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...Detroit Tigers slugger and American League Most Valuable Player Hank Greenberg entered the army on May 7, 1941, the day after he hit two home runs against the Yankees and seven months before Pearl Harbor. The season of 1941 was a magical one; Ted Williams hit .406 and Joe DiMaggio hit safely in 56 straight games. By 1943 both were in uniform, spending three years in the prime of their careers serving a calling higher than baseball...
...quarter century or so, Flynn and Hemingway, the Astors and the Windsors, Frank Sinatra and Joe DiMaggio checked in at the old speakeasies turned chic eateries, all within a few blocks of one another. The Stork Club, at 3 East 53rd Street, was the top spot - a 1945 movie was named for it, and the place could be seen in "All About Eve" and Hitchcock's "The Wrong Man" - but you could find plenty of notables inside El Morocco ("Elmo's," at 2nd Avenue and 54th Street) and The "21" Club (founded in 1921 at 21 West 52nd), with...
...Progressive Student Labor Movement (PSLM) “has never just been about achieving a living wage,” as member Daniel DiMaggio ’04 wrote in a recent opinion piece. But the issue of higher wages for Harvard’s workers has also been the overwhelming focus of the group’s efforts for the past 18 months. What will take its place...
...pressure could convince the Corporation and Overseers to dilute the power of the alumni, or could bring about the kind of constitutional convention that would be needed to iron out the details of representation. And students certainly aren’t of one mind on the issue—DiMaggio calls for an “enormous education campaign” to “convince” students that they are unhappy with the current system of governance...
...Daniel DiMaggio ’04 is a member of the Progressive Student Labor Movement...