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...belief that TIME is jeopardizing its high standard of respectability by placing Boxer Clay on the cover...
...Springfield. Ohio. Son of a Negro clergyman, Moore was a professional of sorts by the time he was seven, fighting in impromptu preliminaries in Springfield's Memorial Hall and scrambling for coins tossed into the ring. Officially turning pro in 1953, he seemed only a so-so boxer until 1957, when he won 14 straight fights and the featherweight championship...
Some fight-fans think that for once the cocky clay is talking scared. Jones, a beefed-up light heavyweight at 186, is no doubt a fine boxer and a solid puncher. But his only claim to fame is a seventh round KO of Zora Folly last December...
During his protean career, John Huston, 56, has been a boxer, cavalryman, painter, writer and Hollywood director of such classics as The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, The African Queen and Freud. What next? The ever restless Huston will soon move in front of the camera -to play the Boston Irish Cardinal Glennon in Otto Preminger's film, The Cardinal. Snorted a poker-playing crony: "The only problem is getting the robes off him when the movie's finished. He'll be pax vobiscuming all over the joint...
...lacking any special gifts of physique, he had to work at it. Since Virginia refused to subsidize football players, it got trounced regularly on the gridiron. Recalls Law School Dean Frederick Ribble: "The students were humiliated. They felt their manhood was in question. Then along came Morty, the boxer. He started knocking people down and became a hero." Dogged Middleweight Caplin fought for a time with a broken bone in his right hand...