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Moanin' Low was written especially for a lawyer's daughter from Cincinnati named Elsbeth Holman. Singing it in a throaty voice that could turn the male will to quivering aspic, Libby Holman captured Broadway when she was only 26. It was a strangely prophetic song...
...Libby Holman became the wife of 20-year-old Zachary Smith Reynolds, moody, eccentric heir to $28 million of the Camel cigarette fortune. Seven months after the wedding, he was shot through the head at a drunken party. Libby and a friend of Reynolds' were indicted for murder, then freed because of lack of evidence against them, and because there were indications that Reynolds had been thinking of suicide...
Theaters & Mountains. More than ever, her son-a slender, reserved and intelligent kid-became the center of Libby Holman's life. They went on long trips together and worked at summer theaters, Libby as a performer, Topper as a stagehand. She visited him often at Putney School in Vermont, and stood by proudly last June when 17-year-old Topper, chairman of Putney's student council, graduated near the top of his class. This summer, Libby toured Europe. Topper went to California with Stephen Wasserman, a classmate, to work in one of the mines owned by Stephen...
Often, TIME'S business stories anticipate important front-page news to come. One such was the cover story on Eugene Holman, president of Standard Oil Co. of N.J. (March 24, 1947), which explained the corporation's $300 million expansion into Middle Eastern oil as an attempt not only to make money but at the same time to convey the "tangible benefits of free enter prise" to a backward land. Almost two years later the U.S.'s Point Four plan for world recovery was launched to encourage just such tangible benefits as this...
...varsity's man to man defense, except for its failure to stop the set shooting of Joe Holman, held together in the first half--though at the cost of giving the Tigers 16 foul attempts on which they scored 13 points. In the second half the defense crumbled badly, particularly under the basket...