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Modern Living. In Vienna, after touring Europe for a year inside a big glass bottle, Stunt Man Rudolf Schmied climbed out, told reporters that he had lost 60 lbs., but "there is little difference between life inside and outside the bottle...
...Weeks calls "just a readjustment" in the economy will by this time find four million persons unemployed and farm income off ten percent from December 1953. A man will jump out of a window on Wall St., causing nation-wide panic until it is learned that he was a stunt man for a documentary film about the twenties...
...Chicago Tribune, whose daily circulation has slipped about 20% in the last seven years from 1,076,045 in 1946 to 885,840 this year, decided to try an old circulation stunt to boost its sales. The plan was to give away free dolls for every three new subscriptions to the paper. But the circulation men reckoned without the Trib's aging (73) Colonel Robert Rutherford McCormick, who huffily frowned on the idea as undignified for the "World's Greatest Newspaper." The circulation men gently persisted, suggested that the dolls were really quite handsome, and urged the Colonel...
When Captain Idon M. Hodge Jr., 30, checked the tower at Dobbins Air Force Base, the operator told him that the field was still open and cleared him for an instrument approach. Hodge, leading a flight of four F-84s of the Georgia National Guard's crack stunt-flying team on a night-training flight from Miami, said he was starting down through the fog and rain. A moment later, the tower overheard one of Hodge's wingmen say: "I don't like this at all." Another pilot in the formation answered: "How do you suppose...
...want to be the only duffer at the 25th reunion who had never missed a Yale game? Anyway, didn't Jordan Olivar say last week that it was just another football game. The mere thought of Olivar set Vag to cursing him for that asinine Yaeger stunt...