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...hitter forgets the first pitcher he faced in the big leagues, though Rose wonders yet why it was modest Earl Francis for the Pirates that opening day and not Bob Friend. "My first time up, Francis walked me on four pitches. What he didn't realize was I couldn't have swung at any of them." It was the first of 1,506 walks. "Frank Robinson followed with a homer--on the second pitch. Since Cincinnati used to open before anyone else, I scored the first run of the year." It was the first of 2,129 runs. Off Friend...
...this is not the office of Vanity Fair. Perhaps the only place where such a story conference could occur is at Soldier of Fortune, the macho magazine for adventurers (armchair and otherwise). The Colonel is Robert K. Brown, 52, a.k.a. "Uncle Bob," the onetime Green Beret who started the magazine in 1975 and owns it lock, stock and carbine barrel. Soldier of Fortune is a direct reflection of its creator: blunt, individualistic, muscularly anti-Communist. As Brown celebrates Soldier of Fortune's tenth anniversary this month, he makes no apology for the combative style--either his or the magazine...
...brand of journalism. Even though Soldier of Fortune is always certain to draw hoots of disapproval, the Colonel is not the kind to care. Ambling through the office in faded jeans and T shirt, cracking jokes with editors, squirting streams of chewing tobacco into strategically placed spittoons, Bob Brown is happy in his work. "I get to do things that nobody else can," he says. "Vacation for me is attacking a fort in Afghanistan." --By James Kelly. Reported by Richard Woodbury/Denver
CONFESSIONS OF A HOOKER by Bob Hope as told to Dwayne Netland Doubleday; 230 pages; $17.95 Since he first visited an indoor driving range in Manhattan back in the '30s, the standup octogenarian has played on nearly 2,000 golf courses around the world. With an amalgam of Friars roast hostilities and fund-raiser geniality, Bob Hope says thanks for the memories to the pros and putters who have helped the game. Along the fairway he observes the links style of most Presidents since Eisenhower. When Ike met Hope in wartime Algiers, the general's first words were...
...convicted in 1967 of shooting three people in a Paterson, N.J., tavern; by a U.S. district judge, on the ground that the verdict was based on prejudice and prosecutors' errors. The case received national attention in 1976, when the New Jersey Supreme Court threw out the original convictions. Bob Dylan championed Carter's plight in song and, along with Boxer Muhammad Ali, helped raise a $600,000 defense fund. The two men were convicted again in a retrial after which Carter served nine more years in prison...