Friday, May. 05, 1961
Died. Pamela Wilde Kastner Garroway, 34, pert second wife of TV Star Dave (Today) Garroway; presumably from an overdose of barbiturates; in Manhattan.
Died. John Joseph (Jack) Barry, 73, slick-fielding shortstop who teamed with "Stuffy" Mclnnis at first, Eddie Collins at second and "Home Run" Baker at third to form the "$100,000 infield"* that sparked Connie Mack's old Philadelphia Athletics to American League pennants in 1910, _ 1911, 1913 and 1914, a weak (.243) hitter whose glove work was so superb that Mack called him "the greatest shortstop there ever was," named him to his "dream team" in 1948; of cancer-in Shrewsbury, Mass.
Died. Leo Samuel Levy, 75, crusty, sardonic newsman, who set an unofficial and perhaps unapproachable editorial record by surviving for 50 years as managing editor of the Oakland Tribune, where his hard-driven staff always respectfully addressed him as "Mr. Levy"; of a heart attack; in Orinda, Calif.
Died. Mary Craig Kimbrough Sinclair, 78, a Mississippi beauty who married muckraking Socialist Crusader Upton Sinclair in 1913, devoted the rest of her life to his myriad causes (vegetarianism, Prohibition and three campaigns for the governorship of California), his writing (75 books) and, finally, to keeping him "at home and out of mischief"; of a heart attack; in Pasadena, Calif. Herself the author of sonnets and a sprightly autobiography, Southern Belle, she described "Uppie" as "a dual personality--a helpless child in his personal affairs and a brave and skillful fighter in the cause he loved."
Died. Robert Garrett, 85, Baltimore banker, collector of ancient Oriental manuscripts, and last survivor of the 13-man U.S. squad that won the unofficial team victory in the first modern Olympiad in 1896; of arteriosclerosis; in Baltimore. After arriving in Athens tired and out of shape a day before the Games began, Garrett, then a Princeton junior, unkinked quickly, finished first in the shotput and the discus throw (which he had never tried before), took second in the broad jump and high jump.
Died. Thomas Henry Connolly, 90 the man behind the plate when Chicago beat Cleveland, 8-2, to launch the American League in 1901, an even-tempered, English-born umpire who once went ten years without thumbing a player from a game was named to Baseball's Hall of Fame in 1954, the year he quit the game; of a heart attack; in Natick, Mass.
* Roughly equal to $1,000,000 in these days of watered-down dollars, just as Baker's 1911 American League-leading total of nine home runs would surely have been higher with today's souped-up baseball.
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