Word: lupica
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Dates: during 1949-1949
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...Cleveland, there was a wake. After 113 days of squatting on a platform above his confectionery store "until the Indians got back in first place," Exhibitionist Charley Lupica (TIME, Aug. 19) was invited down last week by Bill Veeck, exhibitionist president of the Cleveland baseball club. In the mathematics of the 1949 pennant race, the Indians, World Series winners a year ago, were dead. To mourn the sad occasion, Veeck, crowned with a silk hat but still without a tie (he never wears one), drove a horse-drawn hearse into Municipal Stadium with all the Indians trailing along as pallbearers...
Also without qualms was Charley Lupica of Cleveland, who swore that he would sit on a flagpole until the Indians moved into first place in the American League. Last week the Indians were in third place and Charley was still aloft, on a platform fitted out with a television set, a down-filled mattress and a telephone...