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...year-old Pittsburgh Pirates outfielder, generally acclaimed as one of the best baseball players of all time, died last New Year's Eve in a plane crash off the shore of his native Puerto Rico...
...Boston Red Sox announced Friday the signing of third baseman Rico Petrocelli and outfielder Tommy Harper bringing to 30 the number in the fold for the 1973 American League baseball season. Both received pay increases...
...Puerto Rico's new cardinal, Luis Aponte Martinez, is the son of a poor mountain-country couple, the eighth of 18 children. Archbishop of San Juan since 1964, he is an amiable, moderate conservative who often puts in a 16-hour day but stays out of the island's political battles. One name was notably missing from the five other Latin Americans to get red hats: Brazil's famed prelate of the poor, Dom Helder Pessoa Camara, Archbishop of Olinda and Recife. But Dom Helder did not go unrewarded. The same day the papal list became public...
...story matched in truth Hollywood's fantasy about itself: an immigrant lad from Rumania, upward mobility via New York's City College, a scholarship to an acting academy, a theater apprenticeship, a break in the movies. A stage portrayal of a gangster led to the role of Rico in Little Caesar (1930). It was only Robinson's fourth picture-100 more were to come-but he realized perfectly the character of the brutal, power-crazed mobster. He also created a stereotype for himself and a durable genre for Hollywood...
...Robinson played him, Rico was more than a hood. To Depression audiences he was also a banty nobody with the guts to defy the big boys. When he growled, "Now do it my way, see?" they recognized an offer that could not be refused. Many similar roles followed and Robinson evolved with them. Playing the bad guy in Key Largo (1948), Robinson was a transformed criminal; the savage nobility of Rico was gone and only evil remained...