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Divorced. By Sylvia Sidney, 40, stage and screen actress (An American Tragedy, Dead End): her third husband, Carlton Alsop, fiftyish, sometime radio producer and advertising executive; after four years of marriage, no children; in Los Angeles...
...Bill Veeck knows that free beer is no substitute for good baseball. He plans to shake up the club, "from manager to batboy," talks of building up his pitching staff (he has only one first-string pitcher, Ned Garver) by dusting off famed old (fiftyish) Relief Pitcher Satchel Paige ("Satch plays better now that he's had all his teeth pulled") and buying a Japanese pitcher now playing in Honolulu ("If a ballplayer can help this club I'll take him if he's blue with pink spots"). He will sift the minor leagues for power hitters...
Divorced. Stanley Raymond ("Bucky") Harris, 54, onetime boy wonder of baseball, now manager of the Washington Senators, whom he steered to their first and only World Series championship in 1924; by Elizabeth Sutherland Harris, fiftyish, daughter of West Virginia's late Senator Howard Sutherland and sister of Lieut. General. Richard K. Sutherland (ret.), MacArthur's World War II chief of staff; after 24 years of marriage, three children; in Titusville...
Died. Countess Ida Coudenhove-Kalergi, fiftyish, onetime Viennese actress, longtime collaborator with her Austrian-Japanese husband, Count Richard Coudenhove-Kalergi, in his career as the founder and most articulate advocate of the Pan-European Union, designed to combat nationalism and prevent war; of a heart attack; in Nyon, Switzerland...
Fisher, 62, millionaire speed-racing, art-collecting automobile executive, only bachelor of Detroit's five living Fisher ("Body by Fisher") Brothers, onetime president (1925-34) of Cadillac Motor Car Co., General Motors vice president (1934-44); and Dolly Roach, fiftyish, his great & good friend for more than 20 years; last July...