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...Jesse Holman Jones...
Died. Charles Jacob ("The Sec") Holman, 70, longtime secretary, later chairman of the Pittsburgh Stock Exchange; of pneumonia; in Pittsburgh. No kin to Torch Singer Libby Holman, he was the stepfather of Evelyn Nesbit Thaw...
...nosing for "Love, Drama, Crime" copy the gaudy Journal last fortnight outdistanced other papers of its type with a front-page series whooping up next month's trial of Torch-Singer Libby Holman for the murder of her husband Smith Reynolds, tobacco scion. The Journal sent its correspondent to Winston-Salem, N. C. to interview everyone in the case, accompanied his reports with elaborate picture layouts under such sympathetic headlines as: FACTS HELP LIBBY'S DEFENSE. PROSECUTOR LACKS LIBBY MOTIVE, CLAIM LIBBY 'EXONERATED' BY SECRET AUTOPSY...
...Bardossy of Hungary), socialite babies (Peter & Palmer Dixon of Southampton, L. I.), champion babies (Gillingham F. Landis, onetime winner of the Ocean City, N. J. baby parade). There was no mention of deceased baby-of-the- year Charles Augustus Lindbergh Jr. or unborn baby-of-next-year Smith Holman Reynolds. Promised for the next issue-was the "inside story" of "the most famous baby in the world. She was famous even before she was born. Her existence disturbed a number of highly important people, and there were legal battles about her. Now she is going contentedly and quietly about...
From Miami, where he had arrived from South America, Playboy Richard Joshua Reynolds, 26, hurried home to Winston-Salem, closeted himself with family lawyers who told him what they knew about the death of his brother Smith, for which Smith's widow, the former Libby Holman, and his best friend Albert ("AB") Walker are awaiting trial. "R. J." Jr. read the coroner's inquest testimony, then announced: "In view of all the facts available at this time, I believe my brother's death was murder." A New York Sun newsman asked heavy-jowled Col. Jacob Ruppert, brewer...