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Charles Sonny Liston — Part 1

50 pages · May 09, 2026 · Document date: Oct 13, 1961 · Broad topic: General · Topic: Charles Sonny Liston · 47 pages OCR'd
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DATES -QO2RB The-Washington Merry-Go-Round—— rE ES a r ks t xX. aan Yashington notables, withicoming clections.~ Charles (Sonny) “Liston, the Ba of the proceeds going to| The publicity campaign took son of an Arkansas cotton Beeping boys out of trouble.’ two forms: oe picker and now world heavy-¥ as, riston pointed out, his} 4. Full-page ads in Time and weight boxing champ, didn’t/contract gives Floyd Patter-|Life magazines by Blue Cross wait more than son certain rights in callingjand Blue Shield, the medical a few hours be- the time and place of the nextlinsurance agencies which did fore firing back fight. Big Brothers in the Cap- a telegram giv- ital, therefore, has now put|® seat deal to defeat the med. next fight un- |work in establishing the Floyd(newspapers trying to deny der -the* aus- 'Patterson houses tn New York|Carefully documented reports pices of Big Brothers in or- der to help& prevent juve- nile delinquen- HC : .jin this column showing how tory ey just out of reforma doctors had raised money for Actually, Patterson ts not|Key Congressmen who blocked entirely a free agent since he|Medicare, how they had is under obligation to Cham-|helped finance the Saskatche- on pionship Sports. We'll report|Wan doctors’ strike, and how ! “[ would just like to saylon developments when and ifjone doctor in Lexington, Ky., this is the chance I like best {they materialize. had iey ctf medical attention % * - wi . . ed Pes en I be ve , Medical Double Cross The column regarding pay about helping boys that! - one doctors of the USA may |Mouey-raising for Congress- swneed help,” Liston replied. know it. but their “trade |e” "2°, Played ball with the *Nothing can make me hap-|2°t Know jt, but their “trade|doctors’ lobby and regarding wier than to accept this offer. {union” is getting them up tothe 76-year-old woman was - “I only wish it was up to/their ears in politics. Most published July 12, But the doc- me. My return-bout. contract doctors, having spent their tors’ lobby waites until Sept. . erson gives}); . »_ | 18, , i tre ieht toca When tives trying to heal men’siin. distorted and inaccurate will be held and where it will POdies, would be flabbergasted piast at newspapers—just as Se held: I hate to leave it up Bt what the American Medical |the election campaign was &o him. If he is willing, I am ssociatfon ond Kindred agen.|Warming up. grith him all the way. Thefcies are doing eir name. , : pooner this fight takes place} Last week, just as the elec- Belated Denial _ oy e better I will like it, in-jtion campaign began to warm| This is an old political trick, doors or outdoors.”: up, the AMA, Blue Cross and |—to wait until near the elec- ' Liston’s telegram was in re-;Blue Shield began a wide-jtion to confuse the issue; so ‘ply to a proposal I had madejspread publicity and advertis-/the doctors’ lobby {s really as president of Big Brothers|ing campaign on medical care|learning political techniques. in the Capital that the next|for the elderly. It was timed| One denial issued by the match be staged in the new({not because any bill js now|AMA lobby was that’ Dr. National Stadium in Washing-[before Congress (the bill is|Graham Clarkson, medical. ton, in the presence of mem-}dead as a dodo'for this ses-|care director of Sagkatche-, ae ad é wwe, ~~ BvoTiiwe 27 Pearson . Liston Likes ‘Big Brothers’ Idea_ ® Q'By Drew Fogrson ers of Congress and other sion), but because of the forth- . “s Mohr . a» Casper Callahan . : vans Ne ALL INFORMATION CONTAINED 248 — Trotter es Gandy 5 ra “oF NOT RECORDED 48 OCT 10 1962 eee eemepees wees, NG The Washington Post and fi Times Herald The Washington Daily News The Evening Star New York Herald Tribune New York Journal-American New York Mirror New York Daily News New York Post The New York Times The Worker The New Leader The Wall Street Journal ____ The National Observer Date OCT 5S 192
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