Friday, Jan. 31, 1964

Born. To Jayne Mansfield, 30, sometime cinemactress (It Happened in Athens), and Mickey Hargitay, 34, Mr. Universe of 1956: their third child, first daughter; in Santa Monica, Calif.

Born. To Phil Silvers, 51, hornrimmed funnyman, and Evelyn Patrick Silvers, 30: their fifth child, fifth daughter; in Hollywood.

Married. Lamar Hunt, 31, prime founder of the four-year-old American Football League, owner of its Kansas City Chiefs, son of Oil Billionaire H. L. Hunt, one of the nation's wealthiest men; and Norma Lynn Knobel, 25, high school history teacher; he for the second time; in Richardson, Texas.

Died. Joe Weatherly, 41, national stock-car racing champion for 1962 and 1963 (last year's earnings: $58,110), a 17-year veteran who was known as "The Clown Prince" for his practical jokes, scorned the shoulder harness 80% of stock-car racing drivers wear, saying "when my time comes, no piece of rag's gonna save me"; of head and chest injuries inflicted when his 1964 Mercury crashed into a retaining wall during a race; at Riverside, Calif.

Died. Barbara Keith, 42, Hartford, Conn., widowed grandmother of ten, a sport parachutist and balloon enthusiast who once said, "I go up in a balloon because it's living. Who wants to sit home and knit an afghan when you can sit suspended under a 40-foot bag and be part of the wind?"; by drowning, when her hot-air balloon drifted off course during a race from Santa Catalina Island to the Southern California coast, was found 42 hours later.

Died. Marc Blitzstein, 58, satiric composer who jolted even the class-conscious '30s with his pro-labor operetta, The Cradle Will Rock, mellowed slightly after the war (he renounced Communism in 1949, the year his opera Regina appeared), but kept a spare set of sharks' teeth pearly white, dear, for the English adaptation of Brecht's Threepenny Opera, which ran six years off-Broadway, made a jukebox gigolo of Mack the Knife; in Fort-de-France, Martinique, where police charged three sailors with beating him to death.

Died. Joseph Schildkraut, 68, Vienna-born actor who won star billing on Broadway in 1921 as the carnival barker in Molnar's Liliom, parlayed his talents into more than 60 screen roles, two dozen onstage, 80 on television, commencing with romantic leads in his salad days (Ibsen's Peer Gynt, Benvenuto Cellini in The Firebrand), evolving into character parts such as Papa Frank in The Diary of Anne Frank; of a heart attack; in Manhattan.

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