Word: stunted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...French officer named Lebrun pulled the most audacious stunt of all, one that depended on pure nerve and agility. A fine athlete, he was exercising in the courtyard. Suddenly, using a confederate's hands as a stirrup, he was sent flying and catapulted over the wall. Under fire, he reached the outside wire wall, cleared that and got clean away. A British officer later tried the same method and was shot dead...
Last week a real-life shoe salesman, Thomas Bata Jr. of the Czech shoe-manufacturing family, was confident that he could vastly improve on O. Henry's imaginary sales stunt. A new Bata factory (one of 37 in the free world) outside Lima will make 1,000,000 pairs of canvas and rubber shoes a year. Bata expects to sell them for 11 soles (70?) a pair through 46 stores and by circulating through the highlands demonstration vans with movies, native salesmen and balloons for the kiddies. "I think," Bata says, "I've got something better than cockleburs...
This Is Your Life grew out of a stunt performed on Truth or Consequences when the U.S. Army asked Edwards to "do something" for the paraplegic soldiers at Birmingham General Hospital. Edwards selected a particularly despondent young soldier and hit on the idea of presenting his life on the air, in order to integrate the wreckage of the present with his happier past and the promise of a hopeful future. Among the people brought before the mike were the boy's old track coach and the head of his draft board. Says Edwards: "It was just a matter...
...fizzled out. More seasoned correspondents cabled that Operation Smack had been carefully planned and valuable. It would have been carried out if there had been no visitors. Responsible Congressmen, after inquiry at the Pentagon, agreed that the operation, despite its unfortunate code name, was in no sense a publicity stunt. Military commanders in Korea were aghast over the furor. General Joseph Lawton Collins, Army Chief of Staff, back in Washington after a trip to the Far East, blamed bad reporting, defended Operation Smack as "sound and legitimate." There would be, he said, "many more like...
Although disappointed, William B. Van Lenner, curator of the Theater Collection in Houghton Library, refuses to believe that the sale was part of a publicity stunt. "She was in a jam and this was the only way out," he said...