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...Holman's private life has given her a right to sing the blues. In 1931 she married 20-year-old Z. (for Zachary) Smith Reynolds, heir to a $28 million cigarette (Camels) fortune. Eight months later, he was shot through the head at a drunken party. With a splash of tabloid headlines, Libby and Reynolds' male secretary were indicted for murder, then freed for lack of evidence. Six months after his father died, Christopher Smith ("Topper") Reynolds was born. He inherited $7,000,000 (Libby...
When Dr. Otto John, chief of West Germany's security organization, defected to the Communists, the news made black headlines all over the free world. Last week the State Department totted up some figures which were a reminder that one big splash often makes more news than a handful" of river. Germans. Since mid 1950, "only a handful" of Germans have crossed over to a the Communists. The most eminent besides John (classified as a "leading official"): one member of the West German Parliament, one provincial legislator. In the same period, 1,800,000 Germans have fled from East...
...foul ball, we've gotta get out there and play it." Another time, when Snead heard that Bing Crosby had just won the Academy Award, he said, "Gee, that's swell. How'd he do it-match or medal play?" After his first big splash in California, Snead saw his picture, a Wirephoto, in the New York Times. He was amazed. "Now how'd they ever get my picture?" he asked. "Ah never been in New York." The Big Money. To Snead, golf is strictly business. For relaxation he prefers hunting and fishing (he caught...
...months with the 45th Infantry Division in Korea, announced he was available for Yankee third-base duty until July 1, when he expects to quit baseball for full-time doctoring in the San Francisco Hospital. EURJ In New York, Tommy ("Hurricane") Jackson, the two-fisted flailer who made a splash as a heavyweight recently (TIME, April 12), was finally stopped by a competent light-heavyweight named Jimmy Slade, who outboxed and outfoxed Jackson in a ten-round decision...
...younger generation of musicians, he had a strong bent for the moderns, the more "difficult" the better. He made his first big splash when he introduced the spectacularly demanding Bartok Concerto to the U.S. in Cleveland in 1943, continued to get billowing reactions wherever he played it. ("Was this the best since Heifetz," wrote the San Francisco Chronicle's Alfred Frankenstein after a 1948 performance, "or was this just the best, period...