Word: ballyhoos
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...beat newsman was under greater strain than Major General Donald N. (for Norton) Yates, U.S.A.F., handsome, gregarious commander of Florida's Air Force Missile Test Center. For it was Meteorologist Yates, 48, who established the uniquely personal working relationship with Cape Canaveral newsmen which last week averted the ballyhoo and garbledy-gook that witlessly inflated the first Vanguard flop into a propaganda debacle for the U.S. As it turned out, last week's detailed, accurate coverage of the U.S. Army's satellite triumph-after the event -not only vindicated General Yates's patient diplomacy, but mollified...
...source of exuberance is that, rather than seeming sung or danced or chanted, a lot of production numbers seem spieled or shilled; they have a contagious carnival air, a ballyhoo rhythm. Opening with a jingly, jabbery railroad-car recitative of traveling salesmen, the show soon catapults Actor Preston into River City. There he first catches the town's eye with a kind of stylish evangelical pitch called Trouble, then clutches the town by the lapels with a rousing Seventy Six Trombones. Later in a gay, public-library ballet, Preston soft-shoes a hard sell of love-making...
Stung by a barrage of editorials charging that Pentagon ballyhoo had witlessly buoyed up hopes for a successful Vanguard launching, the Government last week tucked the missile program back behind its security curtain. At Alabama's Redstone Arsenal, Army Ballistic Missile Agency people were even forbidden to talk to the press on any aspect of satellite plans, whether classified or not. Defense Department Pressagent Murray Snyder announced that future missile shoots will not be announced in advance, nor will newsmen on the spot be helped by officialdom...
...ballyhoo the first birthday of his Oscar-smothered epic movie Around the World in 80 Days, Showman Mike Todd held "a little private party" in Manhattan's ballooned and festooned Madison Square Garden. On the promise of a mighty spectacle plus food, champagne and free gifts (from Japanese dolls to a Cessna airplane), Pitchman Todd conned 18,000 suckers in evening wear into the Garden, conned CBS-TV into paying some $300,000 to carry the shambles to the nation, conned most of the gifts and goodies without cost from publicity-seeking businessmen. When the colossal display of vulgarity...
After reading all that ballyhoo, I still don't like Murrow or his programs...