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Sunday, 10 September
Francis Sleeper, 79
Professions: Maine correspondent for Time, Life, Sports Illustrated and Fortune magazines from 1958-2005, famously covering the May, 1965 heavyweight title fight between Muhammad Ali and Sonny Liston and interviewing Ali while they jogged along the Maine turnpike together; reporter for the Portland Press Herald, the Portland Evening Express and what was then the Portland Sunday Telegram, remaining a reporter to the newspaper, and its affiliates, for almost four decades and becoming the newspaper's Business Editor in 1961.
Degrees: A.B. from Harvard, 1949; M.A. in international relations from American University in 1950, and Princeton University in 1952; awarded a Fulbright fellowship, which he pursued in Egypt, 1952-53.
Death: September 8, 2006, at his home in Portland, Maine, from prostate cancer. From the Portland Press Herald/Maine Sunday Telegram.
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