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Former New York Yankee Slugger Joe DiMaggio yielded to the chidings of movie columnists and made bold to pay his first visit to a movie set and watch his wife, Marilyn Monroe, in action. She was rehearsing that old Irving Berlin scorcher, Heat Wave, for a movie called No Business Like Show Business. During the usual interminable delay, DiMaggio turned to Movie Gossipist Sidney Skolsky, one of the chiders, and muttered: "I keep reading in the papers and fan magazines that I must be an odd ball . . . be cause I don't visit my wife...
...Milwaukee, rooters for the third-place Braves smashed their own National League attendance record of 1,826,397, set last year. In Boston, aging Ted Williams, 35, walloped his 24th home run of the season, the 361st of his career, and tied the lifetime total of old Rival Joe DiMaggio. In Cincinnati. Gil Hodges raised his runs-batted-in total to 100, became the only active major leaguer to turn the trick for six consecutive years...
Cries of outrage swelled into a chorus in the U.S. press, aided by Hollywood's alert pressagents, out to defend their clients' stock in trade: "I am not built for any kind of boy's fashions, so why should I wear them?" said Mrs. Joe DiMaggio. TV's robustious Dagmar went on record: "Frankly, honey, the instrument hasn't been made that can flatten me out." Growled Marlon Brando ungallantly: "Emphasizing women's hips is like putting falsies...
...with his showman's manner and his in-the-clutch timing, Willie Mays is baseball's sensation of the season. To the scandal of some sentimentalists, he is already being talked of as the equal or even the better of the great Tris Speaker and Joe DiMaggio. He has hit 33 home runs in 89 games-a pace which puts him six games ahead of Babe Ruth's majestic record of 60 homers, and there are some impetuous enough to suggest that Willie is the one to climb that Everest of baseball some...
Willie started with the Giants' farm club in Trentom, N.J. in the Class B Inter-State League. By the next spring (1951), he was up to Triple A ball in Minneapolis. Willie was working overtime on his hitting. He collected pictures of his favorite ballplayer, Joe DiMaggio. He studied Joe's stance in the batter's box, patterned his swing after the Yankee Clipper's. Mays began to connect almost every other time...