Monday, Jun. 27, 1960
Marriage Revealed. William Palmer Pyle Jr., 22, Michigan State football tackle signed this year by the Baltimore Colts, son of a Chicago food company executive and brother of Yale's football captain-elect; and Marie Judith Accardo, 20, willowy, blonde daughter of "Tough Tony" Accardo, an heir to Al Capone's Chicago crime syndicate; in Chicago on May 23.
Divorced. Leo Durocher, 54, loud but expert ex-manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers and New York Giants, who resigned last fall from a high-paying NBC job but has since kept his famed lip from flapping about a rumored return to baseball; by Laraine Day, 39, sweet-smiling film and TV star; after 13 years of marriage, two adopted children; in Juarez, Mexico.
Died. Jimmy Bryan, 33, thrice U.S. auto-racing champion, winner of the 1958 Indianapolis 500; from injuries suffered in a racing wreck; in Langhorne, Pa.
Died. Frank Silver (born Silverstadt), 58, longtime drummer and conductor of vaudeville-pit orchestras, who in 1922 collaborated to turn the cry of a Long Island Greek fruit peddler, "Yes! We have no bananas," into a song worth nearly $70,000--most of which he lost in the 1929 stock-market crash, and failed to recover in 75 lesser-known pop works, -such as Icy-Wicky-Woo and What Do We Get From Boston? Beans, Beans, Beans; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Brooklyn.
Died. Msgr. Matthew John Wilfred Smith, 69, editor of the Catholic Register since its founding in Denver in 1913; following abdominal surgery; in Denver. Starting with a circulation of 2,800, Father Smith worked "ungodly hours" to expand the Register into the world's biggest chain of religious newspapers, with one national and 32 diocesan weekly editions, an international semimonthly, and a combined circulation of 850,000. Under Father Smith, the Register's interests ranged from speculation on church appointments (FOUR RED HATS EXPECTED) to Catholic views on U.S. foreign policy (CATHOLIC
WOMEN ATTACK TRADE WITH RED LANDS).
Said Father Smith of his job: "I'd rather be the editor of the Register than cardinal archbishop of New York."
Death Reported. Ana Rabinsohn Pau-ker, 65, longtime Communist matriarch, who as Foreign Minister ran Red Rumania from 1947 until her downgrading to a minor job in 1952; of cancer; in Bucharest. After joining the Communists in 1921, the Bucharest-born Jewess spent 15 years in and out of Rumania and jail before going to the Soviet Union. In 1945, one year after her return to Rumania, Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister Vishinsky visited, noted Mrs. Pauker's power over the incumbent regime, departed purring, "I feel very lighthearted."
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