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...Gravediggers went on strike at Barrow-in-Furness, England. They complained they were being "worked to death...
Back to Buffalo. No such criticism had ever come from the front office during the serene reign of Manager McCarthy (ex-Boss Ed Barrow never strayed that near the base paths). Shortly, gregarious Joe McCarthy found himself suffering from "a nervous condition." After steering clear of the stadium for a few days, he offered his resignation...
Divorced. Staff Sergeant Joe Louis Barrow, 30, deadpan heavyweight boxing champion who now sports a G.I. mustache; by Marva Trotter Barrow, 27, nightclub singer; after ten years of marriage (one child); in Chicago. She had filed suit in 1941 but dropped it a few weeks later...
Died. Charles D. ("King of the Arctic") Brower, 83, rich Alaskan whaling and trading bigwig, famed host whom the late Will Rogers and Wiley Post were flying to visit when their plane crashed in 1935; of a heart attack; in Point Barrow, Alaska...
...million-dollar construction business. The other big moneyman was Marine Corps Captain Dan Topping, heir to a tin-plate fortune and owner of the Brooklyn Football Tigers.* The man with the ideas was baseball's brilliant screwball, redheaded Colonel Leland Stanford ("Larry") MacPhail -who aging ex-Boss Ed Barrow once said would buy the Yankees "over my dead body...