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...Humphrey-Kennedy ticket would have a certain irony. Humphrey Biographer Winthrop Griffith recalls a scene at the Los Angeles convention when John Kennedy was on the brink of victory. Bobby, a finger thrust at Hubert's chest, demanded the immediate delivery of Minnesota's delegates, "or else." Humphrey poked back and said: "Bobby, go to hell...
...many simply got lost in the shuffle. A surprisingly large number of famous first films are missing in America: Sternberg's The Salvation Hunters, De Mille's The Squaw Man, Ford's first feature Straight Shooting and many of Griffith's earliest films, to name...
...stories plague the careers of our greatest film-makers, including King Vidor, Howard Hawks, John Ford, Ernst Lubitsch, and Frank Borzage, as well as stars like Gloria Swanson, Rudolf Valentino, Douglas Fairbanks, Lon Chaney Sr., and even W. C. Fields, one of whose two films directed by D. W. Griffith is lost...
...into the $100 ringside seats, and a total of 18,096 fans paid $658,503, the biggest indoor gate in history, to see the kind of fight card that is all too rare: a doubleheader that matched 1) Italy's slick-boxing Nino Benvenuti, 29, against Slugger Emile Griffith, 30, for the world middleweight title, and 2) Philadelphia's Joe Frazier, 24, unbeaten in 19 pro fights, against Michigan's Buster Mathis, 23, winner of 23 in a row, for the heavyweight championship of New York, Maine, Massachusetts and Illinois...
...also had a show for the case. The Benvenuti-Griffith confrontation was their third in less than a year. In the first, the unheralded Italian challenger astonished experts by easily outpointing Griffith for the title; in the second, last August, Emile won back the crown with his swarming attack. Now, once again, science and strategy proved superior to strength. Nino's flicking jab kept Emile out of hooking range; a short right followed by a lightning left cross dropped Griffith for a count of six in the ninth round; and the judges' vote was unanimous for Benvenuti...