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...Here comes the star of the show," chortled Cassius Marcellus Clay, 21, and for once he didn't mean himself. With Brother Rudolph Valentino Clay, 20, he was escorting his paternal great-grandmother, Mrs. Betsy Greathouse ("The roots of a great champion," says Cassius), to her 99th birthday party. "It's a shame," he added, turning serious for a change. "I get all this attention for nothing, and she's never had her name in the paper...
...brass, inset with ersatz rubies and emeralds, adorned his handsome head, and big block letters on the back of his scarlet robe proclaimed: THE GREATEST. A Squad of Coldstream Guardsmen snapped to attention and raised their long-stemmed silver trumpets. Then, with the fanfare ringing in his ears, Cassius Marcellus Clay stalked boldly into the camp of the enemy...
...Cassius Marcellus Clay was in Londontown last week, and he had a lean and hungry look. "I am the prettiest fighter you ever did see," he cried. "The prettiest-and the loudest." Five was Cassius' magic number, the round in which he promised to demolish Henry Cooper, 29, a onetime house plasterer who claims the British and Empire Heavyweight championships. But that was two weeks off. In the meantime, there were 55,000 tickets to be sold, and Cor, luv, wot larks...
...hates his movies. "In a film, you are a puppet," he says. "On a stage, you are the boss." Significantly, he was the tribune Marcellus in The Robe, the first CinemaScope spectacle. "It is the bane of my life," he says. "Whenever a fan comes up to me and says, 'I enjoyed you in ..." I wince, and wait. It's almost always The Robe. The picture was rubbish. It was written as if for Peg's Paper*It was tastelessly sentimental, and badly acted by me." How did he like The Rains of Ran-chipur? "Beyond human belief." Bitter Victory...
...Cassius Marcellus Clay the youngest man ever to make the cover of TIME...