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...challenger arrived in the ring first, hooded in a green silk robe decorated with his customary Irish shamrock proclaiming GERRY, DAD AND MOM. Rappaport wiggled beside him, waving an oversize replica of Holmes' championship belt, except with a clockface drawn over the insignia and the words TICK, TICK written across it. Holmes happens to be 32, Cooney 25. As he had planned for weeks, Cooney bided the time during the referee's instructions by staring at the champion's belly, trying to chill him with the thought of body punches. And Holmes did show considerable respect throughout...
Then there are such historical detritus as F.D.R.'s lap robe; Nazi pilots' socks; a banner from a John L. Sullivan fight; Everett Dirksen's horn-rimmed glasses; a stuffed lion that was the flying partner-when it was alive-of Aviator Roscoe Turner; several white rats, now stuffed, used in a Soviet space shot; leftover Tang from the astronauts; a piece of Plymouth Rock; bricks from China's Great Wall; shards from champagne bottles used to christen battleships; a miniature compass embedded in an acorn from an oak tree that George Washington planted at Mount...
Muhammad Ali's reaction to losing the first "Fight of the Century" to Frazier in 1971 was to stitch PEOPLE'S CHAMPION on his robe and go about maligning Joe in the black community. That hurt Frazier more than any punch. Ali called Joe "Uncle Tom" for visiting the White House, though that was his own first stop after he retrieved the title from George Foreman in 1974. Whether punishing Floyd Patterson or taunting Ernie Terrell, Ali was never so cruel to anyone as he was to Frazier, whom he termed "ignorant." Frazier simply offended him aesthetically...
...wild and drunken noble, the Duke of Orleans, seized a torch and, shouting "Who are they? We'll soon find out!" lit the string of mummers. A young duchess, throwing her robe over the king, extinguished the sovereign, while one flaming courtier bit through the rope and dived "like a flaming comet" throught the window into a cistern in the court. The other four "whirled hither and thither through the horrified mob, struggling with one another, fighting with the flames, cursing, shrieking with pain," as Walsh describes it. Although the flames at last burnt out, none of the four maskers...
...Beverly Hills realtors: "Nebuchadrezzar's bedroom, once ponderously Assyrian, had been Pesianized by successive kings from Kyros on. Kambyses had hung its walls with the trophies of conquered Egypt; Darius the Great had sheathed its columns with gold and malachite: Xerxes had pegged across one side the embroidered robe of Athene, looted from the Parthenon...