Word: torch
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Reynolds, at 20, was found shot dead at Reynolda in 1932. His second wife, Torch Singer "Libby" Holman, and his secretary were indicted for murder, but charges were later dropped...
...fanned the General's casual and candid remark into an inflammatory "attack," and the torch had been taken up by Jewish leaders who are usually responsible, by some who are usually not, and by comedians like Eddie Cantor (TIME, Jan. 14). Even the New York Times had tossed some faggots on the blaze. Its off-the-cuff editorial judgment of General Morgan's remarks: "It was an insult to six million tortured dead." Walter Winchell, who writes for the Hearst press, said it louder: "Morgan must not only be fired, he must be repudiated by His Majesty...
Died. Ralph Holmes, 30, wartime Army airman, actor brother of Actor Phillips Holmes (killed in a 1942 R.C.A.F. crash), son of Old Trouper Taylor Holmes, second husband of Torch Singer Libby Holman (who was cleared of the 1932 shooting of her first husband, Tobacco Heir Zachary Smith Reynolds); of barbiturate poisoning (apparently from an overdose of sleeping tablets); in Manhattan...
...been an orphan before the battle for Manila-she had lived in Intramuros (Manila's old walled city) with her father and mother until Japanese soldiers began putting buildings to the torch. Then her terrified parents had hurried her along smoke-filled streets to a crowded cathedral...
Bull-Necked Males. "The creature familiar as Superman is the leader of a swarm of satellites separated from him only by a copyright. Scores of comic books feature similar characters-for example, Catman, Bullet Man, The Human Torch, Captain Midnight, Captain Marvel, Black Terror, Blue Beetle, Green Lama, Yankee Boy, Bogey Man-which follow the Superman pattern of a 'hero' who overcomes all obstacles with machine-like precision. Often, victory comes from frankly preternatural powers . . . propulsion and X-ray vision: these heroes' bull necks are often a pretty fair index of their intellectual prowess...