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Like many a bridegroom, honeymooning Joe DiMaggio, no mean idol himself when he batted for the New York Yankees, went virtually unnoticed last week as Japanese by the thousands swarmed to meet his bride, the former Miss Marilyn Monroe of Hollywood, Calif. At Tokyo's International Airport, Marilyn's fans pressed so thickly about the arriving couple that both were forced to scramble back into the airplane that had brought them, escaping later through its baggage hatch...
...press conference in the hotel that night, a few sportswriters doggedly stuck to questioning Outfielder Joe, but as usual, Mrs. DiMaggio stole the show. "Hey, you should ask me about that," called Joe when one reporter asked Marilyn about her hoped-for six children, but another reporter leaped in with an even more pregnant question: "Do you agree with Kinsey san's report on women...
...been walking," said Mrs. DiMaggio firmly, "since I was six months...
Using baseball's sprirfgtime holdout technique, Cinemactress Marilyn Monroe, who considers herself underpaid ($1,250 a week), refused to go near her Hollywood studio. Instead, with new hus band Joe DiMaggio she flew off to Japan, where ex-Yankee Joe will work with old-time Giant Outfielder "Lefty" O'Doul at coaching Japanese baseball teams...
...delivering something better, but not doing so well financially." He adds, however, "Don't feel sorry for me." We don't, for Kramer made over $300,000 last year. And if worse comes to worst, he can always re-marry for money as did a brother pro athlete, Joe Dimaggio...