Word: stunting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Invented in 1927 as a circulation stunt by the News's able columnist and onetime sports editor, Paul Gallico, Golden Gloves tournaments promptly substantiated his theory that each contestant had ten friends who would buy the News to read about him, got the News unexpected publicity when other papers recognized it as a bona fide sports event. The Tribune held its first Golden Gloves tournament in 1928. Newspapers in some 50 other cities copied the idea. That this year's bouts were more one-sided than usual was not due entirely to the fact that Chicago...
Friday evening--Final for the 50-yard free style, 8.30 o'clock; final for the 150-yard back stroke, 8.40 o'clock; stunt competition--a demonstration featuring novelty aspects of swimming; final for the 220-yard free style swim, 9.10 o'clock; one-meter low board diving final, 9.20 o'clock; and final for the 300-yard medley relay...
Lord Beaverbrook's moneymaking, stunt-loving London Daily Express was not so generous, Rabbi Yankel Vallach of Lodz not so greedy, as TIME (People. Feb. 25) would have them. If Rabbi Vallach told the Express all he knew about his brother, Soviet Commissar Litvinoff, for 100 zloties, he received a mere $19 and not $1,900-a sum which would have made the good rabbi an exceedingly rich man among his people in Lodz...
Focal points of the meet for Harvard will be the mile-run, the 1000, and the performance of Eddie Calvin. Calvin does an iron man stunt tomorrow night, competing in four events -- the dash, 300, relay, and broad jump. If the can hit the form of his Sophomore year, the meet is Harvard's Running against Yale two years ago, he won 15 points by taking firsts in the 100, 200, and broad jump...
...this week is decidedly the brighter half of the offerings. Kitty Carlisle who has stepped gracefully from New Orleans to front line chorus to Hollywood and the arms of Bing Crosby sings in manner attractive. Phil Cook hasn't changed in all these years. There is also a bicycle stunt of considerable skill...