Newspapers / The Chapel Hill Weekly … / Sept. 15, 1963, edition 1 / Page 2
Part of The Chapel Hill Weekly (Chapel Hill, N.C.) / About this page
This page has errors
The date, title, or page description is wrong
This page has harmful content
This page contains sensitive or offensive material
Page 2 believe in being soft no pam pering. Os course, some people don’t react to" this, they need TLC find all that, but most of them don’t really want it. They get well. “I didn’t have any idea I was going to be a doctor when I came down here. I thought I was going to be a coach. I had geared my whole life toward be ing a coach, and I came down here and played football, and I boxed. But now I’m the only doctor in the country who advo cates continuing professional boxing. In Newark, all the teams come to me, the high school teams. I'm the team doctor. (Every Saturday I sit on the bench not the school doctor, .the team doctor. I’m in ortho • pedics, bone and joint, so it works out real well with athletics. “But I didn’t have any idea ;of that when I was here. That ! was in 1935. This was the craz } iest thing. I played football I was here with Barclay and Ta • tum and all those guys and in the afternoons after prac • tice, at five o’clock I’d go up . to the Tin Can with all my foot > ball clothes on and I’d spar in the Tin Can. All my football j stuff on, pads, everything. The only thing I took off was my cleats. * Then when the football season ended I changed to my ring stuff and worked out. It was crazy. “At that time I had to take all these science courses. Chem ; istry, biology. I hated ’em. I jilp hated ’em. But I took ’em. I don't know why, but well, I took ’em. Maybe it was be cause I didn’t like all those bus iness courses. So in my junior year I took a course in psychol ogy, and I loved it. I couldn’t | get enough of it. That’s what I (liked, human behavior. I took 'every course they had here. ;J went down and had a confer 'ence with Dr. Dashiell, and I (said, Dr. Dashiell I want to be ja clinical psychologist. So he (said all right, but let me tell .'you one thing. If you want to (be somebody in this business, you’ve got to be a psychiatrist, (an M.D. Otherwise you’ll al 'ways have an M.D. over you, (holding you back, restricting you. So I said, okay, I’ll be a doctor. Just like that. ! “Well, 1 had good grades, and ,1 got into the Medical School (here. I was the first guy ever applied for Medical School from ‘the boxing team, soT guess they figured this was really some thing. I was very interested in ,the feebleminded people, but in my third year I was attacked (by a patient. He was just a small guy, but I tell you, it frighten !ed me to death. It changed my thinking. I don’t know why 1 was (scared. I could have taken him easily, but you’re not supposed ito hit a patient. You can grap ple with ’em, but you're not sup posed to hit ’em. I never was a 'very good wrestler. I mean, I could really hit a guy, but I (couldn’t wrestle. Maybe this jwas what was running through tmy mind. Anyway. I could see (that working in prisons and hos pitals with all those insane peo ple, I’d picked the wrong thing, tl’ve seen badly insane people, in solitaries, in straight jackets. When I was in the Army I saw (thousands of mental aberrations, i “So anyway, I finished up here, jgot my B.A. in 1937. went to the tMedical School, graduated in 11939. and then I went to Louis rville because this was only a two year- medical school then, fin ished up there, and then I had jto go into the Army. I spent three and a half years in the Army Oh yes, sure, as a doc tor. Combat. Europe, ETO. Twenty-ninth Division. Saw a lot of combat. Right up front. While ( was in the Army I was pro- Your RUG Cleaning Guarantee—Only at “Chapel Hill’s Only Qualified Rug Cleaner” Dial “0” and ask Operator for Durham WX-2000 r = Personalized Service MONUMENTS MARKERS MAUSOLEUMS DURHAM MARBLE WORKS 1501 Morehead Ave. Durham, N. C. W. E. HALEY, Manager PHONE Day 489-2134 Night 4892088 —A Talk With Dr. Max Novich — (Continued from Page 1) moting fights, dances, athletic spectacles, sports shows, I coached a boxing team in Eu rope after the war, flew around Europe with my team. The com manding officer said, ‘Max, go ahead and do whatever you want.’ It was the morale, you know. So I just walked into ath letic medicine. “I didn’t start practicing un til. 1950. I had to go through in ternship and residency, learn ing a specialty. It took four years. But I went into orthoped ics because it fitted right in with athletics. In 1950 people hadn’t even begun to think of athletic injuries as a specialty. Eisen hower and Kennedy have given an impetus to this concern with the physical fitness of the coun try, so I was in on the ground floor. I hear these cardiologists talking, they have these CPC’s, clinical pathology conferences, and they’re always talking about dead people. Everybody’s always dying. They talk about heart at tacks, end cancers, and I just thought, this isn’t for me. I want to see the results of my work right now. So I went into orth opedics.” It only takes a small prod to launch Dr. Novich on the story of how he almost got thrown out of medical school in Louisville. He laughed quietly and shook his head at the memory. “Cheez, that's the craziest story. Boy. Well, I was the fresh man boxing coach in 1938. The Medical School didn’t like it very much. They thought I ought to be paying attention to my studies. So in 1939 I'm in Medi cal School minding my own bus iness, and one day this fresh man football player came to me and he said, ‘I want you to teach me how to box.’ He was a big guy, six-two, his same was Wal ter Palanske and he was a coal miner from Pennsylvania. Chuck Erickson had spotted him walk ing out of a coal mine with a pick and shovel on his shoulder, he scouted him up there. So I said all right, I haven’t got any thing to do, I’ll work out with you in the afternoons. So we went down to the gym and work ed out. He was a scholarship football player, a fullback, but he hadn’t done very well. He just didn’t measure up. “So then we go into 1939, and I got into the Medical School at Louisville, and I said, 'Walter, it’s been nice, but I’m going to Louisville to. medical school.’ He says t ‘l’m coming with you.' So I says; 'No you’re not, rfhjgo l ing home to see my family, and then I got to go to medical school.’ So I go home to New ark, and about a week, two weeks later, here’s Walter. He says, ‘l’m going to Louisville with you, and I want you to be my manager.’ I say, ‘No, you're not. I’m no manager, you’re un der age. I haven’t got time for that. I got to go to Louisville, and I’m going to be a doctor.’ He says, ‘l’m coming with you.’ “Well, finally I say all right. So I have a cousin who’s a den tist, he's pretty wealthy, so I went to him and I said, look, I got this guy, he's coming with me to Louisville, but we haven’t got any money and I can’t sup port him, but he’s a pretty prom ising fighter. So he says, let me take a look at him. So he comes down and watches Walter work out. aod he says, ‘This kid is really great. But I don’t want to put any money into him until he shows something.’ So I say, well that’s the point, we don’t have any money. He’s got lots of dough, see, he's a bachelor, I figure he'd help out with the money. But he says, ‘I got a friend in Louisville and maybe he can get Walter a job while you’re going to school, he can at least earn his keep. So I say okay, and I go to the beach with my mother and my family, and while I’m at the beach I meet this professor of physiology from Louisville. He offers me a ride down there in too o*tr for three bucks. So I say listen, I got a friend, how about him coming along? So he says fine, for three bucks. So Walter shows up with three bucks and we all ride down to Louisville in this pro fessor’s car. "So we get down there, and I get a room, and Walter gets a room at the Y. And we work out in the Y gym, which was another courtesy somebody ar ranged for us, because of the money. Walter has a job at a lumber yard in Louisville, and he’s getting better. He's begin ning to hit me back now, and when you get hit by a heavy weight, you know it. Walter got so we were going to the profes sional gymnasium in Lxmisville and working out down there. We’re in 1940 now. “Well, Walter says he’s got to have a fighting name. ‘Walter Palanske isn't the right kind of name,’ he says. ‘l'm going to be Jack Brazzo. Jack is my mid dle name, and my grandfather’s name was Brazzo, end I always admired my grandfather, he was a pretty rough guy. So I’m Jack Brazzo from now on.’ “So they got a pretty good fighter there name Sammy An gott, and he has a manager named Charly Jones, and Char ly Jones is like most managers, sneaky, devious, he’ll steal your eyes if you let him. So Charly Jones is always talking to Jack, asking him. “Have you got a contract with this guy, how about coming with me?’ you know. And Walter comes and tells all this to me. I figure I haven’t got any hold on this kid. Charly Jones is looking around because they’re looking for a great white hope for Joe Louis, you know? “Just about that time the newspapers come along, the Louisville Courier-Journal, they come down to the gym and take pictures of Jack end me, and I’m in my suspenders and jack et and shirt and pants, and I’m holding a big hard punching bag, and Walter's there punching it, and the caption under the pic ture is, ‘How Am I Doing, Doc?’ Over the picture it says, are champeens made or born? All of a sudden everybody In the med ical school knows me. Before, I was a non-entity, I was a trans fer student, nobody paid any attention to me. Now every body knows me. “But about a week later I got a letter from Dr. William Mac- Nider at the University here, he was Dean of the Medical School then, and he says. ‘What has happened t oyou? I thought you were going to study medicine. But you're managing a prize fighter.’ I was scared. I figured what had happened was Dr. John Walker Moore, the Dean of the Medical School in Louisville, had written to Dr. MacNider asking about me, because he did Dr. MacNider a favor and took me in after his class was filled, and here I am managing a prizefighter, i figure I'm at least going to be severely criti cized, and maybe even thrown out. I walked into his office and I said Dr. Moore, I have this letter from Dr. MacNider, and it's upset me a good deal, and I think maybe you have some thing to do with it. So he says yes, he did, and he thought I ought to be studying medicine, and he was pretty disappointed you know, he wrote to Dr. MacNider, he said, ’I thought you were sending me something pretty special, but he's managing a prize fighter.’ “I explained to him that I wasn’t a manager, I was just teaching Jack to box, after school, that was all. But then it hit me, the Board of Trustees must have gotten on him, be cause Louisville is a horse rac ing town, and everywhere you have horsei’ pacing you, have gamblers and brooks and' RfOts, and they figured I was connect ed with all these crooks in box ing, and that didn’t do the Medi cal School any good. I didn’t know what was going to happen, I thought they were going to throw me out, maybe, I didn’t know. So I went back and I said, Jack, this is the way it is, I can’t do this any more, may be you better go home. So he said, ‘Okay, send me to the guy who taught you how to fight.’ So I said all right, and I sent. him to this man who taught me. "11131 was the last I heard of him. I forgot all about him. I passed my third year of medical school I was so happy, I knew when I passed that 1 was in, that they wouldn't throw me out. Then I got my M.D. in 1941, and I went through ell the busi ness of going to war, and eve rything else, and in 1952 I’m sit ting in the movies I never even gave Jack a thought in all those twelve years, just blot ted him out of my mind. So I’m sitting in the movies, a movie called ‘Panic in the Streets.' And this guy is real familiar. I say to my wife, ‘I know him from somewhere.’ You know when you sit in a movie when they show the credits you can’t re member anything? So after the movie I run outside and look at the billboard and these he is. Jack Palance. The face, and Jack, he always liked that name, and everything. It has to be him. "So I wrote him a letter at the studio, but he never answer ed. So in 1953, there’s this play in New York, 'Darkness at Noon.’ Claude Rains is in it, and Sidney something well, Claude Rains is the star, and Jack Palance is in it. So I say to my wile, we better go see that. We £o to New York and we’re walking along Fourteenth Street, and there he is. We just met him on the street. So we went and sat in Child’s and talk ed. “I had heard from my old coach that he had farmed Jack out to one of his old filters, and they had gotten him some fights, but he just didn’t work out very well. That was the coach’s version. “Jack told me his side. He said they had gotten him some fights this was in 1940 but they weren’t giving him his purses, so he figured if they were go ing to steal his money this wasn't for him, so he joined up with the Air Force. Well, he was in an air crash and he found him self in California. The Air Force gave him a CDD Certificate of Disability Discharge ruled him right out. So he took ad vantage of the GI Bill of Rights and went to Stanford to study acting. Ode of the things he had to do there was talk on the ra dio, and this guy heard him on the radio, heard his voice, and THE CHAPEL HILL WEEKLY he said, I want to meet the guy who has that voice. So he took one look at Jack and said, you're the guy I want far my movie, ‘Panic in the Streets.’ So that’s how he got his start. “I haven't heard anything from him again. I never suspect ed he was an actor. He was al ways so quiet. He never spoke unless he was spoken to. Never offered anything. When you spoke to him he'd answer you, but he was monosyllabic. So quiet. All the time. He didn’t want to go back to the coal mines, that was one thing he really wanted, not to go back to the coal mines. He must have been loaded with hostility to want to be a fighter. I don’t know how he felt about girls, but when he was at Carolina there were all these gorgeous dames walking around that he couldn't even come close to. Now he has all the girls he needs, I guess. He was married, but he had trouble with his wife. That’s not too unusual for Hollywood. I don't think he has any kind thoughts ebout Carolina. He never mentioned it at all. to the Saturday Evening Post story of his life he gave me credit for having taught him to box, but that was all. I think he feels he failed here, because he thought they were going to take away his scholarship. He was always interested in bang edu cated, kept- on going to school, but he didn’t work out as a fullback at all, and I think he thought they were going to throw him out. The Educational Foundation wasn’t in existence then, and it was pretty much of a hit-or-miss proposition. The Athletic Department buys a guy, you know, they like to try to get something out of him. He might have developed into something, as a football player, you never can tell. I’ve had some criti cism for having stolen one of their prize football players, but he was no good at all then. He was miserable as a fullback. “He’s had five operations oh his nose, to try and fix up what fighting did to it. It hasn’t dole much, I guess. But you know, when you bust these sinuses up here by your nose, it changes your voice. I don't really con sider him a friend. He came to me and didn't offer any kind of recompense, just said, ‘I want you to teach me how to box,’ and never wrote or anything. I figured. I’m not going to chase this. guy. “I advocated professional box ing because I know you can fight and not get hurt. If you know how to take care of yourself, you’ll be all right. 1 never was hurt, I was in a hundred fights, never got hurt. Bill Prouty was here in school with me, he says I’m the lest boxer who knew how to use tbe ropes, which is a dying art. If you’re a defensive fighter you’ll never get hurt. “And if you can box, you can take care of yourself. You can take care of the bullies. There’s a bully on every playground. If you can show him you aren’t taking any of his nonsense, he’ll never bother you in fact he'll become your friend. I’ve found that. If you take him on and show him, he'll turn out to be your friend. “Boxing takes care of hostil-' ity. Every kid is born with hos tility. If he can’t take it out one way, he’ll take it out another maybe on mother, or something. So boxing channelizes the hos tility. I’ve got a gym in my home now, every weekend a lew kids come over to my bouse and I teach ’em bow to box. They range in age from nine to twelve. I’ve got a complete gym, hard bags, mat, wall bars, mirrors, everything. The United States is facing a tremendous bully right now in Russia, and we can’t get soft. If we get soft well, box ing takes the softness out of you. That’s the way I look at it anyway.” —Frosh Arrive— (Continued from Page 1) can find out what their church es offer on the campus,” said William G. Harriss, assistant to the dean of men. Chancellor William B. Aycock will greet freshmen and their parents at the traditional lawn receptiont today at Graham Me morial. His address to all new students will be tomorrow eve ning. Continuing a program that has been successful in the past, freshmen have been required to read Mar* Twain's “Huckleber ry Finn.” Members of Phi Eta Sigma, freshmen and sophomore honorary organization, will con duct discussions on the book. "The discussions help to con vince freshmen that there is more to reading than they ever realized before," commented Harriss. The remainder of the week long program will be crammed with physical examination, li brary touro, debates on fee fra ternity system, testing, honor system lectures end tests. The group of entering students is se large that most activities will be offered to small grocps at dif ferent times through the week. —Town & Gown — (Continued from Page 1) Some of