Milestones: May 5, 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...

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