Sporting events were a tried and tested form of publicity stunt and circulation booster.

Although the press reported that he was engaged to vaudeville dancer and choreographer Rose Rolanda in 1924, Hopwood's close friend Carl Van Vechten confirmed in later years that it was all a publicity stunt.

In January 1923 the pair announced their engagement ; by July they had separated, leading to speculation that the relationship was a publicity stunt.

While the Switcheroonie was a one-time publicity stunt, for one artist to take over a feature from its originator is an old tradition in newspaper cartooning ( as it is in the comic book industry ).

Barred from Major League Baseball during his prime, Veeck's signing of the aging star in 1948 was viewed by many as another publicity stunt.

The Loch Ness tooth was a publicity stunt to promote a horror novel by Steve Alten titled The Loch.

Just as it had been in Coornhert's time, supporting the Coster legend became a publicity stunt for one of Haarlem's most important businesses, and the Enschedé company complied by offering tours of the printing presses, and even opened the Museum Enschedé in 1904 on the Klokhuisplein ( now the location of a memorial plaque ).

Edward J. Larson, a historian who won the Pulitzer Prize for History for his book Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America's Continuing Debate Over Science and Religion, notes: " Like so many archetypal American events, the trial itself began as a publicity stunt.

The trial also brought publicity to the town of Dayton, Tennessee, and was hatched as a publicity stunt.

The publicity stunt was met with condemnation from both baseball fans and sportswriters.

Henry Morton Stanley, who had been sent in a publicity stunt to find him by the New York Herald newspaper, greeted him with the now famous words " Dr Livingstone, I presume?

The name was made up, as a publicity stunt, by the film producers ; he had to choose from a list of twenty names and picked the one with his mother's initials.

As a publicity stunt, several actors were filmed having their first haircuts / shaves at unusual venues, with the results used in a promotional featurette entitled Bald: The Making of THX 1138.

* April 1 – The small market town of Hay-on-Wye declares independence from the UK, as a publicity stunt.

** A Disco Demolition Night publicity stunt goes awry at Comiskey Park, forcing the Chicago White Sox to forfeit their game against the Detroit Tigers.

It was later revealed as a planned publicity stunt.

Several myths surround the woman, though it seems the first woman in black was actually a publicity stunt cooked up by press agent Russel Birdwell in 1928.

This was done as a publicity stunt to raise awareness of poor Internet speeds experienced by many rural users.

In practice, the All-Palestine government was only a publicity stunt, as it was given no real authority by the Egyptian government.

On October 24, 1901, 63-year-old Michigan school teacher Annie Edson Taylor was the first person to go over the falls in a barrel as a publicity stunt ; she survived, bleeding, but virtually unharmed.

A Chechen rebel leader alerted the media, the bomb was never activated, and the incident amounted to a mere publicity stunt.

The competition worked brilliantly as a publicity stunt, and more than 260 entries were received.

This was later revealed as a hoax, or possibly a publicity stunt for charity.

He publicly burnt tons of low-quality pearls as a publicity stunt to establish a reputation that the Mikimoto company only sold high-quality cultured pearls.

Davidson's league garnered major publicity when the Toronto Northmen, led by John F. Bassett, signed three Miami Dolphins players, fullback Larry Csonka, halfback Jim Kiick, and wide receiver Paul Warfield to what was then the richest three-player deal in sports, an astounding US $ 3. 5 million to start in 1975.

A Southerner married to a New Englander, I have lived for many years in a Connecticut commuting town with a high percentage of artists, writers, publicity men, and business executives of egghead tastes.

Beatty's father was also unhappy about the match, fearing a repeat of the difficulties he had faced with his own relationship with a married woman, but with the added risk of publicity because both Beatty and Ethel were famous and the risk that Beatty's illegitimacy might be exposed.

They were married in Chelsea, London on January 20, 1968 with considerable publicity.

Gregg Allman and Dickey Betts both began solo careers, while Allman married Cher, separated quickly, reconciled, and eventually separated again, all in a storm of publicity ; drug abuse took its toll on the entire band.

Odlum, whom she married in 1936 after his divorce, was an astute financier and savvy marketer who recognized the value of publicity for her business.

Botkin's publicity caught the attention of a distant cousin of Anastasia's, Xenia Leeds, a former Russian princess who had married a wealthy American industrialist.

On June 24, 1878, Bruce married Josephine Beal Wilson ( 1853 – February 15, 1923 ) of Cleveland, Ohio amid great publicity ; the couple traveled to Europe for a four-month honeymoon.

Trueman received additional publicity in June 1990 when his daughter Rebecca married Damon Welch, the son of film star Raquel Welch.

Starting at age 17, Darnell dated her publicity agent Alan Gordon, whom she allegedly married in a double wedding with Lana Turner and Joseph Stephen Crane on July 17, 1942.

In 1940 he worked as publicity photographer for Sun Valley and married ski racer Margaret " Miggs " Jennings.

In the season 3 finale, titled, " For Better or Worse ", they were married during a special two-hour episode, which gained huge notoriety alongside its ratings, and very highly dramatized publicity in popular magazines and on television commercial break specials.

Frank Sinatra had married Mia Farrow in 1966, and it had produced a good enough amount of publicity for Parker to sit up and take notice.

Her manager, Toni Miller ( Lingen ), who is completely unaware of her married state and the husband she is hiding in her hotel suite, has arranged a publicity stunt — an auction to be held at a ball where Edda Vivian is supposed to give a kiss to the highest bidder, with the money to be given to charity.

Five of the members were married at Tokyo's Hie Shrine at the same time during 1985, generating a lot of publicity for the group.

Selma's favorite film actor was reportedly Troy McClure, to whom she was briefly married before discovering it was just a publicity stunt by McClure.

Despite never achieving true film stardom, Moore made headlines with several publicity stunts, notably a five minute kiss on live Chicago television in 1954 and her tongue-in-cheek pledge to one day run for Governor of Louisiana, having been very briefly married in 1944 to Palmer Long, the youngest son of Louisiana kingmaker Huey Long.

Of late, Felicia has allied herself with her brothers, Thorne and Ridge, to eliminate Donna out of Forrester Creations, because of the supposed bad publicity that the company had received since Eric married Donna ( of whom none of them approve of ).

She married Sam Goldwyn publicity agent Louis Lee Arms, in 1918 and bore three children with him.

D ' Arcy married the daughter of Philadelphia film mogul Siegmund Lubin and went to work as the publicity manager for his Lubin Studios.