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...just another Washington fixer. In the unkind daylight, Fixer Monroe swelled into quite a big bug. His "big red house on R Street" became notorious. That was where Monroe entertained industrialists who wanted war contracts and governmental bigwigs who had influence in handing them out. After much headline hullabaloo, the committee finally decided that slick Mr, Monroe was a nonpoisonous...
Meanwhile, in Paris, the swank Normandie Theater on the Champs Elysées was the scene of the biggest cinematic hullabaloo since the opening there of Hollywood's Air Force. The occasion: the first night of Ivan, Part I. Outside, would-be spectators created mob scenes comparable to those in Eisenstein's Ten Days That Shook the World. Inside, however, the audience was sharply divided. Parisian sophisticates, perhaps not yet grown up to Eisenstein's post-sophisticated refurbishing of primordial cinema devices, booed and stomped and hissed at the all but Shakespearean intensity of the great static...
Other steelmakers said they were having a hard time meeting the demands of old customers, let alone those of newcomers. Nevertheless, the K-F hullabaloo worked its usual magic. At week's end Kaiser announced triumphantly that U.S. Steel and Great Lakes Steel (subsidiary of National Steel) had promised enough steel. Now Joe & Henry would not have to depend on aluminum. Nevertheless, they obligingly piled some 460 lbs. atop a piece to show its strength...
...such pessimistic talk was drowned out by the hullabaloo raised by the first public showing of the Kaiser and Frazer automobiles in Manhattan's Hotel Waldorf-Astoria (a simultaneous showing on the West Coast was called off because the two handmade models on display in Manhattan were the only ones the company had). Some 156,000 New Yorkers climbed five flights of stairs and stood in line to look at the shiny green and red models...
...disturbing tendency to lose their form promptly after their appearance on TIME'S cover. They got there because they were champions, or near champions, and because they were just about to compete in some big event. Some won, as they were expected to, and there was very little hullabaloo about it. But those who lost made big news - and helped nourish the legend of the TIME "jinx." Some examples...