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...first, a great many spectators had been yelling in fun, apparently in the belief that they were watching a publicity stunt for the Boston showing of "Fourteen Hours," a motion picture based on a death leap from Manhattan's Gotham Hotel. But as time passed, an excited, nervous tension seemed to build up among the craning throng. "Jump!" they yelled. The voices in the street kept on for one hour and 35 minutes. For one hour and 35 minutes people peering from a window of the room nearest the boy fought against the crowd in a kind of insane...
Photographers, barred from the hearing room except for recesses, had a hard time cracking Witness MacArthur's studied immobility of feature. Suddenly one lensman tried an old stunt. "General," he said, "your tie's crooked." As the general looked down, 40 flashbulbs went...
Last week Lieut. Hodgkin, an elderly party (42) as the stunt-flying business goes, pulled on his long underwear, loaded his plane with blankets and took off to conquer Washington's sullen, 14,408-ft. Mount Rainier, fourth highest peak in the continental U.S. A friend in another private plane flew alongside just to keep an eye on him. Hodgkin's tiny plane toiled upward. About 400 ft. from the summit Hodgkin cut the gun, headed downhill into the shrieking updraft and settled in to a neat landing on a shallow slope. "It was easy," he said later...
...next step for Escher was to use such patterns merely as backgrounds for three-dimensional pictures. He learned to show nudes, lizards and hands looming out of the flat surface and blending back into it. The stunt points up one of Escher's chief concerns, the illusory nature of all art. "It is a very superficial picture which man creates for himself," Escher says. "Only in our thoughts do we try to animate the flatness of our images with depth. Suddenly it can become clear to us how silly we are, we maniacs of the flat image, with...
...Dallas, a woman boarding a Pioneer Air Lines DC-3 with her baby was surprised to have the stewardess present the baby with a new pair of shoes. She need not have been surprised: it was just another Pioneer sales promotion stunt. "We'll do anything for a customer," says Pioneer's Founder and Chairman William F. Long. "We'll get him a hotel room, rent him a car, lend him a horse, tend the baby, or run errands...