Word: dimaggios
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...sincerely appreciated your May 14 story on Norma Jeane Baker Dougherty DiMaggio Monroe. Maybe Marilyn Monroe Productions will film the life story of this amazing girl; I'm sure M.M. would win an Oscar if it did. Suggested title: "Grushenka Monroe, 12-Year-Old Sweater Girl...
...result of all the heavy thinking, Marilyn began to nag her studio for better parts, and to wonder if she really should not marry baseball's Joe DiMaggio, with whom she had been keeping company for more than a year. When Fox told her flatly that she could have Betty Grable parts or nothing, Marilyn walked out of Pink Tights. She and Joe were married in San Francisco on Jan. 14, 1954. Laughing for the cameras, they took their trip to the Far East, where Japanese crowds smashed doors, mobbed cars and fell in fish ponds...
Turning out for a National Basketball Association doubleheader in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden, baseball's great ex-Slugger Joe DiMaggio, 41, onetime New York Yankee now turned gentleman of leisure, and his husky son Joe Jr., 14, watched stoically as the Boston Celtics beat the Minneapolis Lakers (in to 104). They also kept poker faces while last season's champions, the Syracuse Nationals, hooped in a 98-to-91 victory over the butterfingered New York Knickerbockers...
...electing Yankee Catcher Yogi Berra the Most Valuable Player in the American League for the second year in a row and the third time in his career. Other three-time American League winners: Jimmy Foxx, of the Philadelphia Athletics and the Boston Red Sox, and the Yankees' Joe DiMaggio...
...their pitching is any better than ours. We beat their big fella [Don Newcombe] twice in the 1949 series. The first game it was 1-0 and Tommy Henrich hits one out of the park in the ninth inning. But that's what you need and I had DiMaggio and Keller and where do you find outfielders like that now? But we beat the fella [Newcombe], and we beat the other one [Carl Erskine] although he's a good pitcher...