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Just why the Communists wanted Kazan so badly is not clear. In 1951, his name-originally Vladimir Komarek-had been linked with a spy ring at the trial of Associated Press Newsman William N. Oatis, who later served two years in a Czech prison on a trumped-up espionage charge. The Czechs also claimed that Kazan once had a role in a gaudy murder in which a secret agent, supposedly firing through his raincoat pocket, killed a policeman in Prague. But when Kazan-Komarek came to trial last week before a three-man tribunal in Prague's municipal courthouse...
They're still giving Cassius Muhammad Ali Clay a raw deal. Now that he's proven his boxing ability can embarrass anyone in the ring today, the press has turned to attacking Ali's "inhumanity." We saw the closed-circuit version at the Boston Garden, and it seemed to us that the champ was in a class far above the Chicago monkey by any and every standard...
Kessler, it might be noted, added to the wrestling match impression by duplicating the ineffectualness of the officials who scamper around the Arena Annex ring on Thursday nights. The TV screen showed Terrell pounding the champ below the belt, and there was Kessler on the blind side, running a second too late to a vantage point where he could see the foul...
True, he did issue two warnings in the whole 15 rounds, but they resembled the referee's scolding when the Graham brothers both enter the ring, pick up a fallen opponent, and, each carrying one leg, run him full speed into the turn-buckle...
Presumed Dead. Audrey Bruce Currier, 33, daughter of U.S. Ambassador to Britain David K. E. Bruce and granddaughter of Banker-Industrialist Andrew Mellon, who inherited a major share of the family fortune, wasted none of it on the jet-set scene, prefer- ring to live quietly and, with her husband Stephen Currier, 36, search out philanthropic causes for their Taconic Foundation, which last year distributed $2,400,000; lost with her husband on Jan. 17 when their chartered plane went down somewhere between Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands...