Word: cassius
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...know the play was good," insisted the star. "Everybody up there on the stage can act and sing and dance better than any critics, so who are they to criticize?" Actually, the critics gave Muhammad Ali, better known as Cassius Clay, good reviews for his Broadway debut in Buck White, but they found the show pretty pallid. It went down for the count after seven performances...
...sing? "I've been singing all my life," was the answer. Will he dance? "No dancing," retorted Muhammad Ali, otherwise known as Cassius Marcellus Clay. Next month the deposed heavyweight champion will make his Broadway debut, starring in the musical version of the Black Power play. Big Time Buck White. What's more, he has some pretty strong notions about what kind of show it will and will not be. As befits a Muslim minister, he insisted on a contract guaranteeing that there will be no unseemly language in the script. And there will be no nudity. There...
...that undefeated Navy was stunningly upset by S.M.U. in 1963 as TIME'S cover on Quarterback Roger Staubach went to press. Yet TIME'S editors plead innocent of any whammy. Overall, the good luck has overwhelmingly outweighed the bad. Golfer Jack Nicklaus and Prizefighter Cassius Clay, for example, were relative unknowns when they were on TIME'S cover; within a year they were at the pinnacle of their sports. Decathlon Ace Bob Mathias, Tennis Star Althea Gibson and Hockey Great Bobby Hull, to name just a few, will testify that no gremlins visited them after TIME covers...
...Roland Kirk, who came just after BS&T, had a surprise in store. Kirk had an impossible job cut out for him, and he knew it. So he pulled a Cassius Clay, a Broadway Joe: he stood there telling you that he was going to "pull you in," that he was going to blow your head. And he filled the spaces in his monologue with music that...
Still undefeated after scoring his 21st knockout in 24 fights, Frazier immediately turned to the ringside seats and, in an obviously hoked-up scene, shouted at Jimmy Ellis: "You're next!" Muhammad Ali, the man who popularized such gate-building theatrics when he was known as Cassius Clay, got in his licks, too. After the fight, the suspended Muslim minister said that until his appeal on a draft-evasion conviction is decided, "I don't want to say I'm formally retired. And they can't have a real champion until I do that or until...