Knockout lot for sale; FUNDRAISER: Poem by boxing legend Muhammad Ali to help orphans.Byline: Alison Dayani A POEM penned by boxing legend Muhammad Ali is to go under the hammer in Verb 1. hammer in - teach by drills and repetition beat in, drill in, ram down drill - teach by repetition Birmingham to raise thousands of pounds for a city woman's mission to help disabled abandoned orphans. The verse, written by Ali during a visit to the UK almost 40 years ago, has been treasured by a fan who donated the scrap of paper scrap of paper pre-WWI Belgian neutrality; German disregard precipitated British involvement. [Am. Hist.: Jameson, 450] See : Controversy to retired nurse Erma Lewis. The framed poem will be auctioned at a charity ball on Saturday in aid of Erma's Jamaica Hospital Appeal Fund UK, which she launched 11 years ago from her Birmingham home. The verse by Ali was pushed through the letterbox The effect of displaying a wide screen movie on a standard TV set the way it was originally shot in full panoramic format. On the TV, the image frame spans the full width of the screen, but because of the difference in aspect ratios of the two formats (wide screen movie vs. of Erma's Quinton home by a mystery person who explained what it was but wrote that they wanted no publicity. The short poem reads: "The man who has no imagination stands on the earth. "He has no wings. He cannot fly." The money raised will help disabled youngsters at the Bethlehem Orphanage, run by the Missionaries of the Poor in Kingston, Jamaica. "In Jamaica disability still carries a stigma," said Erma, who will host the ball at the Centennial Centre, Icknield Port Road, Edgbaston. An auction during the dinner, hosted by BBC BBC in full British Broadcasting Corp. Publicly financed broadcasting system in Britain. A private company at its founding in 1922, it was replaced by a public corporation under royal charter in 1927. Radio WM presenter Nikki Tapper, will be run by Biddle and Webb. Other bidding items include an overnight stay for two at Birmingham's five-star Hyatt Hotel. For ticket details call 0121 422 0184 or 07957 738 887 or email erma. lewis@btopenworld.com CAPTION(S): Champ: Muhammad Ali. The Greatest!: Erma Lewis with the framed Ali poem. |
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