Word: stunting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Stuart Kirby '43 of Rye, New York, and Weld Hall concocted the supreme publicity stunt of the year, involving the delightful combination of a "Ship-wreck Kelly" act high up on one of the trees in the Yard with a Radcliffe glamor girl waiting below, but all his well laid plans fell through when the girl demurred...
Coach Pete Peterson's Freshmen won a genuine thriller. The performance of Bus Curwen was outstanding, for not only did he win the 220 and 440, but anchored the 440-yard relay team to victory almost immediately after finishing his 5:38.5 quarter-mile. It was an iron-man stunt reminiscent of Charlie Hutter's 100-220-440 feat against Yale in 1937. Curwen was under orders to loaf as much as possible in the first two events and in the final contest his teammates labored to hand him at least a two second margin over his opponent...
Maney's most successful stunt was for The Squall, which opened as a floperoo. A line in the play ran "Nubi bad girl, Nubi stay." Reviewing The Squall in the old Life, Robert Benchley retched: "Nubi stay, Benchley go." Quickly Maney hoisted big ads reading: "See the play that made a streetwalker of Robert Benchley." The Squall ran over a year...
...before Earl Browder Spoke at Tech, he told the CRIMSON that he intended to dress up in a suit of armor, mount a eart-horse and ride down to joust with the Communist leader. He admitted yesterday that his resolution against Lenin was an even more effective publicity stunt...