Word: pranks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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HOLLYWOOD--Samuel Goldwyn, the movie producer, was recovering today from the shock of a Scottish collegiate prank which carried farther than its authors anticipated. Goldwyn was advised today that he had been nominated for the position of Lord Rector of Glasgow University. Careful checkups with London officials seemed to substantiate the notification. Then cable dispatches from Glasgow disclosed the Goldwyn nomination was part of the annual student fun-making which accompanies nomination of a rector. They also had nominated Haile Solassic...
...death was just a peeved little boy. And like any severely spanked little boy, wanting sympathy, he took the colossal modern manner of calling attention to his troubles. That he should carry out his grand gesture, is the fault of the City Fathers who turned this little-boy prank into a three-ring circus, by roping off the streets and permitting photographers to lie untrampled on their backs, instead of keeping lanes open and business functioning as usual. Newspapers and national broadcasters screamed invitations to all and sundry to come to the Big Show, instead of pleading with the public...
...Prank-loving Student
...weren't long distance at all. ... It all came out in the early wash the day after the letter arrived that a member of the chemistry class which released the balloon had connived with a pen-pal in Singapore to mail the letter, which he himself wrote. The prank-loving student felt the qualms of conscience and 'fessed up when his classmates collected a sum of money to send to the "Chinese old man" to redeem the balloon...
Peter Foley was only moderately flushed by his 26-mile jog. Skeptics along the sidelines suspected that the grinning oldster was guilty of some capricious prank. But they were mistaken. White-whiskered, toothless Peter Foley, who weighs only 119 pounds but has a blacksmith's handshake, had actually run the full marathon distance. But he had started two hours ahead of the field...