Word: hucksters
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...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...
...Sexes turned out to be one more sorry chapter in the story of the ancient struggle between sclerotic age and limber youth. In three straight sets that lasted 2 hr. 5 min., Billie Jean King, 29, the pride of women's tennis, briskly dispatched Robert Larimore Riggs, the huckster who had hustled the world of spectator sportsmen into believing that you really can go home again...
Driesell should know. A huckster most of his life, he owes his success to a unique mixture of sweat, salesmanship and show biz. Raised in Norfolk, Va., he won a varsity letter as a third-grader for managing the equipment of the Granby High team. At Duke University, he rode the bench as much as he played but figured it helped him become "a better coach 'cause it made me hungrier." After graduation, he coached the Granby High varsity for the princely salary of $4,000 and became a two-time state champion-in the sale of encyclopedias...
...SEND ME TO PRISON cried the full-page ad in the New York Times, but that last desperate appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court appeared to be in vain. Ralph Ginzburg, huckster-publisher of diverse periodicals (including the defunct Eros, Avant-Garde, Fact and the current Moneysworth) is due to enter federal prison this week...
...point or another, Jack had a white wife and an Indian wife, worked as a huckster of phony patent medicines, was a famous gunslinger, a Cheyenne hero, a scout for Gen. Custer, a drunk, a hermit, a pious churchgoer, a great lover, a mule-skinner, a shopowner. He also toyed with suicide...