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...Back in New York's Yankee Stadium for an Oldtimers Day reunion of former Yankees and Detroit Tigers, Joe DiMaggio at 42 still looked good enough to make the league, cracked out a single in a brief exhibition "game" of the ancient pros, later trotted the winning run across home plate with oldtime grace...
Chest a Bust. Another private eye told a story of going with Joe DiMaggio and Frank Sinatra, on Nov. 5, 1954. to raid a building where Marilyn Monroe was spending the night (they broke into the wrong apartment). The detective's report, stolen or sold from the files, matched in every detail a leering account of the fiasco in the September 1955 issue of Confidential. (Also called. Sinatra denied under oath that he had participated in the actual raid.) Hollywood brass was so worried by the peephole press, said a third private eye, that major studios once considered raising...
...show, and managed to serve up the fastest variety bill of the new season. Ex-Hoofer Winchell, hat on head, staccato voice spitting old Winchellisms ("The land you love, the love you land"), clowned edgily around a stage clogged with celebrities (Sammy Davis Jr., Joe DiMaggio, Martha Raye, Dorothy Kilgallen) who did nothing much but stand around being celebrities. But the singers worked to good effect: Lola Fisher, understudy for Julie (My Fair Lady) Andrews, singing I Could Have Danced All Night as if she could have; Perry Como's cool, limp delivery of new lyrics to Debussy...
Only a few hundred players make the grade in the majors, but those who do these days need only a minimal skill at managing their own finances to become men of means. Though few will become a Joe DiMaggio, the poor fisherman's son who rose to fame, wealth and social prestige, most will merit Professor Gregory's envious comment on the Yankee Clipper: "And the Lorde was with Joseph, and he was a luckie fellowe" (Genesis 39: 2, Tyndale's translation...
...Some who have tried: Joe DiMaggio, Tommy Henrich, Dizzy Trout, Waite Hoyt, Gus Mancuso, Jack Graney, Harry Heilman, Gabby Street, Pie Traynor, Bump Hadley, Mickey Heath, Dizzy ("He slud into second") Dean, Buddy Blattner, Frankie Frisch...