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...fellowship, Rose gravitated to the black players, and was warned by the front office about fraternizing too much with Robinson and Vada Pinson. "Pete is turning nigger on us" was the brutal expression of the day. "But they were the only ones who treated me like a human being," he says. "I think now maybe they were able to see something in me." Robinson remembers it this way: "We accepted him for what he was. They called him a hot dog for trying to do things he couldn't. We admired him for laboring beyond his skills. They resented...
Rose's first night on the road, he came in at curfew to find that his roommate had put the chain on the door. "I didn't know where to go, but finally I went to Vada's room and he let me stay over. I remember it like yesterday because the next morning was the first time in my life I ever had room service. Vada bought breakfast. It was $12.75." His store of figures charms most people but bothers a few. On the last day of Rose's rookie season, Stan Musial scratched a single to each side...
...house was packed, 12,000 strong, for the fourth annual Bollywood Awards. At the food kiosks in the lobby, patrons lined up for jalebi, aloo vada and samosa chole. Onstage, Indian TV chat maven Ruby Bhatia provided hyperbolic introductions ("His immense talent is about to unfold on this very stage!") to a dozen or so Indian musical acts that whipped the crowd into a cheerful frenzy. And subcontinental film celebrities came by to accept awards in such categories as Best Villain, Best Comic and Most Sensational Female...
...house was packed, 12,000 strong, for the fourth annual Bollywood Awards. At the food kiosks in the lobby, patrons lined up for jalebi, aloo vada and samosa chole. Onstage, Indian TV chat maven Ruby Bhatia provided hyperbolic introductions ("His immense talent is about to unfold on this very stage!") to a dozen or so Indian musical acts that whipped the crowd into a cheerful frenzy. And subcontinental film celebrities came by to accept awards in such categories as Best Villain, Best Comic and Most Sensational Female...
...Middle America, you get a lot of honest opinions," says Vada, unintentionally insulting the entire left and right coasts. But then, would you want, say, New York City, which is basically a psychiatrist's office surrounded by a moat, to decide whether Wheat Thins need a makeover? "We don't jump on a lot of fads. We can get a more accurate reading on the long-term responses of consumers...