Word: washerwoman
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White Hope. Clay handled the publicity himself. He touted Chuvalo as "the white hope," nicknamed him "The Washerwoman" for his rough, free-swinging style. Patterson was "The Rabbit"; Cassius went so far as to visit his training camp and present him with a bunch of carrots. The campaign worked like a charm: every one of Madison Square Garden's 18,400 seats was sold three days before the fight, and sidewalk scalpers were getting $10 for standing-room tickets. Closed-circuit TV carried the fight to 51 cities across the U.S. and Canada-with Clay doing the between-rounds...
...Maxime himself plays Saint-Just. Other friends play Danton, Marie Antoinette, Louis XVI ("virtually a nonspeaking role") and the Comte de Mirabeau. The butt of the party is to be Bitos (Donald Pleasence), the local deputy prosecutor, an ex-classmate of Maxime's and the son of a washerwoman. He comes as Robespierre...
...jewelry: either the impossibly expensive or the gaudily cheap. Her own pieces sell for as little as $4, rarely cost more than $120. Torun's clients include Sweden's Princess Margaretha, Ingrid Bergman, Juliette Greco, Oona Chaplin and Duke Ellington. Once, in Biot, an 80-year-old washerwoman stopped Torun in the street and said: "I saw your daughter Pia wearing a lovely necklace. Would you make one like it for my daughter?" Happily, Torun...
...warns its reporters to "write nothing that will spoil the appetite." The Chicago Tribune permits "s.o.b.," but defines it as a "Trumanism." The Los Angeles Times, concluding that all women aren't ladies, ungallantly applies its conclusion: "A salesgirl or a saleswoman is not a saleslady, and a washerwoman is not a washlady, so a scrubwoman cannot be a scrublady." In Detroit, the News withholds the title of "Mr." from all males who are not Protestant clergy, dead, or the President of the United States. "However," cautions the News, "other cases may arise in which a 'tone...
...alma mater. Says Averell Harriman, '13: "My interest in painting was not born at Yale. I was exposed to good art all my life." Harriman acquired Henri Rousseau's Rendezvous dans la Foret from a dealer in Paris in 1935; the dealer had bought it from a washerwoman to whom Rousseau had given the painting in payment for her services. Several alumni have lent a number of works to the show; Industrialist Stephen C. Clark, '03, donated 24 pieces to the exhibit, among them Degas' Self Portrait. Another top contributor is Henry J. (57 Varieties) Heinz...