Blood Brothers (49 page)

30
. Stratton,
Floyd Patterson
, 139–140.

31
. Ibid., 141.

32
. Gilbert Rogin, “The Facts About the Big Fight,”
SI
, October 8, 1962, 20–21; A. J. Liebling, “The Morest,” in
A Neutral Corner: Boxing Essays
, eds. Fred Warner and James Barbour (New York: Fireside, 1990), 188.

33
.
NYT
, September 26, 1962; Rogin, “The Facts About the Big Fight,” 20.

34
. Liebling, “The Morest,” 186; Gay Talese, “The Loser,” in
The Silent Season of a Hero: The Sports Writing of Gay Talese
, ed. Michael Rosenwald (New York: Walker & Company, 2010), 159–160.

35
.
NYT
, September 27, 1962, and September 26, 1962; James Baldwin, “The Fight: Patterson vs. Liston,” in
At the Fights: American Writers on Boxing
, eds. George Kimball and John Schulian (New York: Library of America, 2012), 153.

36
. Baldwin, “The Fight,” 153; Mailer, “Ten Thousand Words a Minute,” 117.

37
.
NYT
, September 27, 1962;
LAT
, November 1, 1962.

38
. James J. Doherty, “Fears and Hopes of a Heavyweight Contender,”
BI
, November 1962, 8; Fitzgerald,
The Ageless Warrior
, 191.

39
. Hauser,
Muhammad
Ali, 49.

40
.
NYT
, October 23, 1962.

41
. Ibid.; Gilbert Rogin, “Campaign's End for an Ancient Warrior,”
SI
, November 26, 1962, 20.

42
. Rogin, “Campaign's End for an Ancient Warrior,” 20;
LAT
, November 8, 1962; Ezra,
Muhammad Ali
, 42;
NYT
, November 17, 1962;
BG
, November 17, 1962.

43
. For the Clay-Moore fight, see: Rogin, “Campaign's End for an Ancient Warrior,” 20–21;
NYJA
, November 18, 1962; Hauser,
Muhammad Ali
, 49;
LJC
, November 16, 1962;
LAT
, November 16, 1962;
NYP
, November 16, 1962;
NYT
, November 16, 1962.

44
.
LAT
, November 16, 1962.

45
. Ibid., December 23, 1962.

46
.
PC
, January 12, 1963, January 31, 1963, and February 2, 1963;
CT
, January 18, 1963, and January 25, 1963;
NYT
, January 26, 1963.

47
. Hauser,
Muhammad Ali
, 51.

Chapter 6

1
. Clegg,
An Original Man
, 190; telegram from Elijah Muhammad to Minister Malcolm Shabazz, c/o Raymond Sharrieff, February 26, 1963, Box 3, Folder 8, MXP.

2
. Ibid., 17–18.

3
. Branch,
Pillar of Fire
, 18; FBIMX-8.

4
. FBIMX-8; Branch,
Pillar of Fire
, 19;
AMX
, 325.

5
. FBIMX-8.

6
.
AMX
, 325.

7
. Ibid.

8
.
AMX
, 27.

9
. George Plimpton, “Miami Notebook: Cassius Clay and Malcolm X,”
Harper's Magazine
, June 1964, 58.

10
.
Ed Sullivan Show
, February 2, 1963. “Cassius Clay (Muhammad Ali) talks with Ed Sullivan,” accessed at
YouTube.com
,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUKF_GageY8
.

11
. Torres,
Sting Like a Bee
, 39.

12
.
NYT
, February 5, 1963;
LCJ
, February 5, 1963.

13
.
NYT
, February 5, 1963;
LCJ
, February 5, 1963; A. J. Liebling, “Anti-Poetry Night,”
The New Yorker
, March 30, 1963, 122.

14
. Liebling, “Anti-Poetry Night,” 122.

15
. Frank Deford,
Over Time
, e-book.

16
. Ibid.; Kindred,
Sound and Fury
, 46.

17
. For the Liston-Clay meeting, see:
LCJ
, February 9, 1963, and February 10, 1963.

18
. “The Dream,”
Time
, March 22, 1963, accessed at
http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,896687,00.html
.

19
.
BG
, March 7, 1963.

20
. Scott Sherman, “The Long Good-Bye,”
Vanity Fair
, November 30, 2012, accessed at
http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2012/11/1963-newspaper-strike-bertram-powers
.

21
. “The Dream.”

22
. Sherman, “The Long Good-Bye.”

