The Literate at the Fight
Leonard Shecter's New York Post column on the morning of Patterson-Liston I (25 September 1962, Chicago). Mailer is among the writer-witnesses; he predicts Patterson 'will end it with one punch in the sixth.' (Liston KO'd Patterson in the first round.) Mailer's account of the fight, 'Ten Thousand Words a Minute' (63.3), is forthcoming in Esquire February 1963.
“The Literate at the Fight.” Column by Leonard Shecter. New York Post, 25 September 1962, 83. Article.
Quotes Mailer’s prediction on the first Floyd Patterson–Sonny Liston fight on 25 September: Patterson “will end it with one punch in the sixth.” (In the event, Liston knocked Patterson out in the first round at 2:06.) See 62.15–62.17a, 63.3 (Mailer’s own account, Esquire, February 1963).