Picture of Joe and WHO?
Fredcharles
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Can you help me with this picture? I found it in the attic and would like to known who is the person with Joe and is it worth anything.
Can you help me with this picture? I found it in the attic and would like to known who is the person with Joe and is it worth anything.
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But seriously, Joe didn't smile much at other people unless there was money involved so perhaps he was a businessman of some type.
I think it is not WS.
<< <i>By the big nose, could it possibly be Warren Spahn? >>
Spahn? Come on now! LOL
Seriously, I think it's a Yankees exec. I've seen him before, can't recall the name. Love those suits, though.
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Jimmy Durante?
"How about a little fire Scarecrow ?"
Larry McPhail :
"How about a little fire Scarecrow ?"
<< <i>I don't think it's Marilyn Monroe. >>
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but cannot catch a certain name............
The search is "Dimaggio mobster friend "
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Joltin' Joe DiMaggio and screen legend Marilyn Monroe had agreed to remarry before she died of a drug overdose in 1962.
DiMaggio, considered by many the greatest baseball player of all time, also had mob ties that enabled him to leave baseball in 1951 with a special "trust fund" waiting for him, according to a new biography.
Author Richard Ben Cramer wrote Joe DiMaggio: The Hero's Life, a book that paints the famed Yankee Clipper as a tightwad who would turn on friends and fans.
The book is excerpted in Newsweek, on sale today, while more details of Cramer's findings were revealed in Sunday's New York Daily News. The book is to go on sale Tuesday.
DiMaggio died March 8, 1999, after a battle with lung cancer. A legend during his 13 seasons with the New York Yankees, he played on 10 pennant winners, nine World Series champions and captured the nation's attention with his 56-game hitting streak during the summer of '41.
Three years after he left baseball he married Monroe. During their nine-month marriage, DiMaggio sometimes struck her, and he stalked her after they divorced, according to the Daily News. Still, before her death, they agreed to remarry, the paper said.
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Other revelations in Cramer's book, according to the Daily News and Newsweek:
Mobster Frank Costello took care of DiMaggio with a trust fund set up at the Bowery Bank. DiMaggio, who was earning $100,000 annually when he left the Yankees, could draw on the bank account for cash.
Whenever he made an appearance at one of the nightclub's Costello ran in New York-night spots such as the Copa, Stork Club and El Morocco-another $200 was added to the account.
Cramer alleges that DiMaggio's lawyer, Morris Engelberg, cheated him out of hundreds of thousand dollars in memorabilia in the last days of his life.
"Absurd," Engelberg told the Associated Press from his home in Hollywood, Fla.
"Over a 16-year period, I waived more than $5 million of agent fees, plus legal, accounting and other fees, which amounted to a significant sum of money. Why would I `scam' a few thousand dollars from Joe DiMaggio? Anything I asked from him, he always said yes. Just look at the walls in my offices and home."
According to Cramer, Engelberg made a secret deal to get 2,000 baseballs made specially for Joe DiMaggio Day at Yankee Stadium on Sept. 27, 1998, with the intent of having them unwittingly signed and then sold for his own gain without DiMaggio's knowledge.
"That is absolutely ridiculous." Engelberg said. "I never bought 2,000 balls; Joe never bought 2,000 balls. An outright lie."
DiMaggio was obsessed with money, and expected his friends to take care of him just for allowing them to spend time with him, according to Cramer. Cars, trips, meals were never paid for by the Yankee legend when someone else would pick up the tab.
In 1989, when an earthquake interrupted the World Series between the San Francisco Giants and Oakland Athletics, DiMaggio left the game in Oakland and hurried to his home near San Francisco.
There, he hurried upstairs and emerged a few minutes later carrying a bag.
He met news crews outside, asked for help locating his sister who had fled the house after the earthquake, then left to stay at the exclusive Presidio Club.
"And he'd sleep well there," Cramer writes. "With the garbage bag, which held six hundred thousand dollars cash."
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Not certain, yet.
Frank Costello :
or maybe Bela Lugosi :
"How about a little fire Scarecrow ?"
By MAURY ALLEN
of TheColumnists.com
New York City night life in the 1930s, after the war in the 1940s and throughout the 1950s and 1960s was a dream to be lived. Kids from Pocatello and Peoria filled the theaters, the clubs, the bars and the restaurants.
The sports guys filled a joint called Toots Shor’s.