23
. Sullivan,
The Cassius Clay Story
, 55.

24
. For Clay's visit to the Bitter End, see
NYP
, March 8, 1963;
NYT
, March 8, 1963;
CT
, March 2, 1963; “Prophet's Margin,”
Newsweek
, March 25, 1963, 93.

25
. Clay's poetry recital quoted from
NYP
, March 8, 1963.

26
. Ibid.

27
. Liebling, “Anti-Poetry Night,” 122.

28
. Ibid., 132; Plimpton,
Shadow Box
, 113;
BG
, March 10, 1963.

29
. Sullivan,
The Cassius Clay Story
, 55; “The Dream;”
NYP
, March 13, 1963.

30
.
NYT
, March 13, 1963, and March 14, 1963.

31
. For Clay's first meeting with Drew “Bundini” Brown, see Plimpton,
Shadow Box,
112–113.

32
. Liebling, “Anti-Poetry Night,” 124, 127.

33
. Ibid.;
LCJ
, March 12, 1963.

34
.
NYAN
, March 23, 1963.

35
.
NYAN
, March 23, 1963;
NYP
, March 13, 1963;
BG
, March 12, 1963, and March 13, 1963;
NYT
, March 13, 1963.

36
. Liebling, “Anti-Poetry Night,” 132, 134; “The Dream”; Huston Horn, “A Comeuppance for the Cocksure Cassius,”
SI
, March 25, 1963, accessed at
http://www.si.com/vault/1963/03/25/606262/a-comeuppance-for-the-cocksure-cassius
.

37
. In addition to the film of the contest, for the Clay-Jones fight, see: Liebling, “Anti-Poetry Night,” 36–42; “Prophet's Margin,”
Newsweek
, March 25, 1963, 96;
NYP
, March 14, 1963;
NYT
, March 14, 1963;
BG
, March 14, 1963; “The Night They Filled the Garden,”
BI
, June 1963, 42–45; Horn, “A Comeuppance for the Cocksure Cassius.”

38
. Horn, “A Comeuppance for the Cocksure Cassius.”

39
. Plimpton,
Shadow Box
, 113.

40
.
NYP
, March 14, 1963.

41
. “Prophet's Margin,”
Newsweek
, March 25, 1963, 96;
LCJ
, March 14, 1963;
BG
, March 14, 1963.

42
. “The Dream.”

Chapter 7

1
.
NYAN
, March 16, 1963;
LCJ
, March 24, 1963.

2
. Altschuler,
All Shook Up
, 121–125.

3
. Lewis,
The Shadows of Youth
, 40–41.

4
. William Nack, “Young Cassius Clay,”
SI
, January 12, 1992, 80.

5
. “The Dream,”
Time
, March 22, 1963; Ezra,
Muhammad Ali
, 72; Alex Poinsett, “A Look at Cassius Clay: Biggest Mouth in Boxing,”
Ebony
, March 1963, 36.

6
. Poinsett, “A Look at Cassius Clay: Biggest Mouth in Boxing,” 36 (emphasis ours).

7
. Ibid. For Malcolm's retelling of his hair conking, see
AMX
, 59–61.

8
. Poinsett, “A Look at Cassius Clay, Biggest Mouth in Boxing,” 36.

9
.
PC
, February 2, 1963.

10
. Pete Hamill, “The Man Who Filled the Garden,”
New York Post Magazine
, March 17, 1963, 2.

11
. Ibid.

12
. Ibid.

13
.
PC
, March 30, 1963;
BAA
, April 6, 1963.

14
. Dr. Maurice F. Rabb to Morris M. DeLisser, March 25, 1963, Box III: A35, Folder “Ali, Muhammad, 1963–1964,” National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Administrative Files, 1909–1969, Library of Congress.

15
. Ibid.

16
. Ibid.

17
. Olsen,
Black Is Best
, 136; Poinsett, “A Look at Cassius Clay: Biggest Mouth in Boxing,” 36.

18
.
AMX
, 324.

19
. Branch,
Pillar of Fire
, 18.

20
.
AMX
, 326–327.

21
. Ibid.

22
. Evanzz,
The Messenger
, 262.

23
. Goldman,
The Death and Life
, 112–113.

24
.
NYT
, May 11, 1963, and May 12, 1963.

25
. Gertrude Samuels, “Two Ways: Black Muslim and N.A.A.C.P.,”
NYTM
, May 12, 1963, SM14;
NYT
, May 19, 1963;
CD
, June 1, 1963.

