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...veered from the issues at hand, Reagan said. The General Secretary was at serious labor. Gorbachev showed little curiosity about the White House or the people invited to meet him, did not talk about American history or heroes. "I don't know if he knew just who Joe DiMaggio was," said Reagan, recalling how, at the Yankee Clipper's request, he had asked Gorbachev to autograph a baseball. "But I explained that Joe was one of our great athletes, and he signed the baseball...
...State Dining Room was filled with the unlikeliest 125 people one could imagine supping together: Henry Kissinger and Meadowlark Lemon, great Globetrotters both; Claudette Colbert and Moscow's supreme propagandist, Alexander Yakovlev; Ted Graber, Nancy's interior designer, and Georgi Arbatov, the Kremlin's noted American expert; Joe DiMaggio and Pearl Bailey; David Rockefeller, Mary Lou Retton and Saul Bellow...
...disputes about substance, and its spirit was captured during a private moment between Mikhail Gorbachev and Ronald Reagan on the morning after they signed their historic arms accord. The President led the Soviet leader to a little study next to the Oval Office and produced a baseball that Joe DiMaggio had hoped to have autographed by Gorbachev at the state dinner the night before. Reagan was not just fulfilling the old Yankee slugger's request. He had a metaphor in mind. Are we, he asked, going to play ball? Yes, Gorbachev firmly agreed. Then the two men rejoined their...
There used to be no cure for the ennui of the returned hero. Now there is and it is worse than the disease. It is celebrityhood. Last winter a Washington radio station began a news roundup with this: "Joe DiMaggio, baseball hall of famer, former husband of Marilyn Monroe, and also Mr. Coffee, had surgery today." Hero status, unless arrested by artistic device (the fade-out) or tragedy (an early death), decays. There is a trajectory to fame, and it points downward...
...offensive achievements of certain players can be compared to those of such legends as Ty Cobb and Joe DiMaggio. Boston's Wade Boggs hit .357 last year. Yankee Don Mattingly had 238 hits...