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Even in such undistinguished company as George Chuvalo, Brian London and Henry Cooper, Karl Mildenberger hardly seemed a name to be reckoned with. Cassius Clay, for instance, couldn't even remember it. "Who is your next challenger?" somebody asked the heavyweight champion, and Clay replied: "I don't know, but he's the champion of Germany...
...have been sentencing people for 27 years," Judge Irving Ben Cooper told the defendant in Manhattan's Federal Court, "and it has been a long time since I have come upon a case that was so revolting as your case. I think you are so steeped in filth that as I read the report I cringed, and my flesh crept as I read the depth of iniquity to which you have allowed yourself to sink...
What prompted that condemnation from Judge Cooper-together with a five-year prison sentence and a $10,000 fine-was Defendant John Fellebaum's part in a nationwide extortion ring that has turned blackmail of homosexuals into a lucrative, cruelly efficient business. Though the full dimensions of the ring are still not known, 15 members have been arrested over the past year, and eight of them, including Fellebaum, have pleaded guilty. The ring's victims -many of them prominent in entertainment, business, education and Government-have numbered perhaps 1,000, and their total payoff is estimated...
...managed to give flesh and blood to the characters of Robert Louis Stevenson and James Fenimore Cooper without betraying the imaginations of generations of children. Before his death in 1945, Wyeth had turned out nearly 7,000 illustrations, murals and paintings, including 16 editions of Scribner's Illustrated Classics...
...warning, FASTEN YOUR SEATBELT. Cassius' motives for fighting London were 1) a pressing need for money (he must post a $50,000 alimony bond before Aug. 27 or go to jail), and 2) a fine regard for his personal safety. London already had been knocked out by Henry Cooper and Floyd Patterson-both of whom Clay had demolished. At 6 ft. 3 in., Cassius was a full three inches taller than London, and he had an advantage of seven inches in reach...