It was run by a Mars-like man who had come north from Philadelphia to work as a bouncer in the speakeasies of the 30s and stayed on long enough to run his own celebrated hangouts for three decades.
Yogi Berra and Ernest Hemingway would be at one table and Walter Cronkite and Frank Gifford at another. Jackie Gleason would be drunk at the round center room bar and Joe DiMaggio would be hiding from “civilians” at a back table. Whitey Ford and Peter Duchin would be exchanging tunes in the back and sportswriters, including this one of dozens of years ago, would be thrilled to be in the same room as the huge owner would anoint us as “crumb bums.” That simply meant you belonged.
Shor introduced Hemingway to Berra and described him as a writer to which Berra asked, “Yeah, what paper are you with?”
Casey Stengel danced on the floor after a hundred drinks in 1965, broke his hip in a fall in the rest room and retired from managing after 55 years in the game. Things like that always happened around Shor’s.
Shor’s granddaughter, the lovely, bright, ebullient Kristi Jacobson, has captured all this in her brilliant film on the grandfather she never knew in the Tribeca Film Festival production of “Toots,” running now in Manhattan theaters and soon to be seen on a television station near you.
“I was so lucky that so many people responded so warmly to the idea,” Jacobson said.
She began the project eight years ago and finished it hours before its Tribeca Film Festival Premier on April 27.
She said she picked up the phone, called Cronkite and he responded by asking, “What can I do for you?”
Try getting Walter Cronkite or any of these pals of Toots on the phone, Andy Rooney, Mike Wallace, Gifford (with or without Kathie Lee), Yogi, producer David Brown, Duchin, Joe Garagiola, artist LeRoy Neiman, writers Sid Zion and Gay Talese or reformed mobster Gianni Russo, who described his life in the underworld with Frank Costello at the Toots hangouts.
All of these celebrities hung out at Shor’s, enjoyed the unique sporty ambiance, ate and drank (mostly drank) at the 51 West 51st restaurant and later at the newest one at 52nd street which never really made it because it was too big and those good old days were gone. They all told tales. Some were even true.
Jacobson’s film captures Shor incredibly well. It was not the food, the drink, the celebrities leaning at the bar or even the chance to see Joe D that drew the crowds. It was the owner himself. As described in the film, the greatest stage show in New York was at the Toots Shor restaurant with the owner being the best gig in town.
There is a very touching moment in this spectacular film. It takes place at Yankee Stadium when a gifted football player named Frank Gifford is cut down in one of the game’s most brutal tackles by Philadelphia’s Chuch Bednarik. Gifford suffered a severe concussion.
He described the event at the premier party.
“I was out the rest of the year and decided to quit,” said Gifford. “Then I started thinking of how much I would miss the game early in 1961. I went to talk about it with Toots and he reminded me of what I had already accomplished and how much I owed it to myself to see that I really was finished. I took his advice, came back and went on for several more years including a couple of pro bowl seasons.”
Gifford, the sedate third of the original Monday night football crew with garrulous Howard Cosell and Dandy Don Meredith, the former QB for the Cowboys, stole the post-premier show with his loving tales about Toots and the warm remembrances of Giants glories of the past.
Toots provided an umbrella in his joint for all classes of people from notorious gangsters to amazing entertainers and sports legends. Justice Earl Warren once sat at a table next to killer Frank Costello. Frank Sinatra was drawn to the place with Joe DiMaggio and Jack Dempsey.
“I don’t care what they did outside of my joint,” Shor said. “If they were friends of mine in my place they were friends.”
What Jacobson has captured remarkably and what will make the film a feature attraction in every city across America was the excitement of New York from the post-prohibition days to the dreariness of the Vietnam War.
The moving photography and the still pictures she has included of the city life, the night adventures and the four star celebs around Toots make this a wonderful way to spend an evening.
Toots Shor was an incredible New York character, known by all. He attended the famous 1941 fight between Joe Louis and Billy Conn and walked down to his seat at Yankee Stadium with Joe DiMaggio and Ernest Hemingway. All the fans howled at Joe and many yelled at Toots. They weren’t sure of the other guy. One asked Toots who Hemingway was. “Oh, that guy,” said Shor, as he pointed to America’s most famous celebrity writer, “he’s Joe’s doctor.”
Toots is gone now. Long live granddaughter Kristi’s film of Toots.
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