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More about Names and Faces

Ruth was a sweet and lovely girl and had many boy friends,
but her mother felt it was time she was married.
While reading a book on the meanings of names, Ruth said,
"Mother, it says here that Philip means 'lover of horses,' and
James means 'beloved.' I wonder what George means?"
"I hope, my dear," said Mother, "that George means busi-
ness!"

Now that you know how to make any name have meaning,
by using a substitute word or thought, you have to know
how to associate the name to the face in such a way as to
remember both of them. Many memory systems teach the
student to make a jinglet with the name; something like,
"Mr. Baker is a faker" or "Mr. Gold is old," or "Mr. Rad-
cliffe had a mad tiff," or "Mr. Lillienkamp is a carnival
tramp."
This is fine, until you meet a Mr. Nepomosimo or a
Mr. Smolensky. Even if you could create a rhyme with those
names, what I never could quite grasp is how this would
help you to remember the person's face, or rather, how one
would bring the other to mind. No, I don't think that this
jinglet system is of too great a help. In my opinion, the
only way to remember a person's name is to associate that
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