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Although this lovely, light brown-haired leading lady would wind up better known as one of Loretta Young's two elder acting sisters, Sally Blane nevertheless enjoyed a lively albeit modest "B" film career during the late 1920s and 1930s. The resemblance to her "A"-level sister was very strong -- the same graceful, elongated face and fawn-like, wide-set eyes. Unlike her younger sister, however, Sally lacked strong determination and ambition. Although she remained on the second or third Hollywood tier throughout her career, her film output was considerable if mostly routine.
Sally was born Elizabeth Jane Young in Salida, Colorado in 1910 while her mother was en route by train to the family home in Salt Lake City, Utah (the train actually had to make an unscheduled stop so that her mother could give birth). Her parents, Gladys and John, separated when she was five years old and her mother moved her four children to Hollywood where one of Gladys's sisters lived, later running a boarding house. All the children pitched in financially by becoming movie extras. Sally and her younger brother John R. Young (better known as Jack) both appeared uncredited in the silent film Sirens of the Sea (1917) starring Jack Mulhall, in which Sally played a sea nymph. Sally also had an unbilled part in Rudolph Valentino's smoldering classic The Sheik (1921).
Her beauty only heightened as she grew up. Director Wesley Ruggles noticed the teen dancing at the Café Montmartre (now known as Montmartre Lounge) and tested her for his "Collegian" film series. She was cast and soon signed by Paramount, which insisted on the new marquee name of Sally Blane. Around the same time, younger (by three years) sister Loretta (born Gretchen Young) signed with First National Pictures. During their early build-up both Sally and Loretta were dubbed "Wampas Baby Stars of 1929". Throughout this time their mother maintained a firm hand in the girls' personal and professional lives.
(Sally Blaine, Louise Brooks and Nancy Phillips for Rolled Stockings, 1927) above
One of Sally's first leading roles was in the western Shootin' Irons (1927) and she went on to play a number of prairie flowers opposite Hollywood's top cowboys. She starred opposite Tom Mix in three pictures: Horseman of the Plains (1928), King Cowboy (1928), and Outlawed (1929). Her career peaked early, however, and Sally seemed content to freelance for such Poverty Row studios as Monogram, Excelsior, Chesterfield and Art class in a variety of genres--crime thrillers, light comedies, mysteries, action adventures. She eventually developed a "nice girl" image.
A two-year lull occurred following the filming of Fox's This Is the Life (1935), and Sally never tried very hard to regain her momentum. Much of this had to do with her meeting of (in 1935) and marriage to (in 1937) director and one-time actor Norman Foster, who had once dated Loretta. Although Sally returned to films in 1937, she was already focused on her marriage and having a family. She and sisters Polly Ann Young and Georgiana Young, however, did make it a family affair at Loretta's insistence when they were given featured roles in Loretta's The Story of Alexander Graham Bell (1939). They all played, of course, Loretta's sisters and this was to be the only time all four girls ever appeared together. One of Sally's last pictures was in the whodunit Charlie Chan at Treasure Island (1939), directed by her husband. During WWII, the family, which now included a son and daughter, lived in Mexico where Foster was directing Spanish-language pictures. She appeared in one of them (La fuga (1944), with Ricardo Montalban). Later the family relocated to Beverly Hills and Sally officially ended her cinematic career with a small part in A Bullet for Joey (1955).
Comfortably retired for many decades, Foster died of cancer in 1976. Sally herself succumbed to the disease more than two decades later, on August 27, 1997. Cancer had claimed sister Polly just months earlier that same year. John R. Young also died in 1997, of undisclosed causes. Loretta would die of ovarian cancer in 2000. Sally was survived by her two children, Robert and Gretchen
Born July 11, 1910 in Salida, Colorado, USA
Died August 27, 1997 in Los Angeles, California, USA (cancer)
Birth Name Elizabeth Jane Young
Height 5' 4½" (1.64 m)
Scores of Boko Haram ...the name means Western education is forbidden, They're what you get as the result of a traditional African or Islamic education... jihadists have drowned in a river in northeast Nigeria ... a particularly crimson stretch of Islam's bloody border... ’s Borno state while fleeing from ground and aerial attacks from Nigerian troops, security sources and residents told AFP Monday.
Troops aided by air support attacked several villages on the fringes of the Sambisa forest jihadist stronghold outside the town of Bama, pummelling Boko Haram fighters who had taken over the area, the sources said.
The bully boyz were overwhelmed and in an effort to escape plunged into the Yezaram river, which was overflowing from heavy rains and drowned.
"More than 100 bad boyz were potted, most of them by drowning when they tried to cross the seething river," a senior military officer said on the incident which happened on Thursday through Friday.
"Our troops pulverized the turbans from ground and air attacks, forcing them to abandon their positions," said the officer, who asked not to be identified because he was not authorized to speak on the incident.
Four soldiers were killed, he said.
Nigeria’s Defense Minister Bashir Salihi Magashi told news hounds Monday that there had been massive ground and air operations against jihadists last week, but did not give full details.
Troops, supported by Super Tucano aircraft and Alpha jets, conducted "clearance operations" in villages along the river, said Bukar Grema, an anti-jihadist militia fighter, working alongside the military.
"Most of the Boko Haram elements drowned in the river and their bloated bodies were found floating on the surface on Saturday," Grema said.
"Over 100 of them were retrieved from the river and buried by our men," he said.
Two residents confirmed the drowning incident.
