Word: stunting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...brilliant musical propaganda stunt was pulled off last week by Polish-born Conductor Artur Rodzinski and his Cleveland Symphony Orchestra. From the works of Hitler's favorite composer, Wagner, Dr. Rodzinski exhumed a stirring overture, Rule, Britannia (based on the tune of the famed British patriotic song of the same name), dedicated to the British by Wagner in 1837, and gave it the musical works. By way of introducing it to his audience, Dr. Rodzinski said he doubted that the Nazis remembered the existence of their idol's opus...
...Week. With taxes pressing, and inferior garments in the stores at rising prices, U.S. women thronged in uncountable thousands to sewing classes-held by mailorder houses, department stores, schools. More than 150 radio stations were using the sewing-instruction leaflets (ten lessons) published by the National Needlecraft Bureau. Typical stunt: L. S. Ayres, big Indianapolis department store, four weeks ago changed its Tuesday broadcast from Shopping Service of the Air to Ayres' Sewing School of the Air. One radio announcement brought 1,811 applicants in three days, 3,000 by the end of the week. The class...
...editor in chief, Louis B. Seltzer (who took over in 1928 at the age of 28), believes in a big local staff, fewer comics, serials, contests, syndicated features. His brightest stunt in local coverage was aimed at Cleveland's numerous foreign-born: a reporter, sent to Central Europe each spring and summer, carried thousands of messages from Clevelanders to relatives in the old country, brought back news of their doings for the Press. The Press has increased instead of diminishing local coverage, even in wartime...
Unwarranted and unsound, the ban on corsages imposed by two House winter dance committees threatens the livelihood of the florists of Harvard Square. To the committees, "no corsages" are a part of a promotional stunt. That stunt, to us, is a matter of life and death. In place of a corsage, there is a compulsory inclusion in the ticket price of a payment toward a defense bond lottery...
Tommy Ayres was the only scorer in a listless first period. Early in the second stanza Captain Dick Mechem pulled the best stunt of the game, skating through the entire Hebron squad for the second score. Then Hebron's defense fell completely to pieces, and the Yardlings rang up three tallies in less than two minutes. Stan Collinson, Dick Whittington and Dave Farrell netted the puck in the Crimson spurt...