Word: stunting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Publicity Stunt...
...spectators. In all games their technique is the same: to try to get eight or ten points ahead of their opponents, and then exhibit their fancy ball handling, such as spinning the ball on fingertips, flipping it between legs, rolling it up one arm and down the other. Star stunt man is 37-year-old Inman Jackson, a 6 ft. 3 in. 200-pounder, who serves as the only substitute on the team, gets $300 a month plus a percentage of the gate receipts...
...TIME also might be wronger but not much in stating that "To Conestoga went teamsters hauling lumber, tooling the team with one hand, while they rolled a cigar with the other." I would suggest to son Jimmie that he have a movie made showing such a stunt (if it can be done) and show it in the . . . slot movie machine to be put on the market by Mills-Globe...
Michael A. Sullivan's abortive attempt to ban the performance of "The Fall of the City" and "Waiting for Lefty" in Sanders Theatre last Friday night was the pay-off on a publicity stunt which nearly backfired on the Student Union...
...greed for fish that led her astray, as she followed three undergraduates from her pool in the theatre to their waiting car. Only after talking with the Hollywood press-agent who had instigated the sealnaping, did she realize that this was only a stunt to prove that she had "more sex appeal than Ann Sheridan...