"This is the story about a man/ With iron fists and a beauItiful tan./ He talks a lot and boasts indeed/ Of a powerful punch and blinding speed." So wrote Muhammad Ali in his autobiographical verse. But when San Francisco Correspondent James Wilde went to see Ali for our cover story, the fighter did not want to elaborate on his career. Ali told Wilde:
"Let me stay a mystery. I just don't want to talk about fights any more."
Wilde began to finger a set of Middle Eastern worry beads that he has carried as a good-luck charm ever since he covered the...
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