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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wiliest space grabbers ever to bamboozle an editor, New York Press-agent Jim Moran, 51, has found a needle in a haystack (after 82 hr. 35 min.), hatched an ostrich egg (19 days on the nest), sold an icebox to an Eskimo and two snow-blind fleas to Paramount (for use under klieg lights), to pitch himself or a client into the newspapers. Last week Moran was landing in print again, on a coast-to-coast search for "the happiest girl in America-a girl as happy as a Lark." His client: Studebaker's Lark...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: The Silent Bird | 8/24/1959 | See Source »

...Minneapolis Moran's bird failed to sing. Minneapolis Tribune City Editor Robert T. Smith puckishly printed a straight-faced story that ran through a whole catalogue of cars without using the one word that Moran was trying to get into print-Lark. Smith's story...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: The Silent Bird | 8/24/1959 | See Source »

...MORAN Flushing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 15, 1959 | 6/15/1959 | See Source »

Penn State's Ed Moran should dominate the mile, since he has run 4:02.1 to lead the nation's collegians in this event. The Crimson's Jed Fitzgerald could place, however, Moran, with a 1:49.6 to his credit, and teammate Chick Kink, who has done 1:49.8, should finish...

Author: By Michael S. Lottman, | Title: Crimson Track Team to Threaten Favorites in IC4A Championships | 5/29/1959 | See Source »

Playhouse 90 (CBS, 9:30-11 p.m.). A play about Chicago's St. Valentine's Day Massacre of 1929, during which Al Capone's men drew a murderous bead on Bugs Moran and succeeded only in killing seven other guys...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA,TELEVISION,THEATER,BOOKS: From Hollywood | 12/15/1958 | See Source »

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