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Died. Libby Holman, 65, tragedy-plagued torch singer of the 1920s and 30s; in Stamford, Conn. Beauty and an earthy voice propelled her to stardom on Broadway, where she is best remembered for her bluesy renditions of such songs as Body and Soul and Moanin' Low. In 1931 she married Tobacco Heir Zachary Smith Reynolds, who was mysteriously shot to death the following year. Libby was indicted, along with one of Reynolds' friends, but murder charges were dropped for lack of evidence. In 1945 her second husband, Actor Ralph Holmes, died from an apparent overdose of sleeping pills...
...have gone on to other publications or different fields. Our first Washington correspondent, for example, was Henry Cabot Lodge, who since has had a memorable career in politics as a Senator, Republican vice-presidential candidate in 1960, and ambassador to the United Nations and South Viet Nam. During the 1920s and '30s, our masthead was graced by the presence of Novelists John O'Hara and Frank Norris, Poets Stephen Vincent Benet and Archibald MacLeish. Theodore White, Robert Sherrod and John Hersey were TIME correspondents during World War II. Poet-Critic James Agee gained his first measure of fame...
...format was first popularized by Editor Herbert Bayard Swope on the Pulitzers' old New York World in the early 1920s. It is now used by many U.S. papers, which usually fill it with syndicated columns. At the Times, that particular page had for decades been the repository of the obituaries. To begin the new feature, the death notices were banished to the second section, making room for a dizzying diversity of views and opinions that perhaps only the Times, with its great prestige, could bring together. Regular Columnists James Reston, C.L. Sulzberger, Russell Baker and Tom Wicker share...
Died. Donald F. Duncan, 78, popularizer of Yo-Yos and parking meters; of a stroke; in Los Angeles. When he first saw Filipino immigrants playing with a crude toy in the late 1920s, Duncan was not impressed: "It looked like nothing, like a potato on a string." So he devised a slip string that let the wooden "potato" spin, registered the name Yo-Yo and embarked on a high-power promotion campaign. Youngsters looped the loop to the tune of up to $7,000,000 annually in sales for Duncan. Although he made another fortune by manufacturing parking meters, Duncan...
Died. Elmo Roper, 10, dean of modern political pollsters; in Norwalk, Conn. Roper first realized the value of polls in the late 1920s, when he became an ace clock salesman by sampling the tastes of his customers. He co-founded a New York market-research firm in 1933 and then became the first pollster to adapt scientific sampling techniques in forecasting an election; he predicted F.D.R.'s 1936 plurality within one percentage point of the popular vote. The Literary Digest-then the big gun of polling-picked Alf Landon as the winner. Though he conducted polls for FORTUNE...