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...Bryant's bosses saw his stunt. Caught, Bryant apologized, poured back the fluid, worth only about half a cent. Nevertheless, his employers gave him his week's pay (about $20) and fired...
After that came elephant-hunting for the films, and one job for the camera that not even the author can understate. The stunt: to shoot a lion as he leaped at the hunter from ten yards or less...
...Detroiters witnessed what they thought was the first religious skywriting since the invention of the airplane:* a plane which inscribed an eleven-mile-long JESUS SAVES in white smoke. The stunt was the brain child of the Rev. Bert Turner, 36, an itinerant evangelist. The skywriting company reduced its usual rate to $10 a word, threw in a free cross between the two words and a couple more at the end, "if the pilot had any smoke left...
Winter Week. In the middle of the hot weather slump, when 52nd Street nightclub owners looked glumly at rows of empty tables and cried the blues, Nick's joint on West Tenth Street was having what the surprised musicians themselves called a "winter week." The iron-man stunt was giving Bobby (who, like all hot jazzmen, is an authority on hard times) some memorable paydays. ABC pays him $165 a week for a 40-hour week for 20 hours of actual playing. Grace Rongetti, Nick's widow, pays better than that, complaining only when Bobby gets tied...
Died. Ildebrando ("Papa") Zacchini, 80, Italian-born circus impresario who introduced the human cannon ball act in 1922; in Tampa, Fla. Patriarch of two generations of the often injured but never killed "Flying Zacchinis" (the stunt has led 32 non-Zacchinis to their deaths), Ildebrando lost a leg seven years ago, after he had already retired to devote himself to painting...