Letters, Mar. 29, 1971

Venom for Profit

Sir: Some fighter this Muhammad Ali [March 8]. He should use his venom to protect his poor black buddies sweating it out in Viet Nam.

If he abhors violence, why is he making a very profitable living by using his hands against a fellow black?

(MRS.) EDYTHE CUMMINS

Pensacola, Fla.

Sir: It seems to me an insult to all of the young American men who have bravely and not always willingly fought in our armed forces to have Cassius Clay's picture on the cover of TIME. As the mother of two draft-age young...

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