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...form of forecast that is perhaps most important of all involves the early spotting of comers. When TIME ran Cassius Marcellus Clay on its cover just about a year ago, we did not exactly predict that he would win the heavyweight championship. But in his story, Sportswriter Charles Parmiter seriously raised that possibility, although most people, including many of our readers, dismissed Clay as a loudmouthed clown. As Parmiter points out in this week's story on the Liston-Clay fight (see SPORT), Cassius is still loudmouthed and clownish-but more than that as well...
...there was. In Miami Beach last week, Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr. acted out a scene that was worthy of the Old Bard himself-or maybe P. T. Barnum. Just as he said he would, he took the heavyweight championship of the world away from Charles ("Sonny") Liston thereby proving that the mouth is faster than...
...crow in China wouldn't be enough to satisfy the appetites of the cognoscenti of the boxing world tonight as young Cassius Marcellus Clay demolished the legend of Sonny Liston with a seven-round...
Sonny Liston meets Cassius Marcellus Clay tonight for the Heavyweight Championship of the civilized world, and most experts expect that Sonny will subdue the loudmouthed challenger just like a big pappy bear does when he whups his whining cubs...
...Died. Marcellus Hartley Dodge, 82, longtime (1920-1955) chairman of Remington Arms Co.; in Madison, N.J. Voted the "luckiest" member of the 1903 Columbia graduating class after inheriting his grandfather's $60 million arms fortune, Dodge used $300,000 of it to bail out the floundering New York Times in 1905, two years later, at 26, married Ethel Geraldine Rockefeller, thus adding an estimated $70 million to the family purse, all of which he shrewdly employed in the stock market and in building Remington into one of the nation's biggest small-arms manufacturers. There are no children...