Word: ballyhooer
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...receivership, into bankruptcy court went funny Judge last week with its $500,000 debts (TIME, March 14). Also in court appeared Publisher Clair Maxwell of Life, Publisher George T. Delacorte Jr. of Ballyhoo and a half-dozen lawyers representing unknown clients to bid for the purchase of the magazine. None of them got it. Instead the staff of Judge, headed by Publisher Fred L. Rogan, raised $17,000 cash among themselves, got their magazine back again free of debt. Immediately the staff set to work upon next week's issue, promised there would be no lapse of publication. Reputedly...
...order to protect the sensitive spirits of Kirkland House, the library has placed Mother Goose Censored, the Limericks of Norman Douglas, and James Joyce's Ulysses down in the vault from which they may be withdrawn by special permission of the Librarian. In order to get a copy of Ballyhoo one has but to go to the Common Room...
...brought to influence public opinion in favor of special interests, and that many individuals are finding their reputations entirely dominated by forces completely beyond their control, the committee believes that the "tremendously significant social phenomena" should be made available for study by the historian and student. While ballyhoo artists and press agents have existed for many decades, a new technician, the "public relations counsel," has been created, and occupies now much the same status as a doctor or a lawyer...
...academic circles, amused themselves by arranging our study in accordance with an American's concept of an Englishman's concept of an American college study. When we returned, Mr. Boyd-Carpenter found his couch surrounded by beer, gin, and whiskey bottles, the walls covered with choice excerpts from "Ballyhoo" and "College Humor." Mr. Boyd-Carpenter's conclusions bespeak the complete success of the "decor...
...Cambridge blaring the virtues of the candidates beneath the Georgian walls. The contestants, dressed in the height of fashion, blazing in House colors, hold banquets, giving away cigars, speeches, and spreading their ineffable personalities. Good spirits should not be forgotten, either. And then, after a week of Bacchanalian ballyhoo, the election is held viva voce...