Word: thimmesch
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Thimmesch spent so many hours last week before and after the fight with Clay that he no longer had to suspect that some publicity man must be making up Clay's vivid quotes. He ended the week helping out with the cooking in Clay's Louisville bachelor quarters, and enjoying himself on "the kind of assignment you don't have to concentrate on, just endure-just keeping up with...
WHEN Correspondent Nick Thimmesch moved to our New York City bureau after stints in Detroit and Washington, he could reasonably count on spending his time covering Governor Rockefeller, politics, and an occasional concert or art gallery opening...
...practice, Thimmesch has been doing a little bit of everything, from cover research on his old Detroit friend, Architect Minoru Yamasaki, to Labor Leader Bert Powers and the New York newspaper strike. And a lot of his time has been spent detailing the anonymous urban frictions of race and poverty. One day last week, at the urging of Senior Editor George Daniels, he set to work to report on Cassius Marcellus Clay for this week's cover story by Sport Editor Charles Parmiter...
...wasn't exactly unfamiliar territory to Thimmesch. He and Clay got to know each other the night of the Liston-Patterson fight, when they afterward went out on the town together -as much as one can with a 21-year-old fellow who doesn't drink and stays away from foxes (his name for the girls...
Back in his Detroit days, Thimmesch used to spend his spare time judging boxing matches, earned his professional license, and in one close fight between Sugar Ray Robinson and Wilfie Greaves gave the decision to Sugar Ray by one point...