Word: stunted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...worked, between practice sessions, on an honors thesis on the Schuman Plan, won added honors-his second straight Olympic title-with some of the fanciest prances ever seen on ice. Explaining that "I can't copy anybody, because nobody has anything new," Button added his own new stunt to the figure-skating book: a triple-loop jump in which he takes off to three air-spinning gyrations and lands on the same foot with hardly any perceptible loss of speed...
...Fall) Williams, a rabid Dickensian, got the idea, not just of repeating the Dickens readings, but of impersonating the author-clothes, whiskers and all. A hit in London, Williams-like Dickens-began a U.S. tour in Boston, last week reached Manhattan. His success on Broadway was more than a stunt: it neatly blended novelty with nostalgia, proved Dickens to be a "dramatic" novelist, Williams to be a colorful Dickens in a studiously varied program...
...Bankhead and Fred Allen speaking such plugs for The Big Show. Others heard Kate Smith giving a boost for her show by phone. The voices were tape-recorded, but many a housewife was presumably thrilled to hear the stars talk; some may even have tuned in as suggested. The stunt was the kind that has become a trademarked specialty of a radio go-getter named Ted Cott...
...News was carrying the names as a "public service," but it was also a smart circulation stunt. The paper hit on the idea while getting together a series on income taxes a fortnight ago. When it heard about the unclaimed lode in a single district (Manhattan's Third), it sold the U.S. Treasury the idea of printing the names as an experiment in getting the refunds paid. The city desk assigned a special staff to compile lists of taxpayers owed $100 or more. The News expects to run the lists (totaling about 6,000 names) for almost two weeks...
While Betty warms up to the injured Wilde, a sexy elephant stunt-girl (Gloria Grahame) moves in on the eligible Heston. A jealous Prussian elephant trainer (Lyle Bettger), foiled by Heston when trying to plant an elephant's foot on Gloria's pretty face, joins a plot to halt the circus train and rob the cashier's car. He causes a gargantuan train wreck-for which De Mille demolished full-sized trains (TIME, May 7). The wreck not only awakens Betty's love for Heston and her organizing genius in effecting the circus's comeback...