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...dullest heavyweight championship fights in history, Cassius Clay toyed around with slow and aging Zora Folley for seven rounds last night, then knocked him out with a right...
BLACK IS BEST, by Jack Olsen. A formidable biography that disassembles Heavyweight Champion Cassius Clay and then carefully spreads the many pieces on the gym floor...
There is yet another Cassius, hardly more stable but decidedly more appealing. In Rome, when a Soviet reporter jeered that Clay's new fame would not buy him a seat in any Louisville restaurant, Cassius retorted: "At least I ain't fighting alligators and living in a mud hut!" He had a crush on Olympic Sprinter Wilma Rudolph, who didn't respond. In his strait-laced fashion, he married a cocktail waitress and tried to get her to adopt Muslim ways, but it didn't take; he charged in his divorce suit last year that...
That dream, like the elder Clay's vision of Clay Kitchens strewn around the country, stems from the one rocklike purpose to which Cassius set himself long ago: the achievement of total invincibility. Once he explained to a newsman who asked how it was that the Champ had never drifted into juvenile delinquency. "Kids used to throw rocks and stand under the streetlights," he said, "but there wasn't nothing to do in the streets. I tried it a little bit, but wasn't nothing else to do but the boxing." He still feels that...
Harvard's Cassius Clay, Eliot's Steve Crosby, won his third consecutive 185-lb title in the day's most spectacular bout, a first-round knockout of Bill Crowe, also of Eliot...