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...days, the headlines had chanted that the count was 3 & 2. Yet on the night when death finally came to Babe Ruth, New Yorkers found the news hard to believe. Newspaper switchboards lit up within minutes after the radio bulletin, and were jammed for hours. At Memorial Hospital five extra operators were put on, to repeat over & over that Ruth had died...
...cancer of the throat, or had merely known -since the last rites of the Roman Catholic Church were administered July 21-that he was bound to die; they told conflicting stories about whether Teropterin had been used to treat him. They quoted the priest who blessed the Babe ("He died a beautiful death"). They quoted or put quotes into the mouths of moppets who hung around the hospital ("Urchins from nearby brownstone houses and cold-water flats," sniffled the Daily Mirror, "huddled in the dark outside . . . fighting off tears when the news came"). For days, photographers had been carefully posing...
Great Gate. The day of the funeral, it rained. With admirable restraint, nobody wrote that "Even the skies wept for the Babe"-except the New York Times's Sport Columnist Arthur Daley, who passed off the remark on a defenseless taxi driver. In St. Patrick's Cathedral, Francis Cardinal Spellman presided at a Requiem Mass (attended by 6,000), with Governor Dewey, New York's Mayor O'Dwyer and Boston's Mayor Curley as pallbearers. The press reported that 75,000 people were "in the area," which could be said of Rockefeller Center any weekday...
Back from a desperate search for a human-interest story, a Minor sport-writer wrote: "Ed Barrow, the Babe's rough, tough baseball father, pulled up the shade on the years to let the sunshine of the Bambino's rollicking history pour through the room of his tree-shrouded Rye home as he abstractedly nodded: 'Babe Ruth was just a human citizen-a human American citizen.'" Westbrook Pegler, putting his worst (kickless) foot forward, told how Ruth, "a burly oaf [who] could suck half a pound of tobacco and spit through his ears," had autographed...
Died. George Herman ("Babe") Ruth, 53, baseball's home-run king; of cancer; in Manhattan (see SPORT...