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Died. George Ehret Ruppert, 73, younger brother of the late beer baron, Colonel Jacob Ruppert, and longtime vice president of the colonel's New York Yankees (1915-45); in Manhattan...
Died. Alvin Jacob ("Jake") Powell, 39, rough & tumble onetime outfielder for the New York Yankees and Washington Senators; by his own hand (automatic pistol); in a Washington police station while being questioned about bad checks. Powell reached his peak in the 1936 World Series when he hit .455, went into a permanent slump four years later after he crashed head-on into a wall while chasing a fly ball...
Student division--Francis X. Sutton, Junior Prize Fellow in Social Relations; Robert Solow 2G, Jacob C. Levenson, Teaching Fellow; Richard Webster '51, treasurer of the Seminar; William D. Weeks '49, president of the Student Council, and one other member from the Council, as yet undesignated...
...General Jacob L. Devers, chief of Army Field Forces, had a comforting word for prospective draftees. The General promised that they would be treated as persons "of individual dignity and feelings, entitled to courtesy and consideration"-and hear no profanity from their sergeants...
Died. Major Jacob Daniel ("Japie") Smuts, 42, modest, gold-mining son of Field Marshal Jan Christian Smuts, who once served as his father's aide-de-camp; of meningitis; in Johannesburg, South Africa...