Schwarzenegger for president?

Los Angeles — Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger said he would be interested in running for president if the Constitution were amended to allow foreign-born citizens to seek the nation’s highest office.

During an interview for Sunday’s CBS program “60 Minutes,” Schwarzenegger, 57, said, “Yes, absolutely” when asked if he would like to run and would support such an amendment.

Schwarzenegger, a native of Austria, came to the United States in 1968 and built a fortune as a champion body builder and actor. He won his first bid for public office in last year’s gubernatorial recall election in California.

But the day job’s not bad

New York — Writer Tom Wolfe says he would have happily put off writing to pursue a major league baseball career, but he was cut by the New York Giants in 1952 after just two days in the organization.

Still, the 73-year-old author of such novels as “The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test” and “The Right Stuff” tells Time magazine for its Nov. 8 edition that he made a good showing during a tryout with the team, which later moved to San Francisco.

In three innings, Wolfe says he left three men on base with no runs scored. He had a good screwball and a nice sinker, but his fastball was weak.

“If somebody had offered me a Class D professional contract, I would have gladly put off writing for a couple of decades,” he said.

Fond tribute

Augusta, Ky. — Late singer and actress Rosemary Clooney’s old Kentucky home could soon be turned into a museum displaying memorabilia from her singing career under a plan proposed by her one-time neighbor, former Miss America Heather French Henry.

Henry and her husband, former Kentucky Lt. Gov. Steve Henry, said they planned to buy the home within the next two weeks, renovate it for use as a public museum and also live in it part-time with their two children.

Clooney, a Maysville native and the aunt of actor George Clooney, had No. 1 hits in the ’50s, including “Come On-a My House” and enjoyed a resurgence of popularity late in life that resulted in four nominations for Grammy awards.

She was 74 when she died of lung cancer in 2002.