15/03/2026 04:32

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I shared my berth with an interesting man who had been the coach of the Estonian boxing team in the 1936 Olympics, three years before the Soviet Union absorbed the Baltic states. It certainly was disorganized. Unlike so many people, I have been privileged to spend every day working for things I’ve believed in since I was a little boy hanging around my grandfather’s store. On the way back to Washington, I stopped in Cape Cod to visit Tommy Caplan and Jim Moore, who had also been at Kit’s wedding.

It was the look of a man whose brain synapses were spread too far apart, the connections dulled. We'll know then what we've got. The pressure and criticism were getting to Holtz, especially the charge that he was a racist. I joined him on sax for “Summertime,” the first time we’d played together since 1964.