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...week, turned on a wiretap; Boudin won the Coplon appeal because authorities had eavesdropped on lawyer-client conversations.) Filling the gap in his practice, he began to make a name for himself in a series of passport cases: he diligently represented such noted left-wingers as Corliss Lamont, Paul Robeson and Rockwell Kent in proceedings that finally resulted in a 1958 Supreme Court decision ending State Department restrictions on international travel by leftists. All told, Boudin has argued before the Supreme Court 15 or 20 times (the late Justice John Harlan once listed him among the ten ablest lawyers...
...third quarter, after the Harvard offense had been sputtering all day, Yovicsin and the offensive coaches sent all the offensive black players in after a kickoff. Rod Foster was at quarterback. Bill Craven at flanker, Dave Robeson at tightend, and I was at fullback. Immediately we began to drive down the field. Foster was pinpointing passes to Craven and Robeson, running on his own when necessary, and handing off the ball to me in tight yardage situations...
Singer-Actor Paul Robeson-a popular idol in the '20s when he introduced Ol' Man River in Showboat, then a popular villain in the '50s for his espousal of left-wing causes-is becoming respectable again. Now 72 and ailing, he has had a student center named after him by Rutgers University, where he played All-America football and earned a Phi Beta Kappa key as a member of the class...
...educated young writer named Lester Dent. Trained as a telegrapher, Dent was innocent of grammar ("of no value to we") and guilty of heinous cliches ("The warriors were certainly a chagrined lot"), but he could put out the prose at a Remington-wrecking rate. Under the pen name Kenneth Robeson, he knocked off a 60,000-word Doc Savage novel almost every month for nearly 15 years. As stories, most of them are bloody good. He is a funhouse mirror of the America that loved him and apparently still does-a big square joe with the body of Charles Atlas...
...Muhammad Ali is as complete as a man as he is a fighter. Secure and serious in the pursuit of his "purpose in life," his strength, courage and conviction recall to mind Paul Robeson, the hugely talented black singer who parried the assaults that a demi-world of small men thrust at him because of his beliefs. Like Robeson, Ali possesses a majestic grace that allows him to thrive when it is expected he will crumble. Seven years ago when he fulfilled that initial purpose of his life by winning the championship, he said, "I'm free...