Word: stunt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...office. Convinced of the young lady's good faith, the editors decided to take a sporting chance and see what could be done about her personal appearance in one week's time. Thus was launched a heroic course of beauty treatments and a smart circulation and merchandising stunt...
Famed in Chicago is Pianist Moissaye Boguslawski for the muff which he wears in winter to protect his talented fingers from the stiffening cold of Lake Michigan's bitter breezes (see cut). Another stunt of "Bogie" Boguslawski was to play for Chicago's Station WJJD all the piano music of Bach, all the sonatas of Beethoven, in what he called a "musical marathon." Beethoven took nine weeks, Bach twelve. Two years ago Mr. Boguslawski said the music produced by most contemporary composers "gave him the hiccoughs." Fortnight ago this ebullient musician came out as a composer himself...
Presently Eastern Air Lines' General Manager Eddie Rickenbacker, who played godfather to the whole stunt, arrived with a rescue party, persuaded the two to stop bickering, fly on together. Flyer Merrill at once telegraphed New York: "There is positively no truth in the rumor that Harry and I have any differences. We are closer friends than any two men living...
...parcel of minor U. S. racers, one foreign ace-France's huge, 31-year-old Michel Detroyat. Close friend of Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh, whom he was instrumental in rescuing from Le Bourget crowds after the New York-Paris flight in 1927, Detroyat is France's best stunt flyer, has twice almost killed himself in crashes. Last week, flying a tiny blue Caudron-Renault in which he set the world's onetime land-plane speed record of 312 m.p.h., he walked off with the preliminary Greve Trophy Race. This victory made Detroyat the overwhelming favorite, though...
...chief rubdown man, recently boasted to a Parliamentary commission that nine jockeys who rode in the last Grand National Steeplechase are his patients, including the winner. Cracked Orthopedic Surgeon Arthur Sydney Blundell Bankart of the British Medical Association last week: "Osteopathy is brute force-an ignorant American stunt...