Word: marcellus
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sing? "I've been singing all my life," was the answer. Will he dance? "No dancing," retorted Muhammad Ali, otherwise known as Cassius Marcellus Clay. Next month the deposed heavyweight champion will make his Broadway debut, starring in the musical version of the Black Power play. Big Time Buck White. What's more, he has some pretty strong notions about what kind of show it will and will not be. As befits a Muslim minister, he insisted on a contract guaranteeing that there will be no unseemly language in the script. And there will be no nudity. There...
...Violence is the worst thing we can think of," Muhammad All, otherwise known as Cassius Marcellus Clay, cautioned delegates to a National Conference of Black Students in Minneapolis. "It's like a bull running into a locomotive: you can admire the bull for his courage, but he'll still end up splattered all over the track." Strange words indeed from a man who used to make his living with his fists-but Ali, undefeated but defrocked heavyweight champion, was not pulling any punches on the race question. On the contrary. "By nature, blacks and whites are enemies...
...deep in debt (he owes $280,000 to his lawyers) and nearing the final round of his losing two-year bout with the U.S. Selective Service System; yet Muhammad Ali, 25, once known as Cassius Marcellus Clay, still has that golden gift of gab. His latest bit of doggerel, recited on college campuses while speaking for the cause of the Black Muslims, recounts the long journey in store for Joe Frazier, current pretender to the heavyweight crown, if ever they should fight...
...ROBE (ABC, 8-10:30 p.m.). A movie adaptation of Lloyd C. Douglas' 1942 novel. Richard Burton plays Marcellus Gallic, the Roman tribune tormented by guilt about the Crucifixion...
...features manuscript letters of Negro and white abolitionists, including a number of Frederick Douglass items recently discovered in the South End and never before exhibited. Among the letter-writers are long-time Massachusetts senators Charles Sumner and Henry Cabot Lodge; Negro leader George T. Downing; and publisher-politician Cassius Marcellus Clay. A letter of President Grant, dated 1872, says in part: "I sympathize most cordially in any effort to secure for all our people, of whatever race, nativity or color, the exercise of those rights to which every citizen should be entitled...