Word: cassius
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Yamasaki, to Labor Leader Bert Powers and the New York newspaper strike. And a lot of his time has been spent detailing the anonymous urban frictions of race and poverty. One day last week, at the urging of Senior Editor George Daniels, he set to work to report on Cassius Marcellus Clay for this week's cover story by Sport Editor Charles Parmiter...
...Greatest." Some people think Cassius Clay talks too much. But Cassius just laughs, and keeps on talking. Sometimes he talks in doggerel...
...Louisville are an old Kentucky family. Not rich, maybe, like the folks who play pool in the Pendennis Club and chew mint leaves on the veranda at Churchill Downs. But the Clays have been there for six generations-ever since their ancestors worked as slaves on the plantation of Cassius Marcellus Clay, who was Lincoln's Minister to Russia. They like the name, and they like Louisville, and they have a red brick house with five rooms, all of them on one floor. It's got wall-to-wall carpeting in every room and a picture painted right...
...Cash Clay did that mural himself. Cassius Marcellus Clay Sr. is a sign painter. Up there where it says KING KARL'S THREE ROOMS OF NEW FURNITURE on Market Street-he did that, just as he painted A. B. HARRIS, M.D., DELIVERIES & FEMALE DISORDERS on Dumesnil Street, Louisville. His son, Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr., has just turned 21 and has far larger ambitions. "I'm gonna drive down Walnut Street in a Caddy on Derby Day." he says, "and all the people will point and say, 'There goes Cassius Clay.' Pretty girls will be there...
...wanting to know them worse than they want to know me-only they don't know it." By Derby Day next year, Cassius figures, he will be the heavyweight boxing champion of the world...