Word: ballyhoo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...past, lively campaigning has been frowned on, because many Councilmen were afraid that elections would degenerate into orgies of pure ballyhoo, featuring everything from strip-teasers to stunts in the Applegate tradition. Vigorous electioneering, however, would appear to be the only method of awakening the latent undergraduate interest in Council activities. Campaigns for the Student Council need no more be extravagant than dull, or non-existent. Voters would probably be more inclined to favor a candidate who runs on his record and takes stands on issues than a man who swallows goldfish or chalks his name on College buildings...
...Place for Butch. Paul Brown is unmoved by the ballyhoo that surrounds All-America stars. Says he: "Stars are often figments of sportswriters' imaginations. I want high-grade, intelligent men. There's no place on my team for big Butch who talks hard and drinks hard. I like a lean and hungry look...
...Unconquered (Paramount) is Cecil Blount DeMille's florid, $5,000,000, Technicolored celebration of Gary Cooper's virility, Paulette Goddard's femininity and the American Frontier Spirit. The movie is getting such stentorian ballyhoo that a lot of cinemagoers are likely to think less of it than it deserves. It is, to be sure, a huge, high-colored chunk of hokum; but the most old-fashioned thing about it is its exuberance, a quality which 66-year-old Director DeMille preserves almost single-handed from the old days when even the people who laughed at movies couldn...
...Slave Law." As the convention began all this wealth, power and ballyhoo was committed to relentless war on the Taft-Hartley...
Rear-Engined Ballyhoo. On the first day of its New York showing, Preston Tucker's rear-engined, carburetor-less (fuel injection) Tucker '48, once called the Torpedo, drew some 15,000 paying spectators (40? for adults, 25? for children) to Manhattan's Museum of Science and Industry. After two weeks on the market, Tucker's $20,000,000 stock issue was about 80% subscribed. Designer Tucker, en route to Italy to negotiate a manufacturing tie-in with Isotta-Fraschini, said production would not get under way until January at the earliest. Nevertheless, fascinated by such features...