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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Married. Dominic ("The Little Professor") DiMaggio, 30, Boston Red Sox centerfielder, youngest of the hard-hitting DiMaggio brothers (Vince, Joe and Dom); and Emily Alberta Frederick, 25, pretty brunette; in Wellesley, Mass...
...objections melted. Joe was peeping through a knothole one afternoon, watching brother Vince play, when a Seals' scout, Spike Hennessey, clapped him on the back. How would he like to come inside for a tryout? Joe could think of nothing he wanted more. Five years later, little brother Dom was given his chance too, on the strength of being a DiMaggio...
Within the DiMaggio family circle, relative batting averages are a cause of pride, but bear no relationship to the affection the members feel for each other. Bespectacled Dom is the family pet. "Oh, you ought to see him run the bases," his sister Marie says. "He's like a little rabbit." The entire family, including Joe, has been extremely pleased by the couplet that Red Sox fans have been chanting this year to the tune of Maryland, My Maryland...
...better than his brother Joe-Dom-in-ic DiMaggio...
...head of the procession which escorted Zhdanov's body from the ornate, white-columned hall of Dom Soyuzov (House of Unions), where it lay in state, to Red Square, two blocks away, walked a group carrying a giant portrait of the dead man. Next came nine generals, one admiral, three civilians, each carrying on a red plush pillow one of Zhdanov's 13 military, naval and civilian decorations. 'The open red and black draped coffin rode on a caisson pulled by six jet-black, white-harnessed horses. Zhdanov's mustached, lifeless face was green...