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Died. James Aloysius Robert ("Honest Bob") Quinn, 84, veteran baseball executive, who went broke as boss of the Boston Red Sox (1923-33) before selling out to Lumber Millionheir Tom Yawkey, later became president of the Boston Braves (1936-45), director of the National Baseball Museum (1948-52); in Providence...
Tape Worm. In Milwaukee, Mrs. Helen Dettlaff, suing for divorce, testified that her husband Aloysius always made her explain where she had spent her day, tape-recorded her answers in order to check them for discrepancies...
After twice examining Aloysius Cardinal Stepinac in Yugoslavia, where he is confined by government order to his home village, two American physicians reported that he was "not in any immediate danger" from his blood disease (an excess of red blood cells), thought he "still can live many, many years...
...Border Captain. Hickory-tough Royce Martin is himself a transplant from Texas, where he was born in Clint (pop: 770). He has always had a way with metals and money. An orphan at 9, Martin moved to Chicago, finished school at St. Aloysius Academy, and got his first feel of metals working in the toolshop of Chicago's Felt & Tarrant Mfg. Co. (marine motors). He first got the feel of money when he returned to Texas, and later went to Mexico as a railroad shop foreman...
...Simmons (real name: Aloysius Harry Szymanski), 49, hard-hitting outfielder (lifetime average: .334) whose famed foot-in-the-bucket batting stance was the terror of American and National League pitchers for 20 years (1924-44). As a Philadelphia outfielder in the heyday of Connie Mack's Athletics, Simmons hit over .300 for nine straight seasons, won the American League batting title...