Word: stunting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Chief Frank Terwilliger ("only don't call me Frank"), in contrast to his confrere, is a real Westerner, claiming Lake Tahoe, Nevada, as his home address. Prospector, gold miner, Holywood stunt man, forest ranger--he has at one time or another been all of these. Instead of working his way through college by hashing, selling clothes, or firing furnaces aces, he worked his way through two years at Nevada School of Mines by mining gold and silver at Carson City and Virginia City. After this he gave prospecting a try, trudging through various parts of Arizona, New Mexico Colorado, California...
Chennault was a pursuit pilot with ideas. His famed stunt team (the "Three Men on a Flying Trapeze") thrilled air-meet crowds. But its purpose was serious: to impress on the Air Corps the value of precision pursuit operation. The conservative Air Corps command paid little or no attention to these and other Chennault ideas...
...asked what that might mean. "It means," snarled a sergeant, "you can relieve one WAC for active service." The next time up, Sonny again recited his litany of disabilities. A draft official asked, "What do you do?" Tufts said that he worked for Paramount. "Oh," nodded the official, "stunt man." Said an attendant, as Tufts went out, a 4-F for keeps: "Don't sneeze, Bud, when you're going down the stairs. You might fall apart...
...architects and designers, Westinghouse engineers displayed: > Brilliant fluorescent lamps, not attached to any wiring, carried freely around the room. The energy that lit these wireless lamps came from a high-frequency radio beam generated by a physician's ordinary diathermy set. (Westinghouse admitted that this was a stunt, said that wireless electric power might not be commercially practical for many years. But the Federal Communications Commission is already planning to reserve part of the postwar radio spectrum for wireless heating and cooking.) > An electric heat lamp. Resembling a flat-lensed sealed beam headlight, with a 750-watt bulb inside...
...first day of football practice at Columbia in 1938, photographers hauled out an old archery target. To get stunt pictures, they placed Quarterback Sid Luckman 25 yd. away and told him to toss passes. Six times in a row he hit the dead center of the four-inch bull's-eye. In seven years of college and pro football he proved that he was just as accurate under gridiron fire...