Word: dimaggio
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...home loft." Similar experiments were going on among the human species. Ava Gardner and Frank Sinatra were apparently reconciled after their recent spat and took off, cooing, for London. Marilyn Monroe (see CINEMA), on the other hand, was showing clear signs of cooling in her affections for Joe DiMaggio, while Rita Hayworth and Aly Khan definitely called it quits, with Aly settling a reported $50,000 a year on daughter Yasmin. Aly, reported Rita's lawyer, C. Bartley Crum, had behaved like a thorough cad: "Why, he even complained when she took French lessons...
...Yankees took their fourth straight, their19th since 1921. Weakened by Joe DiMaggio's retirement, the loss of Second Baseman Jerry Coleman to the U.S. Marine Corps and the aging of an already elderly pitching staff, the 1952 Yankees seemed at times only a shadow of prewar Yankee teams. They did lead the league in batting; but second-place Cleveland had a decided edge in power hitting, even more of an edge in pitching...
...probably be the writer who suddenly becomes aware that Mickey Mantle is not the Joe DiMaggio of the future, but the Mantle of today, a fine ball player who is as much a threat and clutch hitter as Joe ever...
...baseball is a highly technical game," they watched in awe and bewilderment as a team of Spanish all-stars trounced Italy's home club 7 to 3. High point of the game: Spanish Outfielder Antonio Casals' seventh-inning fuori di campo (home run). He was no Joe DiMaggio: his modest drive down the right-field line was called "fair" by the umpire, but Italy's rightfielder, disregarding the decision, decided on his own that the ball was foul and disdained to chase...
...whittled for himself from the center of a tree struck by lightning. And when Pop finally gave him his chance, he made beautiful music with it. He belted homers almost without trying, but he was more than just a slugger. It developed that he could throw like DiMaggio and field like Tris Speaker. In short, he was a natural. The whole team caught fire from him; within a few weeks, the Knights were back in the pennant fight...