Word: fiascos
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TIME'S Nov. 12 piece on the Winchell-Baker-Stork-Club fiasco rates three loud cheers. Your treatment of racial-prejudice incidents has always been excellent. Also nice blow for the misused word "discrimination." It used to be a handy one. And may Sugar Ray Robinson's "Daddy-O, ungather my dry goods, or I'll have to let you have it," be remembered favorably with Joe Jacobs' candid "I shoulda stood...
Meanwhile, across the Common in Fay House, cooler heads realized the growing momentum of a potential fiasco. Should the student council slap a ceiling on campaign expenditure? What about the girl who didn't know you were allowed to campaign? What about the girl who didn't get an idea in time? And what about the girl who didn't get an idea...
...sneering bookie was a little man named Harry Gross. The trail that led him to this courtroom fiasco went back ten years to a spot on Brooklyn's Church Avenue. Gross, then a rookie bookie, was furtively taking a bet off a customer when a plainclothes policeman came up. "You're a sucker for cheating this way," said the cop. Cheating, Gross found, meant breaking the law without paying off the cops. He stopped cheating, and by 1950 was the "Mr. G." of Brooklyn gambling, operating 35 places with 400 employees, handling $20 million a year, handing...
...Mohammed Mossadeq-who has been running the show from his cot, summoning Western diplomats, cowing the Iranian Parliament with his National Front thugs, telling the Shah where he got off-has begun to slip. Fourteen deputies last week signed a manifesto protesting the Premier's policies, deriding the fiasco of oil nationalization. Sayid Zia Eddin Tabatabai, onetime Premier and wily old politician, set up an opposition, revived his National Will Party. The Shah, who has been mum about his dislike of Mossadeq and his policies, last week made a public plea for national unity in which he said flatly...
After his Mexican "vacation" fiasco with Cinemactress Ava Gardner, Crooner Frank Sinatra turned up in Reno, called reporters in to make his peace with the press and hand out a bit of news: he will sing in Nevada nightclubs for six weeks, then start his own divorce proceedings against wife Nancy. But somehow everyone was beginning to find the whole affair a little wearisome. Yawned the New York Daily News in a one-sentence editorial: "Anybody know of a bigger bore just now than Frank Sinatra...