Most of the bodies were recovered at Busuwwa, one local resident, Bunu Ibrahim, told AFP
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Twenty-one separatist fighters and six members of al-Qaeda’s Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of... branch were killed Tuesday, government and security sources said, as an attack by the gunnies punctured months of relative peace in the war-torn country.
Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula ...the latest incarnation of various Qaeda and Qaeda-allied groups, including the now-defunct Aden-Abyan Islamic Army that boomed the USS Cole in 2000... (AQAP) attacked positions held by the Security Belt group in Abyan ...a governorate of Yemen. The region was a base to the Aden-Abyan Islamic Army terrorist group until it dropped the name and joined al-Qaeda. Its capital is Zinjibar. In March 2011, al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula declared the governate an Islamic Emirate after seizing control of the region. The New York Times fastidiously reported that those in control, while Islamic hard boyz, are not in fact al-Qaeda, but something else that looks, tastes, smells, and acts the same. Yemeni government forces launched an effort to re-establish control of the region when President-for-Life Saleh was tossed and the carnage continues... governorate in Yemen’s south, the sources said.
About three hours of fighting "left 21 dead among the (Security Belt), including an officer, and six among the al-Qaeda combatants," a government official said on condition of anonymity. Two security sources confirmed the corpse count.
Yemen has been gripped by conflict since Iran-backed Iran's Houthi sock puppets ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The legitimate Yemeni government has accused the them of having ties to the Iranian government. Honest they did. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews They like shooting off... ummm... missiles that they would have us believe they make at home in their basements. On the plus side, they did murder Ali Abdullah Saleh, which was the only way the country was ever going to be rid of him... rebels took control of the capital Sanaa in 2014.
AQAP and gunnies loyal to the ISIS group have thrived in the chaos.
Tuesday’s fighting comes as the Houthis and forces supporting the ousted government observe a shaky cease-fire in the years-long civil war.
Riven by divisions, the groups opposing the Houthis, who originate from the north, include southern separatists who support the re-establishment of South Yemen.
The country was divided into North and South Yemen until reunification in 1990.
Underlining Yemen’s parlous security, on Saturday AQAP released a video showing a United Nations ...an organization which on balance has done more bad than good, with the good not done well and the bad done thoroughly... worker who was kidnapped more than six months ago, the SITE Intelligence Group reported.
Five UN staff members were kidnapped in Abyan in February while returning to the port city of Aden after a field mission, UN spokesperson Eri Kaneko said at the time.
In Saturday’s video message, apparently recorded on August 9, Akam Sofyol Anam urges "the UN, the international community, the humanitarian organizations, to please come forward... and meet the demands of my captors," without outlining the demands.
Yemen’s UN-brokered cease-fire has drastically reduced fighting since the truce began in April, but outbreaks of violence continue.
Last week, 10 Yemeni soldiers were killed in a Houthi attack near Taiz, the country’s third biggest city which has been blockaded by the rebels since 2015.
The assault, which also left several soldiers maimed, was aimed at cutting off a key route to the southwestern city of about two million, the government said.
On Thursday, the Houthis held a military parade in the Red Sea port city of Hodeida, drawing a rebuke from the UN.
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[KavkazUzel] A court in Rostov-on-Don found a resident of Kabardino-Balkaria guilty of justifying terrorism and sentenced her to a fine of 300,000 rubles.
According to the investigation and the court, a native of Nalchik posted on an anonymous page in one of the social networks materials containing public calls for terrorist activities and justification of terrorism, law enforcement officers identified the author of the publication. The Southern District Military Court found her guilty and imposed a fine of 300,000 rubles, Interfax reported today, citing the press service of the Russian Federal Security Service for Kabardino-Balkaria.
The "Caucasian Knot" also wrote that Luiza Kirzhinova, a resident of Kabardino-Balkaria, was found guilty in December 2021 of publicly justifying the militants' attack on Nalchik. The court also imposed a fine of 300,000 rubles on her.
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[RIA Novosti] Israeli troops launched a missile attack on the international airport in Aleppo, some shells were intercepted, according to the Syrian state agency SANA.
"The air defense responded to the missiles of the Israeli aggressor and shot down several of them," the media said.
Later, the Syrian Ministry of Defense reported that the airport's runway was damaged and out of order due to shelling.
The Israeli military has recently been constantly inflicting airstrikes on various targets in Syria . In particular, Damascus , the port of Tartus and a research center in the city of Masyaf were subjected to shelling.
Russian Permanent Representative to the UN Vasily Nebenzya condemned Israel 's ongoing attacks on Syrian territory, saying that long-term stability in the country can only be established after the illegal foreign military presence ceases.
Israel launched a missile attack on Tuesday targeting Syria’s Aleppo airport for the second time in a week, this time putting it out of commission, Syrian state media said.
The Syrian government did not report any casualties. The transport ministry said all flights will be diverted to the capital, Damascus.
State media, citing a military source, reported that Syrian anti-missile defense systems fired back at what they said were Israeli missiles.
According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a U.K.-based opposition war monitor, the Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s also destroyed warehouses belonging to Iran-backed militias.
Israel launched airstrikes at Aleppo airport last week, damaging its runway and, according to the war monitor, a warehouse that likely stored a shipment of Iranian rockets.
Last week’s strike tore a hole in the runway and also damaged a structure close to the military side of the airfield, satellite photos analyzed by The News Agency that Dare Not be Named showed.
Syria’s foreign minister last week said the attack "completely destroyed the navigation station with its equipment."
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
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