Word: pitchmen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...students at Carleton College, Northfield, Minn., Executive Editor Gideon Seymour of the Cowles brothers' Minneapolis Star and Tribune (combined circ. 105,332) last week gave his considered opinion on certain columnists. "They are all journalistic racketeers-I mean pitchmen," said Editor Seymour. "They are like the oldtime medicine men. They have to produce a sensation...
...Lawton Story will get the same painstaking local promotion as Mom and Dad, and will wear the same trimmings. There will be an intermission for a "world famous lecturer," hawking another $1 pamphlet-"The Prince of Peace." Say the picture's pitchmen: "The film will move the most hardened sinner, comfort the most troubled." Says untroubled Live Wire Kroger Babb: "It's no sin to make a profit...
...matter how hard the public is to please, or how hard-to-sell the picture, Hollywood knows that it can count on exhibitors. Last week, as if to keep in trim for tougher times ahead, theater managers were pushing movies with all the zeal, noise and logic of oldtime pitchmen hawking snake...
Sixteen news-boys and girls, newly converted from the ranks of the Harvard Youth for Democracy, cried their wares from the Yard's many gates with unexpected success, as almost 400 copies of the infant publication were sold. Such inspired pitchmen as Jean Lo Corbeiller '48 loudly touted the sheet for browsing purposes "in that next dull class of yours...
Coney Island (20th Century-Fox). The Technicolor cameras of this picture will turn many a spectator green with envy. They have been allowed a prolonged fondling of Betty Grable. Behind and around her moves a recreation of vintage-1905 sporting life with a noisy host of roisterers, pitchmen, barflies, and by-no-means-innocent bystanders. Miss Grable's tunes, dances, and virtually unprintable person will take full care of the general public. Film epicures will also be ravished by unoriginal but wonderful color-camera work on the gaudy, splendidly researched subject of oldtime Coney-Island...