Word: ballyhooer
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...picture industry. He has won 900 other awards and five honorary doctorates (though he never graduated from high school). The corporation bearing his name has grown fourfold in ten years; in 1965 it grossed $110 million-a 27% rise over 1964. The charitable foundation he established without fuss or ballyhoo has generously endowed educational and cultural activities in Southern California. Yet for all his laurels, Walt Disney at 64 is still the busiest man in Hollywood...
...exclamatory career on the front pages and the late shows, he gleefully presents himself as the meanest man in town-as "the Abominable Showman," a bold, bad Broadway producer with a rubber leer, a big black Groucho Marx mustache and a tongue that can tirelessly slice baloney and burble ballyhoo about such Merrick productions as Look Back in Anger, La Plume de Ma Tante, Gypsy and Luther. To publicize his shows, Merrick with truly hippopotamic cheek has sent sandwich-board men into the streets of Manhattan encased in portable placarded pissoirs; persuaded President Johnson to accept the title tune...
Bronzes & Bullets. Now that he had sold himself, he hired a pressagent to ballyhoo him as a "Bantam Barnum," a "Mighty Midget" and the "Basement Belasco." He went on to produce eleven Broadway shows (including Jumbo, Carmen Jones'). He opened a restaurant and a nightclub (Billy Rose's Diamond Horseshoe). He ran the Aquacade at the 1939-40 World's Fair. He became a syndicated columnist, peddling a unique amalgam of show-biz snappy sayings and schmalz. He collected art the way other people collect neckties-he once tried to buy the Metropolitan Museum...
...whose snappy dress and smooth talk have earned him the nickname "Slick," campaigned all over the state for the issue, acknowledging that his political prestige was at stake. Last month, in the wake of a Tampa Tribune report that the Gov ernor had requested $250,000 from contractors to ballyhoo the road pro gram, Florida's voters rejected the bond issue by a humiliating 5-to-3 margin...
...emphasis on light industrial goods: bicycles, radios, toys. The Chinese also showed off such major capital items as locomotives, turbine generators and transformers, but they were not for sale. Reason: they are too desperately needed at home to further domestic production, were included in the show strictly for ballyhoo. To some visitors, the poor state of the fair seemed evidence that Red Chinese industry is reflecting the strains of Peking's backing of Hanoi in the Vietnamese...