Word: billingsley
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Greetings from the Stork. When war broke out, Lisa and Fernand came to the U.S. Soon after her first pictures appeared in U.S. magazines, smitten strangers sent her presents, including a bottle of champagne from Stork Club Impresario Sherman Billingsley, whom she has never met. She recalls, "I thought: what a strange country this is. Maybe I'd better go home now." Today, Lisa works an average of 20 hours a week, half on advertising and half on magazine fashion illustrations, which pay less than advertising pictures ($12.50-$15) but carry prestige. Lisa averages about $500 a week, could...
...until a 220-Ib. center fell on his 135-lb. frame and broke three ribs. He studied law, served as a captain of infantry in World War I, and returned home to become an assistant U.S. attorney (in which job he convicted, among others, a young bootlegger named Sherman Billingsley, now owner of Manhattan's posh Stork Club...
...Signing an armistice in the labor battle over Manhattan's gilded Stork Club (TIME, Dec. 15), Proprietor Sherman Billingsley disposed of charges that he tried to influence an election among the kitchen help by agreeing to: 1) rehire three of the eight men he fired; 2) pay back wages amounting to $5,779; 3) hold a new election whenever the union wanted...
...Mercado said he got the $500-and $600 more just before he was to testify at the hearing. He had instructions, he said, to tell the board he worked against the union of his own volition. Billingsley promptly suspended him. Just as promptly, Manhattan's District Attorney Frank Hogan called for minutes of the hearing to "determine whether there was subornation of perjury...
...back, just as though he didn't have a couple of other legal brawls on his hands. In the U.S. district court in New York, he was being sued for $100,000 by one Raymond Pillois of Paris, who thought that would be a reasonable fee for getting Billingsley an exclusive contract as American agent for a French perfume. In Baltimore, for a change, Sherm was suing. Once more in his career he was trying to get someone to stop using the name Stork Club on a gin mill other than...