Word: detroit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Detroit has an art museum of which any of the three larger cities of the U. S. could well be proud. Trying, on a woefully curtailed budget, to do some of the things that are expected of a really first rate metropolitan museum, the Detroit Art Institute last week was holding an impressive exhibition of Persian art. Though borrowed entirely from Manhattan Collector Hagop Kevorkian, it was a show worth the most chauvinistic Detroiter's time. On display were dozens & dozens of luminous blue-green pots, plates, vases, more than 100 jewel-like miniatures, illustrations for books and unbound...
Interesting was the fact that Detroit's exhibition was not assembled by the best known U. S. Persian scholar, Dr. Arthur Upham Pope, but by a member of the Detroit Institute's own staff, swarthy, hook-nosed Dr. Mehmet Aga-Oglu, a Persian scholar of almost equal authority. A Russian-born Turk, Dr. Oglu probably would never have known the difference between the Timurid School (1390-1480) and the followers of Bichiter the Great if his childhood ambition had not been to become a naval officer...
...learned that no Mohammedan could enter the Russia's Imperial Naval Academy. His passionate desire to understand the difference between the Moslem and Christian worlds won him two doctorates, taught him to speak, in addition to his native Turkish, Russian, Persian, German, French, English. Before going to Detroit he had been curator of Oriental art at National museums in Vienna and Istanbul. In 1931 he, like Dr. Pope, went to work on the second great exhibition of Persian art in London...
...fide sports event. The Tribune held its first Golden Gloves tournament in 1928. Newspapers in some 50 other cities copied the idea. That this year's bouts were more one-sided than usual was not due entirely to the fact that Chicago's team included representatives of Detroit, Cleveland, Dayton. After the New York finals, 26 winners selected for the team demanded pay for their services. Determined to keep the Golden Gloves strictly amateur, the Daily News Athletic Association promptly chose substitutes from boxers defeated earlier in the tournament...
...public have taken a lively interest in the Golden Gloves. Light-heavyweight Champion Bob Olin, cousin of a News cameraman, got his start as a Golden Glover in 1928. So did Lightweight Champion Barney Ross, in 1929. Currently, most notable Golden Gloves alumnus is Negro Heavyweight Joe Louis of Detroit who won the Golden Gloves championship last year after knocking out 43 of his 54 amateur opponents. Since turning professional, Heavyweight Louis has had 17 fights, won 13 by knockouts, four by decision without losing a round. Last week, when he thrashed Heavyweight Natie Brown in Detroit...