Person: Joe DiMaggio

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sport

Obituary: Gene ‘Stick’ Michael - The Yankees executive who helped build late-1990s dynasty teams

What Stick lacked in muscle, he compensated with grey matter.

food

Look to Spanish red wines for value, flavour and depth

rugby

Peter Jackson: Yogi Berra’s warnings unheeded

world

Marilyn Monroe’s dress could fetch $500k

celebrity

For sale: The love letters of Marilyn Monroe

The NFL is facing into a major brand-salvaging operation

Living proof style never goes out of fashion

Journalist and author Gay Talese has been setting the standard for writers on and off the page for almost 50 year

Sat, 02 Aug, 2014

The fluctuating price of Sterling

The controversy about racist comments from Donald Sterling, owner of the LA Clippers NBA team, is bubbling along in the US.

Mon, 05 May, 2014

The man who dressed Marilyn

“... A lush-bodied girl in the prime of her physical beauty. In an ivory georgette crepe sundress with a halter top that gathers her breasts up in soft undulating folds of the fabric. She’s standing with bare legs apart on a New York subway grating. Her blonde head is thrown rapturously back as an updraft lifts her full flaring skirt, exposing white cotton panties. White cotton! The ivory crepe sundress is floating and filmy as magic. The dress is magic ... ”

Mon, 23 Sep, 2013

How JBM even got Tramp hot under the collar

A few weeks ago, this column had a chat with Robert Lipsyte, an American sportswriter of such eminence that ringing his house was like ringing 1-800-OLYMPUS and asking for Zeus himself.

Mon, 27 Feb, 2012

26-foot-tall Marilyn statue unveiled in Chicago

A 26-foot-tall sculpture of Marilyn Monroe in her famous pose from the film 'The Seven Year Itch' has been unveiled on Chicago’s Magnificent Mile.

Sat, 16 Jul, 2011

Photographs show ‘other dimension’ to Monroe

A book features never before seen pictures of star, writes Eoin English

Sat, 18 Jun, 2011

Dylan’s positively forthright views on the sporting life

ROBERT ALLEN ZIMMERMAN turned 70 this week.

Fri, 03 Jun, 2011

Baseball turns its lonely eyes to DiMaggio again

LIKE MOST people my age who entered adolescence between Italia 90 and USA 94, I depended on the fleeting sporting icons du jour to shine a light on the permanent sporting icons of the past.

Wed, 30 Mar, 2011

Losing the plot

Seconds Out

Sat, 19 Feb, 2011

Power failure left me think darts just bull

FIRST a confession.

Fri, 07 Jan, 2011

Plot sale near film legend

AN American widow is selling her husband’s burial spot directly above film legend Marilyn Monroe so that she can pay off her mortgage.

Tue, 18 Aug, 2009

Monroe's studio sex session nightmares revealed

Tragic movie icon Marilyn Monroe's casting couch nightmares have been exposed in a new book by her former best friend June DiMaggio.

Wed, 09 Nov, 2005

Monroe mystery deepens with new 'confession'

On the anniversary of Marilyn Monroe’s death, a former prosecutor has unveiled what he says are notes of her secret confessions to a psychiatrist that show her as anything but suicidal.

Sat, 06 Aug, 2005

Marilyn art work sells for €64,000

A PAINTING by Marilyn Monroe has been auctioned off with her personal phone book with numbers for Frank Sinatra, Jack Benny and scores of other celebrities for over $150,000 (€123,000) in Los Angeles.

Mon, 06 Jun, 2005