Word: joe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Good Joe...
...trying to bring dignity to Marilyn Monroe's funeral instead of permitting it to degenerate into a Hollywood spectacular, Joe DiMaggio should receive the gratitude of all those who honestly held her in affection and respect...
...real reason for his presence was right at Kennedy's elbow: Democrat George McGovern, South Dakota Congressman from 1957 to 1961, Kennedy's Food for Peace director until last month, now a candidate for the U.S. Senate. McGovern, running neck and neck with Republican Incumbent Joe Henry Bottum (who is filling the vacancy created by the death of Republican Francis Case), greeted Kennedy at the airport, rode beside him in an open convertible to the dam, sat on the speech platform...
...Price of the Image. But guilt became a bitter pout when Joe DiMaggio, Marilyn's second husband once removed, arrived in town to bar Hollywood from the funeral. His quiet, classic plea for privacy extended even to Mrs. Pat Lawford, sister of President Kennedy and one of Marilyn's last close friends. When Marilyn's attorney complained that DiMaggio was keeping all her friends away, DiMaggio coldly answered: "If it weren't for those friends, she would still be alive." Only Peter Lawford publicly complained ("I'm shocked"), but Marilyn's movie friends, smarting...
Some kept mercifully silent. Joe DiMaggio was one. Arthur Miller, her last husband and only interpreter, said simply: "She could have made it with a little luck." He could not believe her death was suicide. She had, he once said, "the gift of life"-a classic pantheism. "Please Don't Kill Anything" was his title for a short story he once wrote about her and the litany he had her speak in The Misfits. Her gift, he had said, was a response "to the most elemental part of the human being near her, his propensity for hurting or helping...