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...pitching prospect. A southpaw, he stands 6 ft. 2 in. tall, weighs 205 Ibs., and throws a fast ball that "takes off." For four years Paul Pettit has completely befuddled schoolboy batters, once struck out 27 in a 12-inning game. In 1948, he performed the authentic Frank Merriwell stunt of pitching six no-hit, no-run games, . three of them in succession...
...performing his stunt again last week, Migon convinced even Warden Chester Fordney, who had been sure the Herald-American's picture was a retoucher's phony. The Hearst paper explained that taking the picture had not been merely a ghoulish, sensational trick. It had actually, it said piously, been an act of purest public service. Migon's exploit, cried the Herald-American, proved that the jail's detection system "is NOT fool proof." If "guns and saws COULD BE SMUGGLED" into jail the same way, there might be "A WHOLESALE BREAK BY PRISONERS...
This year the girl is Miss Sharman Douglas, daughter of the U.S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James; last year when the stunt was inaugurated, Miss Margaret Truman was named...
Proud of its color pictures, CBS has made every effort to show them to the public. A shrewd move was to make special cameras for televising surgical operations for Smith, Kline & French Laboratories, drug manufacturers. As a dignified publicity stunt, the drug house has shown surgical operations in color for the benefit of some 50,000 doctors in medical gatherings all over the country. Since black & white television gives little idea of a surgical operation, the CBS system has given many doctors their first glimpse of ultramodern techniques. Many of the grateful doctors are loud rooters for CBS color...
...added that the night clerk promised to tell police about the call. As of last night, the Cambridge blotter had no record of the incident, but it was impossible to determine whether the night clerk had failed to call or whether the whole thing was a publicity stunt...