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...York, Chapman called Williams' charges "a lot of nonsense--just a publicity stunt." He said he had received congratulatory telegrams from prominent Republican leaders...
...served as house comic in a burlesque hall, gave a snake-oil spiel for a stunt-driving show, and worked the circuit as a comic diver-but when he was ordered to plunge 90 ft. into a 7-ft. tub of water, he quit, saying "Look. I'm getting $16 a week, and that won't even pay for the iodine." His first big-time comedian's job came at Manhattan's Club 18. a downstairs bin where everybody on the staff took part in the act. even the waiters and chef. One day Hollywood...
Levitation, until now just a cartoonist's gag, a magician's stunt or a children's trick, gained medical respectability last week with the publication of "the case of the flying pig" in The Lancet, most eminent of medical journals...
Cambridge Police Chief Daniel J. Brennan charged yesterday that the bomb scare before last Sunday's "Sing Out for SANE" was "a publicity stunt." He denied that the scare was staged by the Police Department...
...killed by a bolt of lightning that passed through his head. Safely insulated scientists have tried to duplicate Franklin's trick, hopeful that they can learn to cause lightning at will. But by last week even the U.S. Department of Defense was convinced that it is no small stunt to lure lightning out of a passing cloud...