Word: cassius
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There are reports, too, that Brown will take over as manager of boxing's Heavyweight Champion Cassius Clay. When Clay fought Britain's Henry Cooper last May, Jim was constantly at his side-even during early-morning roadwork sessions...
Paul Sparer's blunt and pragmatic Cassius is fine in the first half of the play, but degenerates into overwrought fustian towards the end. In his quarrel with Brutus before Philippi, his low delivery of "Brutus, bait not not me," with shaking knee, is ten times more powerful than all the torrent of screaming and bellowing he soon gives vent...
...there during the play. There is nothing wrong with stylized settings, but to have players point to these batches of vertical rods and call them a "tent" is carrying license too far. Armstrong has clothed the cast in the standard togas, loincloths, and military tunics. Since Brutus and Cassius are not only brothers-in-law but also foils to each other, Armstrong has taken care always to garb them similarly but in different colors...
...budget for the London crusade is $840,000-or, as Billy put it, "about what Cassius Clay got for less than three minutes in the ring with Sonny Listen." About half the money will be raised by passing the plate and selling books during the crusade, with the rest anted up by British churches and businessmen. One Graham supporter offered the crusade $14,000 on the enigmatic condition that Billy would not stay at the London Hilton; assured that Graham had confirmed reservations at the Kensington Palace, the backer doubled his contribution...
...rounds, while Cooper lunged awkwardly about the outdoor ring, Clay concentrated his attack on Henry's left eyebrow. By the end of the fifth, Cooper's forehead was pink and swollen, and in the sixth it turned bright crimson. Lashing out with a classic one-two combination, Cassius opened up a gash so bloody one awed onlooker insisted that Cooper must be a bar-sinister Alfonso. The referee stopped the fight at 1 min. 38 sec. of the sixth round, and no more than a minute later Champion Clay was already announcing his next fight. "My next opponent...