Background
Mead, Edward Shepherd was born on April 26, 1914 in St. Louis. Son of Edward and Sarah (Woodward) Mead.
(This satirical handbook for fellow Americans is a guide t...)
This satirical handbook for fellow Americans is a guide to the nuances of British culture in the 1960s. Deftly illustrated with dynamic cartoons, it's packed with gems on Anglo-American differences and pithy advice which tells us as much about the British of the 1960s as it does about their visitors from across the Pond.
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(Spy, counterspy, Casanova, and technological Machiavelli,...)
Spy, counterspy, Casanova, and technological Machiavelli, Mark Price is an agent for big business's latest headache, Industrial Espionage. His exploits as he goes about exposing a monstrous conspiracy against the industrial heart of America are at once wild, hilarious, and deadly serious. Along the way he tangles with an assortment of zany characters, including a trio of engagingly odd and highly sexed charmers and a patriarchal embodiment of the American Dream, before his ingenious sleuthing culminates in a shattering climax in the best comic tradition of the Marx brothers.
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( You'll never learn from any tennis pro the nuggets of i...)
You'll never learn from any tennis pro the nuggets of inside advice Shepherd Mead shares with you in this helpful and entertaining book. Mead learned most of these tips while dragging a typewriter, a family, and a tennis racquet through nine tennis clubs and a number of nations. * Are you now--or are you in danger of becoming--a Tennis Untouchable? Check out the seven types of Untouchables that Mead has met in tennis clubs and see why few, if any, other tennis players ever ask them for a game. * Would you like to learn the sure way of having more people eager to play with you? Better find out what Mead has to say about the difference between spoiling and stretching. * Maybe you've dreamed of beating players who always seem to win more matches than you do. The Mead brand of psyching by brain-boggling is quite possibly your answer. * But suppose an opponent tries to brain-boggle you. The author's bag of tricks includes ways of instant mediation that will confound the perpetrator. Mead even offers five tips how to correct your game while a match is under way, and something you'll use time and again--a magic word. * How's your doubles game? Maybe it would improve if you followed Mead's advice on how to capture, tame, and train partners. * Then you'll read how to train yourself, how to watch tennis (clue: don't always watch the ball), tennis fun and games, how to use tennis to further your ends, sex and club tennis, and the language of tennis.
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(From the Author of HOW TO SUCCEED IN BUSINESS WITHOUT REA...)
From the Author of HOW TO SUCCEED IN BUSINESS WITHOUT REALLY TRYING When Shepherd Mead retired from the vice-presidency of a large Madison Avenue advertising agency at the age of 41 he was a 'haggard, shaking old man in a Gray Flannel Suit.' That was back in the middle 1950s. Today he is 'at least a month younger' than he was when he made the drastic decision that there were better ways and places to live. How to Stay Medium-Young Practically Forever Without Really Trying is a distillation of the expertise and wisdom he has acquired since he embarked on his new life. Aside from its attractions as sheer entertainment, it is laced with a variety of off-beat advice on such matters as: * How to Burn the Candle at Both Ends and Stay Nice and Warm in the Middle; * How to Beat the Male Change of Life; * How to Avoid Exercise; * How to Travel Like a Lord; * How to Handle the New Woman; * How to Take the Subtle Differences Between English, French, German and Italian Girls in Your Stride; * How to Cope with European Culture (in which he shares with the reader his ingenious Museum Cart Plan); * How to Be a Medium-Young Creative Artist - the best way of all to stay medium-young practically forever.
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( In this challenging book, the author of the celebrated ...)
In this challenging book, the author of the celebrated best-selling How to Succeed in Business without Really Trying (which inspired the Pulitzer Prize-winning musical), provides a daring and amusing antidote to those Doomsday prophets who believe that man is destined to destroy himself and planet earth. Shepherd Mead quickly proves that "natural" isn't necessarily good; demonstrates how to use "population" against people (or just how many can we stand?); and describes how to become a scourge of environment-busters. Highlighting his narrative with amusing and telling anecdotes, Mr. Mead discusses new energy concepts, sophisticated waste disposal systems that reclaim everything (even the garbage), frozen and instant electricity, multispectral photography, and some far-out ideas of his own in the area of communications and do-it-yourself ecology. In a lighter vein, he suggests a Pleasure Index as a replacement for GNP (Gross National Product); describes how we can keep people from a future that's already in the past; how the future home can be an electric and electronic paradise (or hell, depending on the individual viewer); electric education and the university in decades to come; improving people through "germinal choice"; benevolent brainwashing; the Shepherd Mead Symbiotic Super Box, transduction, and advanced cloning. Then there's the very special Magical Population-Reducing People Crib (it's really wild and guaranteed to discourage childbearing); Super Sports Heroes of the Future (part man and part animal - like the greatest middle distance runner in history who won an Olympic gold medal and the Kentucky Derby. And he can run with or without a jockey. Or the great Australian female high jumper who qualified with two kids in her pouch, but was later disbarred when she was caught shaving). Sexual-social problems in the future also come under the keen scrutiny of Mr. Mead. What will become of sin when we have pleasures (outlined in intimate detail) that are not sinful according to the current rules - but are many times more ecstatic than those associated with sex? Mr. Mead presents an exciting new Sexual Bill of Rights; provides tips on how to condition your wife/husband to get him/her to bow to your will; how to make a mistress of your computer - and how Doomsday can help us all.
