Word: stunted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Louis department-store show window one day in 1932, Fred Allen, a reformed juggler, made his television debut. The performance was part promotion stunt for his touring show (Three's a Crowd), part demonstration of a new gadget called Sanabria Giant Television,* which transmitted a fuzzy image of Allen to an audience on the store's third floor. "I just stood there and talked," Allen recalls. "It must have come out on the screen like a jumping passport...
...visitation was a publicity stunt staged by Chicago's Grant Advertising, Inc., which, with 21 offices in 17 lands, bills itself as the world's biggest international ad network (56% of its accounts are foreign).* Last week, at a meeting of its 21 foreign office managers, the hucksters swapped yarns on how admen's problems and solutions vary in different lands. Samples...
Thanks for your May 18 story about Christopher Draper, England's "Mad Major.'' True, a rather pathetic tale of stunt flying, but let's give the old boy his due - once upon a time he was the Bill Bridgeman [TIME, April...
...raise the needed funds, Chatô has turned the whole pressure of his 28 newspapers, five magazines, 19 radio stations and two TV transmitters on Brazil's other millionaires. Last week Chatô pulled off his flashiest fund-raising stunt: a fiesta on the cruiser Almirante Tamandaré (once the U.S.S. St. Louis) in Rio Harbor. Piped aboard from gigs and barges came Senators, ministers, governors and industrialists, together with their ladies. Chatô greeted them, fed them Beef Stroganoff and champagne punch, and made a speech...
...Passed a resolution, retroactive to March 1, 1803, making Ohio a state. There was no real doubt about Ohio's legitimacy (although a congressional oversight left a technical doubt about the exact day on which the state was admitted to the Union); the resolution was a publicity stunt by Cleveland's noisy Representative George Bender to attract attention to Ohio's sesquicentennial celebration this year...