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...world a new high in artistic publicity. With the help of smart Manhattan Gallery Director Reeves Lewenthal, he hired nine of the best U. S. painters he could get to go to Hollywood and paint real high-brow pictures of scenes from the movie (TIME, June 10). The stunt cost Producer Wanger $50,000, left him the owner of enough good contemporary U. S. art (twelve canvases) to put him into the running as one of Hollywood's leading collectors...
Doctors have long believed that pregnancy and confinement in adolescent girls may stunt their growth, cripple their pelvic organs, even affect their sanity. Several years ago Dr. Letitia Fairfield of London, a noted surgeon and sister of famed Novelist Rebecca West, set out to see how the facts fitted this belief. She visited London charity hospitals, examined 74 mothers between the ages...
Originally a publicity stunt to boost Hermosa Beach, California's Ironing Board Derby-said to be the world's longest aquaplane race-is sanctioned by the American Power Boat Association
...wrote "Monday I was free to climb over the darned walls and spend a night alone in the Parthenon," a lot of water had gone under the bridge. His Royal Road to Romance was a raving bestseller, and Richard's whole trip was a professional set piece: a stunt following-out of the wanderings of Ulysses...
These episodes and the change of spirit that took place between them may be understood from Halliburton's letters home, of which this volume is a selection. The stunts, it is obvious, became more & more staged, more & more weary, as time went on. Yet the naivete which made it possible for him to invent them was also nearly great enough to exonerate him of their ridiculousness, their frantic commercialism. His last stunt - a voyage across the Pacific in a Chinese junk, which ended somewhere at sea - was of a piece with all the rest...