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...Marcel Cerdan Jr. was no higher than a ring post when his father became the middleweight champion of the world. Marcel Sr. died shortly thereafter but for the son the legacy lives on: "It is my duty to try to succeed my father." He is certain of this, he says, for on the eve of a fight his father often visits him in his dreams, urging him on. "It is in the stars," says his manager, Philippe Filippi. "Old Marcel is up there watching me, and I know he's happy about what I am doing...
...memory of Marcel Cerdan Sr. is no less vivid to millions of Frenchmen. A veteran of the Free French navy, the handsome brawler fought his way out of Casablanca to become "l'Immortel." In September 1948, he knocked out Tony Zale in the twelfth round to win the middleweight title. He lost the crown to Jake LaMotta nine months later when he tore a left shoulder muscle in the first round, then gamely fought on virtually one-handed until he was unable to answer the bell for the tenth round. Scheduled for a rematch with LaMotta, the superstitious Cerdan...
...back in 191 3, an unwary art critic covered himself with retrospective ignominy by mocking Dadaist Marcel Duchamp's cubistic Nude Descending a Staircase as looking more like "an explosion in a shingle factory." There is no such danger today awaiting critics of Minimal Sculptor Robert Morris -even though some of his work does indeed look like an explosion in some sort of factory-because Morris' untitled pieces are not intended to represent anything. "What you see is what there is," says Morris. Since 1962, Morris watchers have seen him exhibit an 8-ft.-square slab of painted...
...understand what the fuss is about," insisted Marcel Witner, Mercury's international manager. "We did not say Pompidou owned the boat." Besides, he said, in what sounded like an afterthought, "it is not an unflattering picture." More important for Mercury, there was all that free publicity resulting from the fuss. Nor was the publicity lost on other advertisers. For example, officials of the Lacoste apparel-and-toiletries firm surely noticed that their trademark, a curve-tailed crocodile, was sewn onto Pompidou's sports shirt. Lacoste, at least, is French...
...saleswoman. Born in Montreal, Geneviève went through the familiar Catholic training. "For twelve years I was in a convent school," she recalls. "Everything was very comme il faut, very strict, but I remained myself." Then she was caught by one of the sisters reading a proscribed volume, Marcel Pagnol's Fanny. On the school's insistence, Geneviève made her first big exit. Soon afterward she enrolled in the Province of Quebec Conservatory of Drama...