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...Bryant, 58, who gave up his own boat six years ago, could afford to beam at this stunt; today's showboat skipper can usually count the house by counting the hoots. For eleven weeks, St. Louis playgoers had gone down to the Goldenrod's mooring by the cobblestoned levee and paid 75? a head to sass the actors in his hokum-logged version of Hamlet. Last week, on his way home from a lecture tour, Bryant tarried in St. Louis for five days to give the classic a fillip: his own appearance in the double role of Polonius...
...invasion was a promotion stunt cooked up to encourage tourist trade and to commemorate the landing in 449 of the Saxon chiefs Henges & Horsa. To greet last week's seafaring Danes (and put them in their place), a British band struck up Britannia, Rule the Waves...
...spectacular discovery with the Government, but "they paid no attention to me." During the war, Dunninger tried to give the Navy a method of making battleships invisible, but again was balked by bureaucratic obtuseness. A Navy spokesman snorted: "Wildly fantastic. We refuse to be party to a cheap publicity stunt...
Largely as a promotion stunt for the new strip, the newspaper ran a voting blank asking SHALL WE SACK THE SHMOOS? Results of the poll last week swept the Shmoos out of Britain and back into the Valley of the Shmoon. For the Shmoo: 3,750. Against the Shmoo: 7,552. Admitted the Pic: "We dropped a brick. We pulled a boner, made a howler, a bloomer." For the benefit of true-blue Shmoo-lovers, the newspaper ran a synopsis of the unpublished part of Capp's Shmoo sequence. It also printed a perplexed farewell: "Critics have called...
...Angeles, he landed a job as city editor on the run-down Herald, which Hearst had just bought to make war on Millionaire E. T. Earl's evening Express. City Editor Campbell printed his Page One on a green newsprint, and circulation climbed. When the Express imitated his stunt, Campbell headlined: E. T. EARL TURNS GREEN WITH ENVY. The Herald's big break came when the Express tagged Campbell's choice for mayor the candidate of "women of the underworld." Campbell sent reporters out to ask the candidate's clubwomen supporters how they liked being called...