Word: toppered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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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...
...when Hopalong insisted on his own horse, Colonel Leonard says he agreed to raise the money for Topper's airlift. Then the blow fell. "The next thing I knew there was a telegram from Cassidy saying he couldn't make it because of 'conflicting engagements.'." Unanimously backed by some 50 civic groups sponsoring the event (including the Veterans of Foreign Wars, who are stuck with a medal struck for Hopalong), Colonel Leonard turned the matter over to an attorney. He gave an even more ominous indication of the public temper: "You know what my kids...