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...Houston, jury was out only 21 minutes-just three minutes longer than it took the defendant to become world's heavyweight champion in 1964. But this time there was no surprise at the outcome. Muhammad Ali, otherwise known as Cassius Marcellus Clay, 25, was convicted of refusing induction into the U.S. Army. At his request, sentencing was immediate: five years in jail and a $10,000 fine, the maximum penalty...
...past seven years, Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr. has fought 28 of the best-publicized fights in boxing history. Some of his victims were stiffs, but most of them were decidedly more skilled than Clay's critics would admit. Nobody today denies that he is a superb boxer, but Clay himself beclouded that fact long ago in a great golden haze of self-generated mythology about his life outside the ropes-his ridiculous, irreverent verses, his portentous prophecies, his jazzy clothes, his religion, his wife, the draft board that he dodges as agilely as he ducks a left...
What do Archibald Lee Wright, Walker Smith, Rocco Francis Marchegiano, Arnold Raymond Cream, Joseph Louis Barrow and Carmine Tilelli have in common with Cassius Marcellus Clay? They all were boxing champions who preferred to be known by their aliases* rather than by their proper names. The resemblance ends in the general vicinity of the mouth...
...know," sighed Cassius Marcellus Clay, alias Muhammad Ali, daintily sipping a cuppa in London last week, "you can fool all of the people all of the time. Sonny Listen-he was supposed to be too mean for me. Floyd Patterson was too determined. George Chuvalo, why, Ali won't be able to stand up to his punches, they said. Now, it's Henry Cooper's left hook is gonna make history...
...next morning Lucille has contracted the opinion that her unconscious revel makes her Marcellus' wife. Since she desires to remain married to her husband, Justice. Blanchard, she asks Marcellus to kill himself. That way, when Blanchard returns from his trip, she will be pure as before. Marcellus thinks a continued affair would be more in order, but Armand opportunely arrives to challenger him because of his former liaison with Paola Armand declares he will fight for Lucille instead. Marcellus obliges and is killed...