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...HAVE EXCELLENT MANAGER, CALL ME COLLECT TONIGHT, wired Archie Moore. Pete Rademacher, an ex-Olympic champion who was knocked out by Patterson in his pro debut, wanted to manage Clay. So did Patterson's manager, Cus D'Amato. But Cassius was looking for something classier. At first, Sportsman Billy Reynolds seemed to have the inside track. There was only one catch: Reynolds wanted to give Sergeant Martin "a piece of the action." Clay refused. "Martin's amateur," he said. "He can't teach me any more. I need the top-notch people...
...only point-getter for Harvard was senior Steve Khinoy, who placed fourth in the epee contest. Khinoy won an honorable mention as best sportsman of the two-day tourney. Although he enjoys the best record on the Harvard epee team for season play, Khinoy is ineligible for an all-Ivy spot because he fenced foil at the start of the season...
Married. Desi Arnaz, 46, TV ex-tycoon (Desilu Productions Inc.) and ex-husband (Lucille Ball); and Edith Mack Hirsch, 45, wife until earlier last week of Millionaire Sportsman Clement Hirsch, and like Lucy a redhead; both for the second time; in Las Vegas...
...readers, especially when he examines the relationship between hunting and sex among the British upper classes ("Horses lead to divorces") and reconstructs a passionate conversation after a hunt: "Gad, you went well today." "Gad, you're going well now." "Gad. you're a sportsman...
Died. Carl Diem. 80, scholarly German sportsman whose love of the classics led him to revive the ancient Greek tradition of relaying a torch from Mount Olympus to the far-flung sites of the Olympic games, beginning with 1936's XI Olympiad in Berlin, where he also successfully resisted Nazi efforts to bar Jewish athletes; of a stroke; in Cologne...