Word: homeness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Rocky Upstairs? So far. success has not spoiled Rocky Colavito. Painstakingly polite, he will sign autographs for kids by the hour, admonishing the unruly to say thank you. During the season, he lives quietly in a furnished home on Cleveland's west side with his pretty, dark-haired wife Carmen, 23. and their two children, Rocco, 3, and Marisa, 15 months. In the winter they move back to their home in Temple, Pa., where Rocky met Carmen in 1953 while playing with nearby Reading. There they keep a jewelry box full of religious medals that fans have sent...
This year Rocky tied a major-league record by hitting four consecutive home runs in a single game, and, what was more impressive, did it in the toughest stadium in the league-Baltimore's massive Memorial Stadium. Even so. Rocky is far from being a polished ballplayer. His powerful throwing arm-he has one measured throw of 436 ft.-can be wildly inaccurate. At the plate Rocky will murder a baseball between his belt and knees, but still has trouble solving fast balls tight and high and sliders that break away, still tries to kill the ball instead...
...Strike-out or home run, Rocky Colavito earns his $30,000 by playing with a flair that stirs delight up in the stands. After one of his flat-trajectory throws from rightfield, the "ooh!" lingers for drawn-out seconds. And when Rocky hits the long one and starts his languorous lope around the bases ("Rocky runs around after hitting a homer like he was still tasting it," says a sportscaster), the cheers follow him into the dugout...
...thereby lining the jacket of General Manager Lane, who gets a bonus of 5?a head for every customer the Indians draw at home over 800,000. Through week's end, the Indians had played to 1,009,362, giving Lane $10,478.10 in nickels in addition to his salary of some...
Newspaper Publisher Charles Phelps Taft (half brother of the President) and his wife built their collection to fit the museum when it was still their own home, a gem of early Federal architecture on Cincinnati's Lytle Park. In 1927 they presented it intact to Cincinnati. The quiet spacious rooms are adorned but not crowded with Duncan Phyfe furniture, 200 Chinese porcelains, a top-rank selection of French Renaissance enamels, and more than 100 canvases, from Hieronymus Bosch to John Singer Sargent, all of extraordinary quality. In fact, Hals's Laughing Child is only one of a dozen...