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...life. Lindbergh had left the University of Wisconsin midway through his sophomore year to take a course in flying, bought his first plane (for $500) a year later, and qualified as a pilot in the Army Air Service. As a barnstormer, he walked wings, became a master of every stunt a Jenny could be put through. Landing was just a matter of picking the likeliest-looking pasture; navigation was done by spotting the shape of rivers, or sometimes by swooping low over the railroad station to read the signs...
...College to coed Emory, insists that "at Scott, when you got out into the world you went berserk," while at Emory, "I act more ladylike-even my language is better." At Christian College, a women's school in Columbia, Mo., Student Susan Hoffman declares: "Girls' schools retard, stunt and warp your social growth and maturity. Every time you see a boy, it takes about a week to recover." Why then do students choose an all-girl or an all-male school? Answers one Vassar junior: "I knew Vassar was all-girl when I came here...
...Super Showman Cohen did not miss a schtick. Searchlights raked the sky; a 25-piece band blared Give My Regards to Broadway. Limousines glided up to the theater on 800 sq. yds. of red carpeting. Unlike the Emmy and Oscar awards, which grind on endlessly, honoring the best stunt man to fall off a burning building in a foreign independently produced black-andwhite wide-screen musical comedy, the $450,000 Tony spectacular restricted the on-camera awards to just twelve categories, devoted the rest of the time to full-dress performances from the four best-musical nominees...
...never said them, especially mayors and top officials who cannot politically afford to issue a denial. MRA will also take full-page ads in newspapers and then later cite them as though they were regular news articles. The Times of India was especially incensed when MRA pulled this stunt...
...twice shown on a hospital cot, reaching out to a wide, white wall that becomes the face of the nurse, as if he were a fantasy of her unborn child. Time and again, Bergman appears to have his film improperly spliced, showing blinding flashes of lights and numbers. The stunt reminds his viewers that the work is simply artifice, a game of poses and disguises...