Word: fame
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...lifetime figures are impressively large: 2,211 hits, 1,555 RBIs, 521 home runs (including 18 grand slams), 6 ft. 4 in. of height--and now.810 on the Hall of Fame ballot. That number represents 346 out of a possible 425 votes and makes Willie McCovey only the 16th player to enter the hall in his rookie year of eligibility. But "Stretch" always started fast. The San Francisco Giant first baseman was a Rookie of the Year in 1959. Second in this year's voting, four votes below the 319 needed, was Billy Williams, hard-hitting outfielder for the Chicago...
...Angeles Ram Fred Dryer of Super Bowl XIV, now an actor on the TV series Hunter, were not interested in re-creating their gridiron days. "I appealed to Dryer's sportsmanship and persuaded Page by telling him to pretend he was being photographed for the Pro Football Hall of Fame," says Golon...
...zone forever. "Tough to handle," drawls Jackie Smith, 45, the great St. Louis tight end, coaxed from retirement by Dallas. "But it mellows." He produces fishing films now in rural Arkansas and misses big cities not at all. No tight ends are in the N.F.L. Hall of Fame, but one ought to be. "Sounds crazy, considering what happened," he says. "But I don't guess I ever enjoyed a season so much. All those years in St. Louis, I never had time to reflect, and looking back after retirement, everything seemed so jammed together." When the Cowboys called, looking...
...narrative frame of Lillian is the day in 1961 when Hellman sat in deathwatch near the bedside of her longtime lover, Novelist Dashiell Hammett. Luce's choice of moment is shrewd. Unlike the sequestered Emily Dickinson, Hellman was one of life's winners, blessed with fame, money, affection and what she seemed to seek most, a measure of power. Her childhood disillusioned her. But whose childhood does not? Her adult life was not marred by more than the normal share of grief. Only the ordeal of Hammett's last illness makes her vulnerable enough for an audience to like, despite...
...unwritten book has already achieved a fame of sorts. Morris' reported $3 million advance is a record for such a project, though it will be spread out over eleven years. And the arrangement giving Morris access to most of the inner workings of the White House and a monthly séance with Reagan is brand...