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REPORTING on the tense training days of Boxers Joe Frazier and Muhammad Ali for this week's cover story required a generous amount of footwork and feinting by Correspondents Robert Anson and Joseph Kane. Both men nearly suffered technical knockouts in the first round...
Correspondent Kane found that Muhammad Ali was also difficult at first. "Appointments for interviews are unheard of. After four exasperating days, I simply followed him down the steps of Miami's Fifth Street Gym and piled into his limousine with him, told him who I was and we started talking." Ali finally talked for eight hours, much of the time while reading articles about himself in boxing magazines. He admitted that he is what he calls "a walnut personality." Says Kane: "By that he means he is hard on the outside, difficult to penetrate and wary of everyone trying...
...material gathered by Anson and Kane went to Associate Editor Ray Kennedy, who wrote the cover story. It was edited by John Elson and researched by Alexandra Mezey, a sportswoman who has postponed her vacation in order to see the fight. Of the team, only Kennedy claimed to be the classic fight fan: "I'm a screamer and a yeller, a foot stomper, a seat pounder. I'll admit to a certain blood lust, a sense of impending disaster. I wait for the big punch that will...
Harvey made the arrangement, effective from January to June of this year, with Janus Films, which distributes 66 movies, including most of the films of Ingmar Bergman and Francois Truffaut, such famous movies as Rules of the Game, Citizen Kane and The Blue Angel, and other, less well-known films. According to Carl King, executive vice-president of Janus, the company has the exclusive distribution rights to about 90 per cent of its films...
...March 1969 letter to Robert B. Watson, former Dean of Students, Harvey complained about a House showing of Citizen Kane. He wrote that films shown at Harvard should not be open to the public, bursar's cards should be required at the door, and series tickets should be sold. Advertising should be restricted to the Harvard community, and films should not be used to raise money for organizations other than the societies themselves, he said...