Word: ballyhooed
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...employers and unions alike know that ballyhoo alone is not the cure. Unions emphasize the impact of bad scheduling and materials shortages upon worker morale : why beat your brains out today when outside causes will lay you off tomorrow? Such layoffs have indeed occurred all too often. The deer-hunting season, for example, coincided with material shortages so severe that General Motors instructed its plant superintendents to let any worker go who wanted to shoot deer. Result: G.M.'s "absent for personal reasons" figures soared. Poor transportation, bad housing, lack of household help also discourage workers from regular attendance...
Saluting the new development, King Features' President J. V. Connolly cried: "Striking innovation!" Variety, ever detached, headlined the news: BOOK PUBLISHERS BORROW SHOW BIZ TACTICS IN HIGH-PRESSURE BALLYHOO...
Then an operatic uncle suggested that Sanders try nightclubs and the stage. Six months' hard training developed his excellent baritone (which Hollywood has never used) and a job in the musicomedy Ballyhoo, which "flopped in rather a hurry." Later he sang One Alone for "every chorus audition in town." ("In the chorus I knew that if you look fairly eager you always get a chance to understudy, and as understudy I tried with varying success to get the principals drunk. In short, I progressed...
Blunt, news-nosed Gene Howe is a colorful, individualistic publisher who is not averse to a bit of honest ballyhoo. Nobody outside the Navy-least of all a newspaper-had ever won a Navy E for recruiting, but Gene ("Old Tack") Howe's Amarillo (Tex.) Globe-News had one-gratefully awarded by the head of the Dallas naval recruiting district, husky Lieut. L. H. Ridout Jr., for recruiting a special squadron of 60 "Skybusters" (naval aviation cadets). Last week he lost...
...husband's walnut-treed, swimming-pooled, press-agent-free acres in San Fernando Valley. If Sam Goldwyn is right, this tranquil double life will not last. Says he earnestly and grammatically, apropos her role in Pride of the Yankees: "She doesn't need much ballyhoo. Far better the public should discover her. They will. She's got it inside, things you can't learn...