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...hazing his teammates gave him, the rookie became an animal. "I was just a mild-mannered Sunday-school boy," Cobb liked to reminisce 40 years later. "But those old-timers turned me into a snarling wild-cat." They snubbed him, sawed his bats in half, locked him out of hotel rooms. He responded with his mouth, his fists and his average. In Cobb's first full year he hit .320, and that was to be his worst mark ever. In the era of the spitball he led the league in hitting a dozen seasons, and went over .400 three times...
...quote a character in Insignificance known only as the Actress (Theresa Russell) but plainly meant to represent Monroe. The other three main characters find real-life correlatives just as easily. Indeed, the plot could be synopsized as follows: What if Albert Einstein (Michael Emil) were threatened in his hotel room by Senator Joe McCarthy (Tony Curtis), then visited by Marilyn Monroe, who explains the theory of relativity to its creator, then interrupted by Joe DiMaggio (Gary Busey), who wants a divorce or maybe just a little attention...
...least one delegate, it must be reported, walked from his hotel to the U.N. "My people wouldn't like it if I rode around in a big motorcade," shrugged Frazer Sine of Vanuatu, a nation of 80 islands in the South Pacific. Sine even took the New York subway. "Interesting" was his diplomatic observation...
...become a savvy financier. He is now a member of a partnership that includes eight current and former basketball players. Among Abdul-Jabbar's investor mates are Ralph Sampson of the Houston Rockets and Terry Cummings of the Milwaukee Bucks. Their first investment was the $1 million Redmont Hotel in Birmingham, which they are spending nearly $5 million to remodel. A $22 million Los Angeles health club is under construction. The group is also negotiating to buy the Inn of Laguna in Laguna Beach, Calif. Asking price: $4 million...
Abdul-Jabbar & Co. offers basic hotel management with one unusual touch. Some rooms are customized to accommodate exceptionally tall guests. There are 12-ft.-high doors, 15-ft. ceilings and extra-long beds. Says Thomas Collins, the group's financial adviser: "One of the worst things that happens is when the guys travel and the beds are too short or they can't get in the shower." SURVEYS Money...