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...more. At Chicago's Morgan Park High, a Methodist preacher broke in on a strike rally at a vacant lot, told the students they would be striking against the U.S. Constitution. He talked most of them out of it. Chicago's Mayor Ed Kelly termed the strikes "prank" stuff. A handful of Chicago civic groups hurriedly put on a city-wide "Youth Rally," starring black & white entertainers (Danny Kaye, "Bojangles" Robinson), to get kids back to class...
Last fortnight the New York Times's C. L. Sulzberger wrote a piece to the effect that Soviet Russian statesmen act very much like their merely Russian predecessors. For illustration, he told of a prank played by William C. Bullitt when he was U.S. Ambassador to Moscow (1933-36). In the Embassy files, Bullitt found copies of the reports of Neill S. Brown, U.S. Minister to St. Petersburg nearly a century ago (1850-53). Bullitt changed a few names and details, sent the reports back as his own. The State Department took them for what they were: penetrating comments...
...convictions for sabotage. ("There was no evidence of foreign-directed acts of destruction. In almost all instances the sabotage was committed by individuals because of maliciousness, spite or as a prank...
...success, Publisher Délano could thank his own publishing formula: the satirical laugh gets more results than the solemn warning, the prank is more effective than the preachment. Topaze is never really nice to anybody. But neither is it ever very nasty. Sticking almost strictly to politics, it gigs Chilean politicos with biting irony or refined ridicule, has deftly wrecked many a political career. Two examples...
...business of getting Henry and his girl to and from a high-school dance is like moving an armored division into battle. If Henry plays an April Fool prank, it is virtually certain to assume vast, unanticipated proportions...