this land may be un derwater if and when a new dam is built. If that should come to pass, perhaps it could be reasonably requested to bring back an ok! name The Trias sic Lake. * • • Tom Shetley seems pleased by the article on how he will make persimmon beer this autumn. Pending the completion of the brew, he brought me a jar of honey to hold me until the persimmon beer is ready. He said his bees are “the meanest in Orange County.” Ton said in a note that he doesn’t frequently get into the news. “The last time my name got into print,” he writes, “was when I inadvertently stepped in to the path of a woman and brought about her capture she was a running kleptomaniac who had a half dozen stolen jews harps stashed in her bra.” * * * Edward A. Wayne, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond, who had a son in the University here several years ago, is originally from South Carolina. He spoke to bankers at a seminar in Chapel Hill spon sored by the American Bank ers Association and officials of the Federal Reserve System. Mr. Wayne told the bankers that although he has lived in Virginia over 20 years, he still is not considered a Virginian. He once lived briefly in North Carolina. “I can’t take out my citizenship papers up there yet,” he said. “ItV a slow process. In Virginia, I’m referred to as a North Carolinian. In North Carolina, they refer to me as a South Carolinian. And in South Carolina they don’t refer to me at all.” * • * The University of. North Caro lina Press is at die top of the list among state university press es in the country for the num-> ber of books in President Ken nedy’s library. The UNC Press is behind Har vard, Yale and a few of the oth er mammoth private universi ties, but has more titles in the JFK collection than any other . institution among tax-supported ; universities. The UNC Press has had three presidents of the American As sociation of University Presses —William Couch; Thomas J. Wilson, now director of Har vard University Press; and Lam bert Davis, now the director of the Press in Chapel Hill. Porter Cowles, assistant director, is the vice president of the Associa tion of University Presses at present. —C Os C Meet— (Continued from Page 1) members. Businesses, organizations, or individuals will become eligible for membership when recom mended to the Chamber's board of directors and elected by the board in accordance with the bylaws. The membership campaign was to have started during the summer, but was postponed be cause of many persons being out of town on vacation. Members of the steering com mittee are Chancellor Aycock; Ira Ward, executive secretary of Orange Savings and Loan As sociation: Ted Danziger, chair man; Doug Powell, an officer of Central Carolina Bank and Trust; T. L. Kemp, president of the Chapel Hill-Carrboro Merchants Association; George Spransy, president of the Carrboro Cham ber of Commerce; Crowell Little, Sior Jennings, Orville Campbell, Merchants Association executive director Joe Augustine, Dr. Dwight Price, and Mayor Sandy McClamroch. All the steering committee members except Chancellor Ay cock and Mr. Kemp are mem bers of the Merchants Associa tion’s Chamber of Commerce Committee, which has been in existence since 1931 and has handled local affairs for which a Chamber of Commerce would be responsible. The inclusion of the Chancellor on the steering committee brings the University into the Chamber, and thus gives University per sonnel an opportunity to serve the community as a whole. They have not had this opportunity before because they are not in a mercantile occupation, and therefore have no connection with the Merchants Association. Permanent members of the Chamber’s Board of Directors, when formed, will be the Chan cellor of the University, the Mayors of Chapel Hill and Carr boro, a County Commissioner from Chapel Hill Township, and the president of the Chapel Hill Jaycees. The Chapel Hill Weekly, iesued every Sunday and Wed nesday, and ia entered aa aec md-eUuM matter February », l*2>, «t ttw poet office at Chap el Hill, North Carolina, pidrikn ed by the Chapel Hm Publish ing Company. Inc., is under the act of March 3,1879. Policeman Resigns For Higher Pay Paul Minor, one of Chapel Hill's two Negro patrolmen, has resigned from the Police De partment effective today. Chief W. D. Blake said Officer Minor resigned not because of pressure arising out of racial integration activities here this summer, but for financial rea sons. He said Officer Minor’s reason for resigning was that