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...Topper" Reynolds grew up, Libby stopped singing Moanin' Low, Body and Soul and the other torch songs that made her famous. She studied serious drama, collected American folk music, and learned from left-wing Negro Balladeer Josh White how to sing with the proper guttiness. In 1939, she got married again, to Ralph Holmes, an actor eleven years her junior. But that marriage, too, ended in the moody sadness Libby used to sing about. Holmes died in 1945 from an overdose of sleeping pills...
Died. Christopher Smith Reynolds, 17, only son of Torch Singer Libby Holman and Tobacco Heir Zachary Smith Reynolds, and Steven Rice Wasserman, 17, son of Philadelphia Financier William Stix Wasserman; of injuries after a fall, while trying to scale the craggy east face of California's Mt. Whitney (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...
...angle, however, in the form of Jane Peters, a country girl who comes to work for Douglas, imposes itself early in the plot and proceeds slowly but firmly to obscure the climax of the parody. Although Jane Peters has one moment of glory in a night club torch song, she is terribly miscast for her main role as the governess in the Douglas household. For a character who should be strong-willed enough to attract Douglas, she manages to make most of her behavior seem spineless and effeminate...
Last summer near Albuquerque, New Mexico some General Electric technicians set out to do something about the weather. On July 21 they vaporized ten ounces of silver iodide in a gas torch on the ground. 320 billion gallons of water, enough to fill all the reservoirs in New York, fell on the desert that afternoon. A lot of people would like to believe there was some connection...
...winner of the 1948 Grand Prix de Berne auto race, and President Miguel Aleman's chauffeur, whose handsome new Cadillac, fresh from the palace garage, bore the name Coche México. There was a Los Angeles war veteran driving a 13-year-old Cord, a red-haired torch singer from Mexico City, a Texas grandmother sponsored by a brassiere manufacturer, and a 70-year-old Arizona widow with her 72-year-old ranch foreman...