Word: ballyhoo
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Bursting with Ballyhoo. Scopes, 66, still considers himself a freethinker, but he admits that he was chosen to test Tennessee's anachronistic antievolution law because he was the only available high school teacher left in the dusty little mining town of Dayton (pop. 1,800) that summer when local Chamber of Commerce types decided to work up a little publicity for themselves. Called away from a tennis game one hot afternoon, Scopes duly reported to "Doc" Robinson's drugstore, where a bunch of ambitious boosters asked him if he had ever taught evolution. "To tell the truth," says...
Died. Arthur William Brown, 85, foremost U.S. magazine illustrator in the 1920s and '30s, who once said of his craft, "We are the ballyhoo guys to bring people into the author's tent," and did so in both books and such magazines as Redbook and The Saturday Evening Post, where his fine-lined, highly realistic drawings embellished the stories of O. Henry, Booth Tarkington, Ring Lardner, F. Scott Fitzgerald; of pneumonia; in Manhattan...
...Leonard Goldberg at ABC was collected. The three executives, directors of programming at their respective networks, were braced for the first Nielsen ratings of the season. There was no reason for concern: their own glazed eyes could tell them that the new shows they had scheduled with great ballyhoo left some thing - entertainment, to be exact - to be desired...
...Bible. Lured by ballyhoo or simple piety into the vast, glittering void of this enterprise-an experience roughly equivalent to being swallowed by a whale-a bored viewer will nonetheless feel twinges of gratitude. After all, it might have been worse. Producer Dino De Laurentiis originally intended to tackle the entire Old Testament, hiring every writer, actor and director in creation for a series of films running Lord knows how long. He has settled for 22 chapters of Genesis, compressed by Director John Huston into three hours of empty illustrations from Scripture...
...proclaimed: "We shall soon, with the help of God, be within sight of the day when poverty will be banished from the nation"? In Louisville and Manhattan, bumper stickers and lapel buttons proclaimed: I'M FIGHTING POVERTY. I WORK. Louisiana Congressman Otto Passman complained that the ballyhoo was damaging the U.S. image abroad, averring solemnly that a family in his district had even received a CARE package from worried relatives in Europe. On Ed Sullivan's Sunday night television show a comic announced: "I joined the war on poverty-I threw a hand grenade at a beggar...