Word: cassius
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...course there is Cassius Clay. The present tense still applies to cassius, but only because his proposed October might with Sonny has been postponed--until February of next year at the earliest. Sonny, the former sharecropper, is now a millionaire, and Mortimer Caplin has made it unprofitable for millionaires to fistfight three times a year...
...Beta and has him refuse to part a man's hair from ear to ear lest people whisper into the fellow's nose. And in an inspired version of the death of Caesar, he has Caesar standing in the Forum hearing senatorial complaints. One comes from Cassius, who thinks there should be a month named after him. That would be ludicrous, retorts Caesar, whetting Cassius' blade. "Thirty days hath September, April, Cassius, and November." Hah, hah. Googgh...
...whole idea, Cassius insisted, was "to make Liston mad." One night Sonny slapped Clay's face when Cassius taunted him in a casino on the Strip. Just before the fight, Cassius bounced into the ring, solemnly shook Patterson's hand, started for Liston's corner-then threw up his hands in mock terror and dived for the seats. The crowd almost busted laughing. No sooner was Patterson counted out than Clay was back, shaking off cops, grabbing a microphone, proclaiming "That was a disgrace. They should apologize for wasting my time on that farce." At Liston...
...Maybe the Movies." By week's end, the haggling over a Clay-Liston fight this fall was in full swing. Leaving his managers to work out the details, Cassius flew to New York to cut an album for Columbia Records and ponder the future. "Maybe after Liston...
Clay promised to knock out Liston in eight rounds. On paper, his boast might seem almost reasonable. Liston is somewhat heavier (215 lbs. v. 205 lbs.) and has a longer reach (7 in.), but Cassius is taller (6 ft. 3 in. v. 6 ft. 1 in.), faster, and has a big advantage in age (eight years). Yet few experts see it Clay's way. "Nobody's gonna beat Liston 'cept old age," said Joe Louis. "Clay doesn't know how to fight," agreed a ringwise trainer. "Liston will break him in half...