Ride On The Peace Ship
In 1915, Henry Ford's peace ship, Oscar II, (commonly the Peace Ship) sailed for Europe 'to get the boys out of the trenches by Christmas.' The peace mission was deemed unsuccessful, producing only inconsequential meetings with "quasi-official" representatives from several European governments. Nevertheless, Ford asserted that the Peace Ship's expedition was successful because it stimulated discussions about peace.
I Like It Like That
In 1961, the New York Museum of Modern Art finally hung Henri Matisse's picture, a paper cut from 1953, "Le Bateau" (The Boat), the right side up. Only one person, stockbroker Genevieve Habert, among the 116,000 visitors to the exhibition, "The Last Works of Henri Matisse," noticed that one of the most elegant of Matisse's late career cutouts was hanging upside down for the last forty-seven days.
Many later said they preferred it upside down. Maybe sideways. Perhaps.
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