Word: clays
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Thimmesch spent so many hours last week before and after the fight with Clay that he no longer had to suspect that some publicity man must be making up Clay's vivid quotes. He ended the week helping out with the cooking in Clay's Louisville bachelor quarters, and enjoying himself on "the kind of assignment you don't have to concentrate on, just endure-just keeping up with...
...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...
...wasn't exactly unfamiliar territory to Thimmesch. He and Clay got to know each other the night of the Liston-Patterson fight, when they afterward went out on the town together -as much as one can with a 21-year-old fellow who doesn't drink and stays away from foxes (his name for the girls...
This week, as the Times would have informed us, spring begins. Now sports fans should put down the Viking Portable Cassias Clay (ed. by Lionel Trilling), and begin to follow spring training...
...bunch of the beards were whooping it up at a Greenwich Village Java saloon called The Bitter End and one of the poems recited was Ode to a Champion: Cassius Marcellus Clay. Its author? Who else but Prosodic Pugilist Cassius Marcellus Clay, 20, getting ready for his Madison Square Garden skirmish this week with Heavyweight Doug Jones. Quoth Cassius: "The word's been passed around that I'm a very charming guy./ the greatest fighter that ever lived,/ and I'll gladly tell you why . . ." Of course if he turned out to be wrong, Cassius could just...