Word: stunting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...most enthusiastic Shavian gave him little chance to repeat, especially in a field that included such highhearted and heavy-footed drivers as young Rex Mays, who earned the favored pole position with his top qualifying speed; Kelly Petillo, only other onetime winner (1935); 44-year-old Cliff Bergere, Hollywood stunt man who finished in the money seven times in twelve starts; Mauri Rose, 1936 national champion; Ted Horn, among the first five for the past four years; and Joel Thorne, daredevil New York millionaire who placed seventh a year...
...musician unionisis had to suppress grins when Local 77, Philadelphia, demanded and held tryouts for a musician to fire a cannon during the Tschalkovsky "Overture 1812" . . . New York scribes are listing Lester Young's solos (Count Basie) as being by "Jack Hoak" . . . Orchids to Red Nichols for the clever stunt of mailing all the record critics in the country five pennies separately with an announcement of more to come and then a nickel painted red with publicity about Red Nichoin and the Five Pennies...
...stunt first performed by white Old-timer Rube Waddell...
More than a year ago the New York Post, as a promotion stunt, sold albums of symphonic records, at $1.93 per set of three or four, to coupon-clipping readers...
...German stunt is a series of features based on previous English-American troubles (Revolutionary...