Word: careers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first from a career as a speed-champion stenographer to a career as one of the most successful songwriters in Tin Pan Alley history. He ran on to fortune and a Broadway winner's fame as a nightclub proprietor and as one of the greatest showmen of his time. As a columnist (at roughly $52,000 a year), he is currently showing impressive stamina and speed in a fiercely competitive branch of journalism. After only nine months of newspaper distribution, Columnist Billy Rose's "Pitching Horseshoes" has landed in some 145 papers with an estimated 18 million (Billy...
...year. After a week on the job, Billy asked for and got the job of organizing the Board's stenographic service. Soon he began spending nights at Baruch's house, taking dictation from the great man himself. The year in Washington was decisive for Billy's career. "I saw big men, the big tories, if you will, but big men, too. They talked tough, but they talked from information. I decided I wanted to be like them...
...Bantam Barnum." Billy Rose's skyrocket career as a showman began with a miserable fizzle called Corned Beef & Roses. Desperately, he rewrote it, renamed it Sweet & Low. Though it had Fanny Brice in some of the original Baby Snooks routines (which Billy wrote), it thudded again. Billy rewrote the show a second time, renamed it Crazy Quilt, and took it on the road. Billed as "A Saturnalia of Wanton Rhythm Featuring Exotic Divertissements," Crazy Quilt played to packed houses at almost every stop. In nine months, Rose recouped his $75,000 outlay and made $240,000 clear profit...
...Aquacade was the supreme spectacle in Billy's spectacular career. But for a time, production and labor troubles threatened to make it the supreme flop. Said Rose hoarsely: "With such labor pains, it's sure to be a big baby." It was. It was the hit of the Fair (and later of the San Francisco Fair). It was the only major concession at the Fair that made a nickel. In two seasons, it made Billy more than $1,000,000 clear profit. Billy knows the reason: "All God's chillun...
Will even a successful career on the fringe of journalism induce Billy to stop running? Well-he has "a really hurrah idea" for a radio program. "One of the nation's ten biggest companies," he says, has offered to sponsor it in the fall...