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JACK YOUNGERMAN - Parsons, 24 West 57th. Born in Cassius Clay's hometown, he shares some of the Louisville slugger's expansiveness. His enormous abstractions become arenas where mammoth forms-within-forms wage war with raw colors for attention and space. Through April...
...Georgia's filibustering Democratic Senator Richard Russell rose to take up the cause of Muhammad Ali, more commonly known as Cassius Clay. Scarcely troubling to conceal the twinkle in his eye, Russell inveighed against a World Boxing Association move to vacate Clay's world heavyweight championship title, cited it as a prime example of the intolerance that had inspired the civil rights bill...
...spout was on. "Don't call me Cassius Clay. I am Muhammad Ali, the heavyweight champion of the whole world." But for once, whatever-his-name-is conceded his limitations. "The Army's the boss," he said sagely after hearing that careful double-checking had confirmed he was not intelligent enough to be drafted. Still, now that there was no prospect of his becoming Private Ali, canny Cassius must have been secretly crowing: "I am the dumbest...
...Lassman can subscribe to any of these views, but he has no right to ban Cassius Marcellus Clay, or Cassius "Muhammed Ali" Clay from boxing for expounding the glory of Islam...
...about to make of boxing. Cus D'Amato tried for years to avoid a Liston-Patterson fight, but so long as Liston was kept twiddling his thumbs at the top of the contenders' ladder, a few of us were willing to accept Floyd as the best heavyweight around. With Cassius Clay exiled from the boxing world no one will recognize Doug Jones or Ernie Terrell as a legitimate champion. Much as Lassman might wish that only nice Baptist boys from healthy middle class homes would take up boxing, that just is not the case. It just is not boxing