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Clay's handsome face, big mouth, and bad poetry combined with the smart public relations of owner Bill Faversham, Jr. '29, have insured that Cassius will carry home a bulging purse, but Clay's doubtful defense are not likely to keep him standing much past the third round...
...boasted, and to be exact he made it "1 min. 35 sec. in the fifth." Now he was going to keep that pledge. Refusing to throw even a tentative punch, Clay dropped his arms, began dancing aimlessly around the ring. Up to Clay's corner stormed Bill Faversham, head of the eleven-man Louisville syndicate that has staked Clay to his pro career. "Angie," he yelled to Clay's trainer, Angelo Dundee. "Make him stop clowning." Clay would not listen. He was picking the time...
Three days before the Hunsaker fight, Clay signed a contract with a syndicate of eleven white businessmen-ten from Louisville, one from New York, all but four millionaires. That was class, man! Organized and run by William Faversham Jr., 57, sometime actor, son of the matinee idol, now a vice president of Brown-Forman Distillers (Jack Daniel's, Old Forester, Early Times), the syndicate includes Faversham's own boss, W. L. Lyons Brown, and William Cutchins, president of Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corp. (Viceroys, Raleighs). Terms of the deal: a $10,000 bonus, a salary...
...story, of course, concerns Harry Faversham and his heroic victory over both the Fuzzy Wuzzies and the Nile to prove to his comrades and the general's daughter that he is no coward. In the course of his adventures he saves all those who doubted him, General Kitchener and a stockade full of prisoners left over from the last British campaign. At the close of the movie, there is the further promise that he will save a rotting old estate from ruin and emancipate the peasants his battle-crazy ancestors have neglected...
...church . . . We get free spectacles and false teeth and, for lack of hospital beds, may die in a ditch. We have probably the best children and the dullest adults in Europe. We are a Socialist-Monarchy that is really the last monument of liberalism." Speaking in Faversham, Kent, Tory Robert Boothby posed an earthier dilemma. To him, the proposed reduction of food imports seemed "a pretty prospect -an endless vista of free false teeth with nothing to bite...