Word: cullman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Authority's Angel. The Authority keeps clear of politics. It is run by twelve non-salaried commissioners (appointed by the governors of New York and New Jersey). The current chairman is Howard Stix Cullman, 56, dapper, hustling millionaire director of Cullman Bros., tobacco growers and merchants...
This week, what with Mister's advance sale crowding $150,000, its angels hoped to get their first dividend. Tobacco Magnate Howard Cullman, Broadway's archangel, could tell them all how lucky they were. By pedantic calculation of risks, he made the black on only six of the 15 shows he had backed during the 1945-46 season. Three were dead losses; six were still to be produced...
...teens, Billy went to a school run by Benedictine monks in Cullman, Alabama. When he began to think seriously of studying for the priesthood, his horrified father rushed him off to St. Mary's in Maryland (B.A.) and to Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia. Just before Billy got his M.D., his father died. Billy discarded the idea of medicine when a Philadelphia friend bought a theater. Billy became manager...
During the '20s he helped nurse along Greenwich Village's famed Provincetown Playhouse. During the '30s he proved his "merchant eye" for entertainment. When the Roxy movie palace went bust, the receivers appointed Cullman to run it. Within the first year, using a fire-sale technique, he swung it over from a $4,000 weekly loss to a $6,500 weekly profit. He slashed admission prices, sponsored fashion shows, gave away roses, tried to book Huey Long. Five years after Cullman started running it, the Roxy-handsomely solvent - was sold to 20th Century...
...Actually all Cullman's investments are split with his older brother Joe, who is not merely a silent partner, but a muzzled one. Says Howard: ''If Joe walks out on a show opening night, it's sure to be a hit. Joe is always wrong...