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...that he wants to run," American Party Chairman T. Coleman Andrews Jr. told the 1,900 delegates to the party's first national convention in Louisville last week. "But he looked me in the eye and told me he was not physically able." Andrews then read a telegram from George Wallace in which the stricken Alabama Governor reaffirmed that he would not accept the nomination or a draft as the party's presidential candidate...
...vigorously mounted a "draft-Wallace" movement. Some of the zealots even suggested a conspiracy, charging that someone on Wallace's staff had forged the Sherman statement. "Wallace didn't tell me personally he wouldn't run," said one West Virginia delegate. "Anybody could have sent that telegram...
...response to your Essay on the need for complaining: I've been a letter-writing, telegram-sending complainer for quite a few years now, and I agree with you that complaining releases "bile" and occasionally gets results...
Died. Nat ("Mr. Boxing") Fleischer, 84, fight historian and founder of Ring magazine; in Manhattan. The merger of the New York World and the Telegram in 1931 brought about both the end of Fleischer's employment as sports editor of the latter and the start of his full-time devotion to Ring. For half a century the magazine's ratings of contenders, plus Fleischer's encyclopedic Ring Record Book, built Mr. Boxing's reputation as one of the sport's leading authorities and most pugnacious defenders. "There are just as many thieves in boxing...
...first got to know the Herald well in 1969 when it offered me a reporter's job. The offer came like magic--through a telegram in my mailbox--and it was attractive. From the words of the Publisher's Assistant who made the offer, it sounded as if the stodgy, old, provincial Herald was about to make a run for real success...