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...life may be found too ordinary for his glory: born 23 years ago in Birmingham, he was raised in Willingboro, N.J., and trained in Houston. Where Lewis is a standard of physical strength, Jesse Owens was a symbol of human struggle, against not only poverty and bigotry but tyranny as well. Owens' father was a sharecropper, his grandfather a slave. Carl's father and mother coach track. "Jesse was the greatest thing to me other than life's breath," says Bill Lewis, a fit and handsome man in a cowboy hat, who prizes a photograph of Owens posing with...
...intend to go down South and spend a lot of time talking to some of the traditional men. I've been down to Birmingham, to Houston, to Oklahoma and North Carolina. After we talked to the Southern chairs [regional party leaders] this week, the only argument among them was where I should go first-not whether I should come. People have been really receptive. In my district I was told I was going to have trouble with Italian men. Now they're my biggest supporters...
...left the event with more than theories, more than the effete guilt-ridden, liberalism that followed Birmingham and preceded busing. Guilt comes too cheaply when there is work left to be done--not marches, but the still harder work of integrating truth into a society that has never been good at learning is quickly. And gathered with the determined group of activists seemed to be an almost historic sense of hope and common purpose; it seemed clear that though these people had a fight on their hands, they were determined not to let America return to superstition...
...Birmingham, Mich...
Pursuing his prototypes, the author has gone into the same cage, hanging around ethnic and inner-city bars, courtrooms and squad rooms. These days, however, he is content to stay at a 200-year-old writing table in the large and comfortable study of his Birmingham, Mich., home 15 miles and financial light-years from the Detroit streets he portrays. Even so, the man who made close to $1 million last year from film deals and literary rights has not let success alter his owlish image. Let others compose on word processors; Leonard still writes in longhand and revises...