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...anyone within earshot, the tall-talking southwesterner blustered about his stunt (which never actually happened) of getting married under floodlights at the home plate of a Houston ball park, about his registering at three St. Louis hotels at one time so that he could flop when he liked. On sizzling hot days he would build a bonfire in front of the Cardinal dugout, wrap himself in a blanket, do an Indian war dance. One night, out of ennui in a Philadelphia hotel, he and two teammates, dressed in painters' overalls, dragged ladders and paint cans into a crowded...
...most enthusiastic Shavian gave him little chance to repeat, especially in a field that included such highhearted and heavy-footed drivers as young Rex Mays, who earned the favored pole position with his top qualifying speed; Kelly Petillo, only other onetime winner (1935); 44-year-old Cliff Bergere, Hollywood stunt man who finished in the money seven times in twelve starts; Mauri Rose, 1936 national champion; Ted Horn, among the first five for the past four years; and Joel Thorne, daredevil New York millionaire who placed seventh a year...
...musician unionisis had to suppress grins when Local 77, Philadelphia, demanded and held tryouts for a musician to fire a cannon during the Tschalkovsky "Overture 1812" . . . New York scribes are listing Lester Young's solos (Count Basie) as being by "Jack Hoak" . . . Orchids to Red Nichols for the clever stunt of mailing all the record critics in the country five pennies separately with an announcement of more to come and then a nickel painted red with publicity about Red Nichoin and the Five Pennies...
...stunt first performed by white Old-timer Rube Waddell...
More than a year ago the New York Post, as a promotion stunt, sold albums of symphonic records, at $1.93 per set of three or four, to coupon-clipping readers...