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(A reading companion to Shepherd Mead's "How to Succeed wi...)
A reading companion to Shepherd Mead's "How to Succeed with Women Without Really Trying" featuring the original artwork by Claude Smith.
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( In 1958, ad man and soon-to-be best-selling author Shep...)
In 1958, ad man and soon-to-be best-selling author Shepherd Mead moved to England with his family to pursue his career. Six years later, his observations on the oddities of British culture were enough to compile a satirical guidebook for fellow Americans planning to visit from across the pond. The blunders that could befall them were many. For instance, explains Mead, “Pants are always underpants and what you wear out in the open are trousers. Mistakes in this area can lead to nasty misunderstandings.” Structured around the fictional Brash family—Peggy and Buckley Brash and their two children—the book, originally published in 1964, includes chapters on such topics as “How to Dress in England,” “The Dream House and How to Rebuild It,” and “How to Live with the Upper Classes Without Having Any Money.” Through the Brash family’s encounters with the British and their amusingly bewildered conversations as they attempt to interpret this alien way of life, Mead answers with obvious affection and quirky humor such questions as “Is England really a pest hole?” and “Do English schools create sex madness?” Written with Mead’s characteristic incisive wit and illustrated with the original dynamic cartoons, How to Live Like a Lord Without Really Trying is packed with pithy advice that is equally revealing of Britain in the 1960s as its bemused American visitors.
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(From this classic tome, learn everything you need to know...)
From this classic tome, learn everything you need to know to succeed with women without really trying: - How to be irresistible in short pants - How to break-up - How to avoid marriage until marriage can help you - How to select the first wife - How to keep your wife in love with you - How to handle money in marriage - How to select the second wife First published in 1957, this guide is a timeless and humorous manual for men of all ages who seek to become irresistible to women.
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( From the author of How to Succeed in Business Witho...)
From the author of How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying this is the story of women becoming inexplicably pregnant. And it happens to every type of woman, regardless of race or creed, from nuns to lesbians. It happened to Beauford Abel's wife. With her, a perfume tester called; one of his more exotic samples made her black out for a split second. At least, she thought it was a split second... When Beauford eventually figures out what's going on, he plays amateur sleuth. But instead of finding sex maniacs, he finds brainy apes planning to invade the earth. And the brainy apes are clever enough to ask Beauford to handle their PR. They'd like to be liked when they land. And they'd like the baby apes that earth women will soon be giving birth to, to be liked as well. You might think this is a pretty funny way for invaders to act. In this book, everything's funny.
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Mead, Edward Shepherd was born on April 26, 1914 in St. Louis. Son of Edward and Sarah (Woodward) Mead.
Graduate, St. Louis Country Day School, 1932. AB, Washington University, 1936.
Script editor Benton & Bowles, Incorporated, New York York City, 1936-1941. Copy supervisor, vice president television copy chief, 1944-1956. Retired, 1956.
(From this classic tome, learn everything you need to know...)
( In this challenging book, the author of the celebrated ...)
(From the Author of HOW TO SUCCEED IN BUSINESS WITHOUT REA...)
(Spy, counterspy, Casanova, and technological Machiavelli,...)
( You'll never learn from any tennis pro the nuggets of i...)
(A reading companion to Shepherd Mead's "How to Succeed wi...)
( From the author of How to Succeed in Business Witho...)
( In 1958, ad man and soon-to-be best-selling author Shep...)
(This is a new edition with an afterward by Michael Ritchi...)
(This satirical handbook for fellow Americans is a guide t...)
(The Admen Shepherd Mead 1958 paperback)
Member Phi Beta Kappa, Omicron Delta Kappa, Kappa Alpha. Clubs: Hurlingham (London). St. George's Hill Lawn Tennis (Weybridge, Surrey, England).
Married Annabelle Pettibone, September 18, 1943. Children: Sally Ann, Shepherd, Edward.