Word: fiascoes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Like pease porridge in the pot, the Louis-Conn $100-a-seat fiasco was nine days old. As though his cold porridge had been piping hot, Promoter Mike Jacobs last week dished up another serving: another of his unbeatable Negro champions, Lightweight Bob Montgomery, defending his crown for the first time since 1944. This time Mike priced his ringside seats at a quiet $17. The fans stayed away and missed a real fight...
...YORK-Congressman Donald O'Toole of New York and promoter Mike Jacobs squared off verbally today for a fight that promised to be far more entertaining than last night's Louis-Conn fiasco, the cause of their hostilities...
Everybody else was talking about the United Nations' new home in the U.S. (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), so why not architects? Last week gallerygoers at Manhattan's up-to-the-minute Museum of Modern Art were confronted with outsize placards: MUST WE REPEAT THE GENEVA FIASCO? On the wall were architectural drawings that had been entered in the international competition in 1927 for a Geneva palace for the old League of Nations. Above them was an ominous legend: "The Competition Failed. The Building Failed. The League Failed...
Other great powers have always maintained espionage systems along with their armies and navies. The U.S., with a mixture of trust and indifference, never has-outside of cracking codes and listening to teacup gossip at foreign embassies. That historical innocence, which ended in the fiasco of Pearl Harbor, is now gone...
Except for a few artist friends, no one thought much of his work. The one exhibition of his paintings was a fiasco. But when he finally died at 36, in the Hópital de la Charité, 25 years ago this week, Paris flocked to his funeral. An endless cortege of artists and models followed the hearse to the cemetery. Along the way gendarmes, who had arrested him with painful regularity, saluted the flower-decked coffin...