Word: cincinnatian
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...hometown Cincinnatian too enthusiastic ever to walk to first base, Rose arrived in the major leagues as a flat-topped Reds second baseman whom Mickey Mantle rechristened "Charlie Hustle." Through 24 seasons at five positions, Rose devoured the game with such a primitive pleasure that people said he had skipped his true generation. Usually sliding on his stomach, he inched closer and closer to the dustiest of legends until in 1985 he passed Ty Cobb in total hits and kept on going to a record 4,256 hits and 3,562 games. Then he became the legend...
...baseball team could be said to exist for cable television, this is the one. In 1978 Turner asked Free Agent Pete Rose, native Cincinnatian to native Cincinnatian, if he would consider playing in Atlanta just long enough to help sell cable television, after which Turner would gladly return Rose to Cincinnati where they both knew he belonged. Supposedly because the letters M and h chafed him when he pitched. Messersmith had the name Channel stitched on his back over his number 17. Channel 17, Turner's "superstation...
...native Cincinnatian, Kennedy graduated from Notre Dame in 1955, was soon drafted and sent to Japan. An "entertainment specialist," he directed his Army buddies in such plays as Inherit the Wind and Stalag 17 and after leaving the service, he joined a summer-stock cast of Mr. Roberts. Kennedy next appeared in Chicago as a real-life police reporter with the City News Bureau. "They would have paid me $35 a week," he said, "but I had a college degree...
John J. Strader, a wealthy Cincinnatian, lovingly cradled six boxes of G strings and pasties as he said: "I've bought these to give to old friends, to the lovers of the better things in life." Added his wife: "We like to see a little Americana left. If we don't preserve some of the things that make up our history, we'll end up with a country full of parking lots...
...Cincinnatian McElroy contributed to the preconvention campaign of Cincinnatian Robert A. Taft, but supported Ike in the general election. As a Harvard overseer and an adviser to the University of Cincinnati, McElroy had long been a lay educational leader, and in 1954 President Eisenhower tapped him for a big educational assignment: chairmanship of the White House Conference on Education. Before taking the job McElroy first pondered whether it would "be good for P. & G." Then he bluntly asked Ike: "Are you genuinely interested in this problem, or are you doing this for window dressing?" Ike liked the frankness, assured McElroy...