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...Gladiators were the supreme fighters," says Joe Frazier, trying his mightiest to explain why he and fellow Heavyweight George Foreman were suited up like Roman combatants to hype interest in their June 15 bout. The idea for the gladiator getup came from Fight Promoter Jerry Perenchio, who borrowed two outfits that had been used in MGM's 1959 film Ben Hur. Perenchio's costuming may be entirely apt, but his choice of battleground is far from Rome. Foreman and Frazier will square off at the Coliseum all right-the one in Nassau County...
...Hara's preoccupation with the upper class and its foibles (George Frazier of the Boston Globe commented after O'Hara's death that "he knows about court tennis and custom tailoring and chic clubs...") narrowed his literary scope. Some characters do stand out: Julian English is well drawn, and the recurring figure of Jimmy Malloy, an autobiographical character, is quite believable. But O'Hara the novelist was content to write about a social order that, in the words of the critic Conrad Knickerbocker, "began to flake away...
...tells us of his early sex life, and his flubbing of a chance with a hooker when he was 16 because he didn't know what to do. He dwells on his shyness with women (a shyness which one suspects still exists). There's a riotous conversation with Joe Frazier which Ali taped in Frazier's car prior to their first fight. And then there's the usual Ali irony and understatement. Of Rocky Marciano he says, "Rocky was quiet, peaceful, humble, not cocky or boastful. I can't stand heavyweights who talk too much...
...overwheLming. His handwriting on mail orders for the rifle, as well as for the revolver used to kill Dallas Patrolman J.D. Tippit, is proof that he bought both under an alias (A. Hidell). On the eve of the assassination, he caught a ride with a coworker, Buell Wesley Frazier, to make a rare weeknight visit to his estranged wife in a Dallas suburb; he claimed that he wanted to pick up some curtain rods. Although his rented room in Dallas had all its needed rods, next day he carried a long, thin package in brown paper to work with Frazier...
...next to death," Ali gasped after the fight. "He's the greatest fighter of all time-next to me." Later, Ali said to newsmen: "I'll bet you thought two old warhorses couldn't do much." They could, and Ali earned $4.5 million for his pain; Frazier picked up $2 million in balm...