Word: stunted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Dore Schary's cost-cutting regime was just what the big brass at Loew's, Inc. (MGM's parent company) wanted, that Mayer was becoming a stranger in his own house. Last week the Hollywood Reporter's Bill Feeder tried an old newsman's stunt. He telephoned Mayer to express his concern over the expected departure and Mayer admitted that he was thinking of a change...
...little difficult at first for some to believe that the offer was not just a pressagent's stunt. A New York Times sports columnist summed up the reaction: "Fight for nothing? Who? Sugar Ray Robinson? Oh, no! It can't be. There must be some angle there!" But if there was an angle, Robinson rounded the corner on two wheels, gunned down a new straightaway. He now thoroughly enjoys his new personality as the responsible citizen. He is a big man in Harlem, a political power, who is often on the phone with his good friend Mayor Impellitteri...
...first, a great many spectators had been yelling in fun, apparently in the belief that they were watching a publicity stunt for the Boston showing of "Fourteen Hours," a motion picture based on a death leap from Manhattan's Gotham Hotel. But as time passed, an excited, nervous tension seemed to build up among the craning throng. "Jump!" they yelled. The voices in the street kept on for one hour and 35 minutes. For one hour and 35 minutes people peering from a window of the room nearest the boy fought against the crowd in a kind of insane...
Photographers, barred from the hearing room except for recesses, had a hard time cracking Witness MacArthur's studied immobility of feature. Suddenly one lensman tried an old stunt. "General," he said, "your tie's crooked." As the general looked down, 40 flashbulbs went...
Last week Lieut. Hodgkin, an elderly party (42) as the stunt-flying business goes, pulled on his long underwear, loaded his plane with blankets and took off to conquer Washington's sullen, 14,408-ft. Mount Rainier, fourth highest peak in the continental U.S. A friend in another private plane flew alongside just to keep an eye on him. Hodgkin's tiny plane toiled upward. About 400 ft. from the summit Hodgkin cut the gun, headed downhill into the shrieking updraft and settled in to a neat landing on a shallow slope. "It was easy," he said later...