Word: publicizer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...redblooded, straight-shooting minions of the law stood a pale blond youth named Buzzy. He was there to advise action-loving gangbuster fans not to join the ever-growing band of "stayouts" who decide each year that seeking their fortune in the world is more exciting than completing their public-school education...
...summer thick-thighed youngsters and greying masters of modern dance had been hard at work in their various sylvan woodsheds, chipping and chopping at works both new & old. Last week, some of the chips flew into public view...
...Christian. Veteran Jean Hersholt feels that the public would tire of kindly Dr. Christian if they had to look at him on TV week after week. He will do television, but on film, and no more than once or twice a month...
...emissary, Actor Henry Wilcoxon, had left Hollywood to turn on the downpour in 25 major cities. With him was Pressagent Richard Condon, who planned the campaign, and luggage containing 400 pounds of promotion material and special gadgets. Wilcoxon's mission: to pour it on for six groups of "public opinion leaders" in each city-women's clubs, churches and religious groups, school officials, fashion designers, manufacturers and retailers, the press, radio and TV and film exhibitors...
Castle officials trembled before the wrath of their superiors, who also trembled before the blows of the press and the demands of the public, all intent on discovering the plot behind Wheeler. When Scotland Yard's best inspector reported that Wheeler was little more than a curious small boy, the inspector was told to look again. Wheeler himself suffered untold indignities: examinations, denunciations, investigations, and once even a bath...