Word: billye
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Showman Billy Rose throve on paradox. He was a tiny man who loved tall girls, an East Side slum product turned art patron and esthete, a Broadway hipster who became a shrewd Wall Street investor. Though he died six months ago, leaving an estate that may run as high as...
Next to George. Getting Billy under ground has been difficult from the ending. It was first hoped that he could be laid to rest amid the $1,000,000 worth of garden sculptures that he presented last year to Israel's Hebrew University. That idea fell through when the...
Nothing now prevents the sisters from burying Billy. Since Surrogate Cox's decision, the executors have taken the position that the sisters have a free hand to spend a "reasonable" sum on the burial. But the sisters seem preoccupied with their legal battle to break Billy's will...
Billy's bequests to his sisters generally reflect his former relations with them. Polly is to get $50,000 outright and the income from $1,000,000 worth of tax-free municipal bonds-about $40,000 annually. Miriam gets the income from $100,000 worth of similar bonds-about...
On the Shelf. Not surprisingly, Billy's non-burial recently made Variety's front page: BILLY ROSE ESTATE HUNG-UP . . . LEGENDS CONTINUE TO FLOWER IN DEATH. In California, Sister Polly responded with an emotional letter to Variety in which she blamed everything on the executors. Columnist Leonard Lyons...