he could better himself financially by working as a bulldozer operator, and as part owner of a tavern. Despite the financial aspects of Officer Minor's resignation, Chief Blake said that in any case a policeman could not remain on the force and be in business selling beer and that the po tential conflicts of the two occu pations were too great. Applicants for the vacancy created by Officer Minor’s resig nation have been narrowed down to three. Chief Blake said he would hire a replacement as soon as possible, but that he was not going to hire a man immediately —FBI Agent— (Continued from Page 1) city and will do so again.” In the course of his testimony, Mr. Phelps delivered a speech advocating a “radical new so lution” for the United States. The “solution” would involve “eradi cation of this (Un-American Ac tivities) committee” and the establishment of a “socialist so ciety.” Mr. Salter entered into Mr. Phelps's testimony only to the extent that Mr. Phelps refused to make any statements about Mr. Salter’s activity in the Pro gressive Labor Club. “I may inform on a crook,” said Mr. Phelps, “but I will not inform on the people I think are right ... I cannot discuss the activities of another individual— especially if I agree with them. . . .” Shop Early In The Week For I Tbri “' FoODBUft $ ECONOMY CUT PORE CHOPS Imamu STOWES| lb. 49c FRESH-FROZEN FRYER BREAST ib 491 ' AFTER SCHOOL FOOD FAVORITES ofe) DELTA CANNED SOFT SCDRDIKS Prices Effective Through Wednesday Limit: 12 September 18. 1963. with your 12-Oz. “ * I Quantity Rights ss.ou or more CANS M I Reserved purchase SCHOOL DAY FAVORITE! RED GATE PEANUT BUTTER tff 39c GARNER’S PURE APPLE JELLY -19 c j|§| CABBAGE"”” 4c %jg W\ [OFFEE 79tl C. IHBTMT COfTEE ■. ■■ S 6»| just to ease the inconvenience caused by the vacancy. He want ed just the right men, he said, and to make sure he got him, ap plicants were being given a harder police adaptability test than that taken by State High way Patrol applicants, as well es the Army GED test. The three applicants being consider ed had not been tested yet, he said. Chapel Hill's other Negro po liceman, David Caldwell, has not resigned from the force, and Chief Blake said he knew of no plans Officer Caldwell had to resign. Officer Caldwell is the highest paid patrolmen in Chapel Hill, by reason of his seniority: six years service as a part-time policeman, six years full-time. Officer Caldwell is also part own er of a service station in Carr boro. Chief Blake added that it was a disappointing comment on the state of things that a policeman could make more money driving a bulldozer. Chief Blake said the three white patrolmen hired to aug ment the force after the recent annexation of territory north end east of Chapel Hill were ex cellent men. Two of them have experience as military police men, he said, and all three are currently attending the Durham Police Academy, at no cost to the Town. STAFF WIVES MEETING The House Staff Wives will meet at 7:45 p.m. Tuesday at Villa Tempesta. The program will consist of a talk on the Villa and a tour of the building. ‘Wittdiwod < living is better Sunday, September 15, 1963 Orange Bar Assn. Endorses Murdock The Orange County Bar Asso ciation adopted a resolution Thursday night endorsing William Murdock as successor to L. Richardson Prayer as Judge of the U. S. Middle District Court in Greensboro. Mr. Murdock, formerly Superi or Court solicitor in Durham, is now U. S. Middle District At torney. Mr. Prayer is resigning the federal judgeship to run for the Democratic nomination for Governor. The Bar Association will send copies of the resolution, to Sena tors Sam Ervin and Everett Jor dan, members of the North Caro lina Congressional delegation, and to Attorney General Robert Kennedy. DAR’s Exhibits The public is cordially invited to view patriotic exhibits dis played by Davie Poplar Chapter, Daughters of the American Rev olution, at the University Li brary and at J. B. Robbins Store honoring Constitution Week, Sep tember 17-23. The week beginning Septem ber 17 has been designated by an Act of Congress and by Proc lamation of the President as Constitution Week. The purpose of the observance of this week is to revitalize ap preciation for our Constitution and our Country. University Florist and Gift Shop
The Chapel Hill Weekly (Chapel Hill, N.C.)
Standardized title groups preceding, succeeding, and alternate titles together.
Sept. 15, 1963, edition 1
2
Click "Submit" to request a review of this page. NCDHC staff will check .
0 / 75