish Washington newsman as having three hearts-the hard heart, represented by Treasury...
...skits and spiels, which are the backbone of a prosperous revue, break the back of this one. The least trying sketches garner what laughs they get not through witty comments but through waggish props. And Co-Star Bert Wheeler (Rio Rita), chatting before the curtain, is seldom much fun. His patter droops...