Word: championing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fabric of the national character is irrevocably altered? In its agony, the country cries out, he feels, for such a book, such a man. Mailer thinks he's got the guts and the talent to pull it off. That he has the personal grace and the devotion of a champion is conceded by all his partisans; whether the bad boy of American letters has grown enough in the last twenty years to win all the marbles is another issue. But Mailer is not the sort who quits when the stakes get high, and in the next few years, he will...
...course for the WBA Clay had only been champion for a few months, since Feb. 6 when he beat the recognized titleholder, Ernie Terrell. The Association had plucked the crown away two years ago because Clay had agreed to a return bout with Liston, a deal which reportedly cost promoters...
Cassius Clay is sincere. There is no doubt about that. He reportedly could have entered a Reserve unit, as pro football and baseball players do, and escaped the Army the respectable way. But he stayed to fight and now he isn't the champion any longer...
...think that a heavily-promoted elimination tournament to choose the new champion will make loads of money for them are mistaken. Clay has clobbered four of the eight and the others are lunchmeat. The public wants a winner, not "some dodo or junior champion," as Clay puts...
Successor has been something of an enigma this year. This son of Bold Ruler, last year's two-year-old champion, and winter-book favorite for the Derby, am-assed $441.000 in winnings...