Milestones, Mar. 27, 1950

Divorced. By Virginia ("Ginny") Simms, 31, toothy, Texas-born songstress of radio & screen: Hyatt Robert Dehn, 40, building contractor, who was dropped from New York's Social Register when he married Ginny; after nearly five years of marriage, two sons; in Santa Monica, Calif.

Died. Ralph Greenleaf, 50, dapper, 16-time world champion of pocket billiards; of bronchial pneumonia; in Philadelphia. Greenleaf, who did for pool what Babe Ruth did for baseball, set an official world's record in 1929 of 126 balls without a miss, once, in an exhibition match, pocketed 269 straight balls.

Died....

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