Word: huckstered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...become an admirer of Glenn Turner, the Koscot cosmetics huckster from Florida, and became his lawyer and adviser. The Government charged Bailey also made speeches endorsing investments in Turner's franchises. When the law came down on Turner for conspiracy to defraud investors, Bailey was indicted too. The evidence against Bailey was thin, but he had to abandon virtually everything else and spend $350,000 and two years fighting the charges, which were eventually dropped after an eight-month trial in Florida ended in a hung jury in 1974. Although Associate Johnson kept the Boston office open, the Bailey firm...
...Huckster. The Seattle Opera is accustomed to thinking along several lines. In only eleven years it has become one of the major U.S. companies, largely due to the efforts of a former Golden Gloves lightweight from Omaha named Glynn Ross. He has been called everything from a publicity hound to the hip huckster of grand opera. He loves promoting. "Get ahead with Salome," read the shameless pun on one poster...
...sounds like a land huckster's pitch for a vacation-home development-but the property touted happens to be Otis Air Force base, and the idyllic description occurs in a slick brochure mailed by the state of Massachusetts to 1,500 corporations round the world. The state has been driven to this bit of hard-sell real estate promotion by the necessity of cushioning the impact of a federal economy drive on its citizens...
When the first issue of womenSports rolled off the presses last week, Billie Jean King appeared not only as cover subject and writer but as product huckster in four ads. Such full-court cover age is the prerogative of tennis' leading lady who, with her husband Larry, also happens to be womenSports' publisher. A cheerful blend of consciousness raising and coaching, issue No. 1 includes a guide to winning by Billie Jean and a doctor's report on the physical capacity of women to compete with men (highly favorable, except in contact sports). The first...
...resents the common scenario that has him playing huckster to Bob Evans' creative film artist. Evans is catnip to the press, and lately Yablans' patience has worn to the breaking point. He has tried to control Evans' image by demanding that they be interviewed jointly on all stories about the making and packaging of Gatsby. "Bobby and I work very closely, I am very fond of Bob," he insists. "But I am also frank about this whole publicity thing. I don't like any confusion about who is running Paramount. The name is Yablans...