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Died. Libby Holman, 65, tragedy-plagued torch singer of the 1920s and 30s; in Stamford, Conn. Beauty and an earthy voice propelled her to stardom on Broadway, where she is best remembered for her bluesy renditions of such songs as Body and Soul and Moanin' Low. In 1931 she married Tobacco Heir Zachary Smith Reynolds, who was mysteriously shot to death the following year. Libby was indicted, along with one of Reynolds' friends, but murder charges were dropped for lack of evidence. In 1945 her second husband, Actor Ralph Holmes, died from an apparent overdose of sleeping pills...
...ascension is less a passing of the torch than a changing of the guard and renovation of the guard-house. Pusey is the last of the four top administrators responsible for the April 1969 student strike to resign. Gone already are Fred L. Glimp '50, former dean of the College; Robert B. Watson '34, former dean of Students and now director of Athletics; and Franklin L. Ford, former dean of the Faculty...
...accompaniment of a single piano. Watching from the lip of the Winter Garden's stage, Bolwell said: "I'm amazed by the ability of the performers to provide us with an instant replay whenever we ask for it. They can stop in the middle of a torch song or freeze a high kick without sacrificing one ounce of showmanship...
Rarely have such searching, unsentimental questions and answers been put to a Broadway audience with such elegance and expertise. Sally's number Losing My Mind is the torch-singing peak of the show, but Sondheim's entire score is an incredible display of musical virtuosity. It is a one-man course in the theatrical modes of the '20s, '30s and '40s musicals, done not as parody or mimicry, but as a passionately informed tribute. Michael Bennett's dances have a charged, steely precision, a top-hat, hot-pants staccato rhythm. James Goldman...
...Tanzania, Nyerere's rechristened nation, and for the rest of the countries that entered the 1960s with such great expectations, the torch has proved a flickering beacon. Some of the dreams of uhuru have been shattered; a very few, such as the founding of the Organization for African Unity in 1963, have been fulfilled. Black Africa is embarking on its second decade of independence with a more realistic outlook and sounder, brighter hopes of genuine progress. But the prediction that the Duke of Gloucester offered to the leaders of Nigeria in 1959 still rings true: "The future...