26
.
NYHT
, May 15, 1963; FBIMX-9;
NYT
, May 11, 1963;
NYAN
, May 25, 1963.

27
. Ibid.

28
. Gilbert Rogin and Morton Sharnik, “Can't a Fellow Make a Mistake?,”
SI
, July 17, 1961, 49–50; William Nack, “Oh Unlucky Man,”
SI
, February 14, 1994, 154.

29
. Branch,
Parting the Waters
, 801;
NYAN
, May 18, 1963.

30
.
NYAN
, March 30, 1963, and November 16, 1963; Rampersad,
Jackie Robinson
, 373.

31
.
NYAN
, December 14, 1963.

32
. Ibid.

33
. Goldman,
The Death and Life
, 126n.

34
. Interview with Alex Haley, October 24, 1988, EYES; Alex Haley, “Playboy Interview: Malcolm X,”
Playboy
, May 1963, 53.

35
. Haley, “Playboy Interview: Malcolm X,” 56.

36
.
AMX
, 421; Haley, “Playboy Interview: Malcolm X,” 60.

37
.
AMX
, 421–423.

38
. Marable,
Malcolm X
, 247.

39
. Ibid., 238–239.

40
.
NYT
, June 25, 1963; Transcripts of
The Negro and the American Promise
can be found in Kenneth B. Clark,
The Negro Protest
(Boston: Beacon Press, 1963), 17–26, 35–39.

41
. Profile of James Baldwin drawn from the
New York Post Magazine
's six-part series, January 13–17 and 19, 1964; Clark,
The Negro Protest
, 8, 10, 12.

42
. Baldwin,
The Fire Next Time
, 73.

43
. Ibid., 62–64; Clegg,
An Original Man
, 6–9.

44
. Baldwin,
The Fire Next Time
, 65–78; Clark,
The Negro Protest
, 11.

45
. Baldwin,
The Fire Next Time
, 103.

Chapter 8

1
. For the early meeting between Clay and McHugh, see
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
, May 31, 1998; Roy McHugh, “Cassius Clay—He Talks So Big,”
Sport
, December 1962, 35, 70–72; Roy McHugh, “Can Cassius Clay Win His Big Gamble?,”
Sport
, October 1963, 15–16, 69–71.

2
. Olsen,
Black Is Best
, 152.

3
. Gordon Davidson interview with author; Gordon Davidson interview with Jack Olsen, JOP;
NYP
, March 17, 1963.

4
. William Faversham Jr. interview with Jack Olsen, JOP.

5
.
CT
, April 11, 1963.

6
. Ibid., 12–13;
BG
, May 29, 1963;
NYT
, June 2, 1963.

7
.
LDM
, May 28, 1963; Tanner,
Ali in Britain
, 15–16;
BG
, May 28, 1963.

8
.
NYT
, June 2, 1963.

9
.
NYT
, June 13, 1963.

10
. Ibid.

11
.
LDM
, June 15, 1963, and June 17, 1963;
NYT
, June 14, 1963; Huston Horn, “'E Said 'E Would and 'E Did,”
SI
, July 1, 1963, 43; Tanner,
Ali in Britain
, 22.

12
.
LDM
, June 18, 1963.

13
. Horn, “'E Said 'E Would and 'E Did,” 43. Attendance figures vary between 17,000 and 55,000. Horn's number is probably on the high side, but not by much.

14
.
NYJA
, June 19, 1963;
LDM
, June 19, 1963;
LCJ
, June 19, 1963.

15
.
NYJA
, June 19, 1963.

16
. For the Clay-Cooper match, see Horn, “'E Said'E Would and 'E Did,” 43–45; Tanner,
Ali in Britain
, 25–32;
LDM
, June 19, 1963;
NYT
, June 19, 1963;
LCJ
, June 19, 1963;
LT
, June 19, 1963;
LDTMP
, June 19, 1963; John S. Sharp, “Clay's Prediction—True,”
Ring
, September 1963, 18–19, 44; “Number 19 for Cassius,”
BI
, September 1963, 21–23; “Murder on the BBC,”
Time
, June 28, 1963, n.p.

17
. “Murder on the BBC.”

18
.
LDM
, June 19, 1963; Tanner,
Ali in Britain
, 32.

19
. Horn, “'E Said 'E Would and 'E Did,” 45.

20
. Dundee,
My View from the Corner
, 84–85.

21
.
LDM
, June 19, 1963;
NYJA
, September 19, 1963.