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...explanation of Rickey's career may be that husky, ham-handed Branch, who loves the game as much as the clicking of a Saturday-afternoon turnstile, was never a top man in baseball's ordinary occupations. In his 20s he broke into the majors as a catcher for the Cincinnati Reds, but he was no star-and besides, Pious Methodist Rickey refused to play on Sundays. He tried managing the St. Louis Browns, but he lacked the temperament to field-boss some of his hardbitten pros. He found himself, and became Innovator Rickey, when he put his college...
...year-old Eddie Cantor last week skipped through the Colgate Comedy Hour (Sun. 8 p.m., NBCTV) and his first appearance on television. Though surrounded by bright young people from current Broadway shows, Cantor looked as durable and sentimental as ever. He re-enacted skits from musicals of the '20s and sang such old favorites as Ain't She Sweet? and Ma, He's Making Eyes at Me. Headlined Variety: "Cantor Sock in Debut ... Vet Showman a TV Natural." A twelve-city Hooper survey rated Cantor eleven points higher than CBS's competing Toast of the Town...
Died. Lou Clayton (real name: Louis Finkelstein), 63, onetime partner of Jimmy Durante (with Eddie Jackson, they made one of the most popular horse-play-and-patter teams of the '20s), his manager since 1932; of cancer; in Santa Monica...
Divorced. Jackie (The Kid) Coogan, 35, No. 1 U.S. cinemoppet of the '20s, currently sales director of a kitchen equipment firm; by Ann McCormack Coogan, 26, onetime nightclub songstress, his third wife; after four years of marriage, one daughter; in Los Angeles...
Ford kept up the steady flow of his own writing-novels, criticism and reminiscence. But after a brief period in the '20s, when some of his novels became bestsellers in the U.S., he sank more & more into the twilight of Parisian cocktail parties and U.S. college lecture platforms ("an old man mad about writing," he once described himself). As a lecturer at Michigan's Olivet College in the '30s, he reminded one student of Tristram Shandy's garrulous Uncle Toby-a "vast, benevolent and harmless Uncle Toby, leaning on his stick . . . and wheezing out his stories...