Word: stunts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...when he fasted and prayed before announcing for the governorship. Cried Gus Scholle, president of Michigan's A.F.L.C.I.O.: "This business of trying to put on an act of having a pipeline to God in order to become Governor of Michigan is about the greatest anticlimax to a phony stunt that I've ever seen." Democratic Governor John Swainson rebuked Scholle, and reminded the public that he himself had been until World War II a member of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, an offshoot of the Mormon Church that admits Negroes to its priesthood...
...York, Chapman called Williams' charges "a lot of nonsense--just a publicity stunt." He said he had received congratulatory telegrams from prominent Republican leaders...
...served as house comic in a burlesque hall, gave a snake-oil spiel for a stunt-driving show, and worked the circuit as a comic diver-but when he was ordered to plunge 90 ft. into a 7-ft. tub of water, he quit, saying "Look. I'm getting $16 a week, and that won't even pay for the iodine." His first big-time comedian's job came at Manhattan's Club 18. a downstairs bin where everybody on the staff took part in the act. even the waiters and chef. One day Hollywood...
Levitation, until now just a cartoonist's gag, a magician's stunt or a children's trick, gained medical respectability last week with the publication of "the case of the flying pig" in The Lancet, most eminent of medical journals...
Cambridge Police Chief Daniel J. Brennan charged yesterday that the bomb scare before last Sunday's "Sing Out for SANE" was "a publicity stunt." He denied that the scare was staged by the Police Department...