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Died. Albert James ("Albie") Booth Jr., 51, Yale '32, 5-ft.7-in., 144-lb. football quarterback, dropkicker, All-America; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. Yale's Little Boy Blue scampered to fame against Army in 1929, outshining the great Chris Cagle, scoring three touchdowns and kicking three extra points as Yale overcame a 13-0 disadvantage to win 21-13. His playing career never left the high plane of its beginning. In his senior year Harvard entered the Yale game undefeated. After 57 minutes of hard, scoreless play, Captain Albie Booth took a snap from center, dropped...
...Rupublicans and America, dislikes Democrats and Nasser, eschews conjunctions. Despite these shortcomings it is a rollicking, frolicking smashit in the rough, tough dog-eat-dog newsmagazine game, has huge advertising revenues, publishes several international editions. Publisher Henry Luce, a semi-literate Yaleman (his wife is femalegate to Brazil Clare Booth Luce), was "unavailable for comment" today as irate mobs hurled Bolivitriol at the U.S. embassy and Information Office in reaction to the latest piece of Timeddling...
...three-sport athlete, Both was forced to miss the basketball season because of pleurisy contracted in the 3-0 triumph. But he had one more great effort in him; he licked the disease in time for the Harvard-Yale spring baseball series. In a story-book drama, Booth came to bat with the bases loaded, two out, and the Crimson ahead, 2 to 0. After the count reached three and two, Booth smashed a mighty grand-slam home run that decided the contest...
After a few seasons of semi-pro baseball, Booth entered the ice cream business. In the 1947 he was named manager of a New Haven company...
Last Saturday night, Booth attended a Broadway play with his wife. Later in the evening, he collapsed and was taken to St. Elizabeth's Hospital. Early Sunday morning Albie Booth, age 51, died of a heart attack, and the entire world of sports was left to mourn its loss...