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...admires viciousness. "I know," he says, "people picture me running over Ray Fosse in the All-Star Game [of 1970]." Scoring the winning run, Rose spread the catcher like apple butter. Fosse's shoulder and career came unhinged. "I wish it hadn't happened," Rose says. "It ruined that kid." But he adds, "I'm glad we won the game." Regarding comparisons with Cobb, Rose joins in few of the arguments. "I don't steal bases like he did, and he didn't wear a tie on the road like I do." It will be fine with Rose if people...
Robinson lasted one-third of an inning in his starting debut, suffering four hits and four errors. Rose eventually arrived at the mound. " 'I got to take you out,' he told me. 'No reason. I just got to. You got bad luck or something, kid. Go home and turn your mirrors the other way.' " That was worse than devastating, but not as awful as being the last...
...Thorpe, a touring pro since 1975 who had never won but had finished second three times, was assured the $90,000 first prize even before he made a putt to force a playoff with Verplank. The kid was only eligible to play for a trophy. In a grill at Boston's Logan Airport, where a television set was tuned to the Western Open, senior golfers who had been completing their own competition in nearby Concord trickled in from the final round. One greeted the other who hailed the next. "Come look at this, the kid's got a chance...
Anyone who stops to look closely can always spot one kid who seems to hold himself apart from the crowd. There is just something about him: a shrewd look in the eye, a certain alertness in his carriage. This summer the movie analogy to that promising lad is called Real Genius...
...kid from Arkansas who came to New York City, worked her way through 17 secretarial jobs and then became a hot advertising copywriter. But that was just the beginning. In 1962 she wrote Sex and the Single Girl, which made her a best-selling author, and three years later she was named editor of Cosmopolitan, then a publication for staid ladies. Helen Gurley Brown whomped up some flashy first-person ads about the Cosmopolitan Girl, who could be sexy, savvy, successful, and yet loving and interested in raising a traditional family. The formula clicked: the magazine's circulation went from...