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...order to become a young sports hero and rescues the Washington Senators from their perennial losses. The fan reserve the right to cancel the bargain on one particular midnight in the fall. From there on, it is a contest between the devil, a Mr. Applegate, and the retreaded slugger. Having pushed out a host of good songs in the first act, Ross and Adler go home about half an hour before the musical ends, but the intricacies and humor of the plot carry the show effortlessly...
...rough-and-ready slugger who insists that all he does is "throw punches until something gives," Champion Peele is more of a stylist than he likes to admit. Bobbing, weaving, ducking, he is an elusive target; he knows how to fight his way out of trouble with furious flurries. "He has every punch in the book." says his admiring coach, J. T. Owen. "And he has that something extra-that Dempsey instinct. He wants...
Divorced. By Marilyn Monroe, 28, No. 1 U.S. movie siren: Joseph Paul DiMaggio, 40, onetime Yankee slugger; after nine months of marriage; in Hollywood. In an underplayed 15-minute courtroom scene, black-suited Cinemactress Monroe stepped forward on cue from famed Lawyer Jerry Giesler, tearfully announced that instead of the "love, warmth and affection" she had expected from Joe, she had found only "coolness and indifference...
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...
Rain-chased from Fenway Park, the Red Sox yesterday drilled for two hours in Briggs Cage. The practice was high-lighted by Ted Williams' first heavy batting practice since he broke his collar bone. Harvard coaches and players watched the injured slugger, who may be ready to pinch hit this weekend...