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...sickness and in health, Marilyn Monroe, 35, has always found ex-Second Husband Joe DiMaggio, 47, tall, dark and handy. Last week, visiting him for the second straight year at the winter encampment of the New York Yankees, she discreetly stayed out of view in the DiMag menage at Fort Lauderdale's Yankee Clipper Hotel for two days before Batting Tutor Joe cut practice to put her on a plane in Miami, wound up all the way from centerfield for a goodbye buss. Fetching up next in Mexico City, Marilyn scoffed at rumors that she might remarry DiMaggio...
Divorce & a Horse. Divorce was Giesler's other specialty. Married twice himself (he had two daughters and one son), he helped Barbara Hutton divest herself of Cary Grant, took the side of Lady Sylvia Ashley against Clark Gable, Marilyn Monroe against Joe DiMaggio. In his most bizarre case, he defended the life of a horse named Tom Boy whose owner's will had decreed that the stallion should be destroyed to save him from mistreatment; and in perhaps his most celebrated case, he won an acquittal for Charlie Chaplin, charged with a violation of the Mann...
Next day, when he breezed into the Yankee office for a contract chat with General Manager Roy Hamey, perennial Holdout Mantle was the picture of noblesse oblige. He signed without protest for $82,000-the second highest salary in Yankee history (topped only by Joe DiMaggio's $100,000) and a $10,000 boost over his 1961 earnings. Then he sparred pleasantly with newsmen. Would he try to cut down on strike-outs (112 in 1961) next season? "That's been my goal for six straight years," said Mantle. "I haven't done much about...
...League. Single instance of backsliding: "The time that Wheaties was running a most-popular-player contest. Mother [the late Mrs. Payne Whitney] called the cook and asked her please to buy lots of Wheaties for the children and to clip the box tops so she could vote for Joe DiMaggio...
...Yankees are undoubtedly the strongest-hitting Yankee team since 1939 -when Joe DiMaggio, Charley Keller, Bill Dickey & Co. lowered the boom on hapless Cincinnati in the World Series, won in four straight games. Only three players hit over .300-Elston Howard (.353), Mickey Mantle (.317) and Johnny Blanchard (.305)-but Roger Maris slammed a record 61 home runs, Mantle hit 54, and no fewer than six Yankees hit 20 or more. So powerful was the Yanks' new Murderers' Row that First Baseman Bill Skowron (28 homers) found himself batting seventh in the lineup...