Word: 1900s
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. Jess Willard, 86, ex-heavyweight champ and boxing's "Great White Hope" in the early 1900s (see SPORT...
...GREAT WHITE HOPE, by Howard Sackler, attempts to re-create the prizefight world of the 1900s, using the dramaturgy of the 1930s, and drawing dubious parallels with events of the 1960s. James Earl Jones exudes vitality as the first Negro heavyweight champion...
...GREAT WHITE HOPE, by Howard Sackler, attempts to re-create the fight world that existed in the 1900s, using the dramaturgy of the 1930s and drawing dubious parallels with events of the 1960s. James Earl Jones exudes vitality and ego energy as the first Negro heavyweight champion...
Died. Marcel Duchamp, 81, France's Grand Dada of art, whose iconoclastic paintings, "readymades" and other assemblages of the early 1900s became cryptic formulas for the future; in Neuilly, France. "An explosion in a shingle factory!" hooted a critic, and guards had to restrain angry art lovers when Duchamp's disjointed Nude Descending a Staircase went on view at Manhattan's 1913 Armory Show. The gaunt, enigmatic Frenchman proceeded to thumb his nose all the more vigorously at the pantheon of art. He painted a mustache and goatee on a Mona Lisa reproduction, put his own portrait...
...than the "inventors, hobbyists and amateurs" in the business. They have. Among the seven outfits picked up by Leisure (1967 sales: $10 million) is Philadelphia's S. L. Allen & Co., whose famed Flexible Flyer sled, introduced in 1889, could claim nearly 100% of the market in the early 1900s. Leisure bought Allen, which had been on the skids for years, for a $1,760,000 pittance, then broadened Allen's product line and rebuilt its shaky "sales staff," which consisted of four part-timers. Allen now enjoys a 6% profit on sales...