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General George S. Patton Jr. sat up in bed for the first time since his neck-breaking auto crash, faced an uncertain future with good humor and good appetite. He moved his shoulders, still could not move his hands or legs...
Died. Ralph Holmes, 30, wartime Army airman, actor brother of Actor Phillips Holmes (killed in a 1942 R.C.A.F. crash), son of Old Trouper Taylor Holmes, second husband of Torch Singer Libby Holman (who was cleared of the 1932 shooting of her first husband, Tobacco Heir Zachary Smith Reynolds); of barbiturate poisoning (apparently from an overdose of sleeping tablets); in Manhattan...
...people, the decade of the twenties has a world of associations-- the Lost Generation, Greenwich Village, money, alcohol, sex, money, and Crash! You can throw F. Scott Fitzgerald in there somewhere, too. "Billion Dollar Baby" ignores the interesting things about the Jazz Age, and laughs condescendingly, at the length of ladies' skirts, at dance marathons, at speakeasies, and at all the shallow surface of a frenzied...
...Billy Jr., who was a promising left fielder with the Toronto Maple Leafs, became an Army Air Forces pilot in 1941, was killed last winter in a B-29 crash. It took Billy Sr. half a season to get back in stride...
Died. Jack Nichols, 49, T.W.A.'s vice president in charge of international operations, onetime Congressman from Oklahoma (who headed a House committee investigating airplane crashes); in an Army 6-25 crash; on an airline survey flight from Asmara, Eritrea, to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia...