Word: dimaggio
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...manager of Spokane's successful Expo '74. Spurney is considering a variety of cost-cutting and money-raising stratagems (the train now costs $20,000 per display day). But he also might well think about more stops at unjaded towns like Archbold, where a look at Joe DiMaggio's baseball bat and rocks from the moon is apparently still worth two dollars from the kitchen sugar bowl...
...awakened in them the purest essence of their love for Boston and baseball, he has transported them back to a Land of Oz. And as usual, this nirvana is an anachronistic place. Bars rustle wwth talk of Freddy Lynn--who is he like. Ted Williams or Joe DiMaggio? The comparison is borne of the old debate between those two heros, in the Golden Age of modern Boston baseball, when the Yankees were regarded with about as much affection as the National Socialist Party in Germany a few years before. Lynn might have been compared to Willie Mays the same early...
...depended on half a century of winning, even if that seemed gone forever for a while. The Boston fans were angry with the smugness of the Yankee equanimity--one I knew, transplanted to the heartland of the enemy, used to say fiercely that Dom had been the only real DiMaggio. Joe could hit a little better, he conceded grimly, but Dom had him beat by miles in the field...
Churchill, Stalin, De Gaulle, Marshall, Hemingway, Faulkner, Picasso, MacArthur, DiMaggio, Joe Louis, all seemed to have been around forever and to have a limitless future. There was no room for small figures in the pantheon. An entire generation retreated into a posture of silence, pursuing their desires down a bland alley. Pop culture-film, comics, records and below all, TV-became the national pacifier...
...Leonard Lyons was a more recognizable fixture at Manhattan's expensive restaurants than any six headwaiters. He came not to dine but to gather crumbs of gossip, morsels of color-occasionally some meaty news-about any celebrity he could buttonhole in his non stop table-hopping. Was Joe DiMaggio flying to New York "for some dates at El Morocco"? Lyons heard it there and so reported. What did Artur Rubinstein's wife cook for dinner the night before? The pianist gave Lyons the answer (Polish chicken) at the Côte Basque. Was it true that Jacqueline Susann...