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...fiction and autobiography under the title Advertisements for Myself. In any case, windy self-advertisement became more and more popular in the years that followed. Said John Lennon at the peak of the Beatles' popularity: "We're more popular than Jesus Christ now." Said Heavyweight Boxer Muhammad Ali, in a typical flight: "It ain't no accident that I'm the greatest man in the world at this time in history." The same period at last produced an intellectual model for publicly saluting the self: Commentary Editor Norman Podhoretz's autobiographical book Making It. Wrote...
...slug it out in Stallone's new film, Rocky III, due in June 1982. During the fight scenes the pair sparred actively, pulling their punches when they could, but occasionally connecting hard. Mr. T. packs quite a wallop-he is a former bodyguard for such pugilists as Muhammad Ali and Leon Spinks. Still, Stallone, 34, seemed to profit from the roughhouse. He worked out daily, trimmed off 40 Ibs. and added a full robe of muscles...
...saga of how human civilization was reborn in a desert. Set on the waterless planet of Arrakis, or Dune, the book introduced a hero whose ancestry went back to the legendary Greek House of Atreus. Paul Atreides had something for everyone. He was part Odysseus, part Jesus and part Muhammad. His followers were a desert people forced by circumstances into a mystical and practical awareness of their ecosystem...
Louis scored a T.K.O. in one bout he never fought. He told Muhammad Ali on television, "When I was champion, I went on what they called the bum-of-the-month tour." "You mean I'm a bum?" Ali asked. "You woulda been on the tour," Louis deadpanned. Many experts who saw both men in their prime agree that the Bomber would have whupped the Greatest. Even Ali, who remained strangely silent about Louis' death, concurs. As he tearfully told TIME last week, "Joe Louis was my inspiration. I idolized him. He wrote the book on boxing...
...commented at the Gainesville meet. And Ron Young, former Pleasant Hill coach and newly-arrived Nashville Aquatic coach says, "Tracy is a team leader, a super citizen and a super person. She fits right in with everyone on the team and doesn't demand any special attention--besides, the Muhammad Ali mold has no place in our program...