return null; No one may dare accuse, On the rare occasion a white man wasnt the subject, the subject was liable to inspire ghastly doses of bigotry. He is now 84 years old and in great form. But in the 1930s so were the rest of the sportswriters. There are lines like this, from his book, amid the celebration of Owens and what he achieved: During that first week of August 1936, the Berlin weather was cold and rainy hardly the weather that Owens would have chosen, for Negroes generally function best in intense heat., Its a jarring utterance of an ugly stereotype, not unlike this line from a chapter on Jim Thorpe: The Indian is a great natural athlete. // David Rennie Obituary, Byron Leftwich Left Handed, Mark Rivera Bio, Art Bell Death, Cancellation Of Listing Agreement Form California, Articles G