Word: pauls
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Rose's nightclub success only made his pinwheel imagination whir faster. Why not stage a circus in a Broadway theater? Billy hired Hecht and MacArthur to write the show, Rodgers & Hart to do the songs, Paul Whiteman and his orchestra to play them. Jimmy Durante as the star, and Broadway's biggest showcase, the Hippodrome, to house the spectacle. He called it Jumbo and induced Millionaire John Hay Whitney to back it with a down payment of $200,000. Cracked Rose: "This will either break Jock Whitney or make...
...town house was redecorated and bedizened with a $2,000,000 (Billy's estimate) collection of paintings, a $50,000 collection of Paul Storr silver, and what Billy calls "all the latest antiques." In this hushed splendor, Billy and Eleanor play house. "Billy has changed," says an admiring friend, "from a Lindy table-hopper to a sumptuous host." The Rose parties are small but as meticulously cast as a Broadway production. "Conversation," says Billy, "is the password." It admits such famed raconteurs as George Kaufman, Ferenc Molnar, Ludwig Bemelmans and Leopold Stokowski...
...Summer Symphony (Sun. 5 p.m., NBC). Dvorak's Carnaval Overture, Paul Creston's Threnody, Jacques Ibert's Divertissement, finale of Haydn's Symphony No. 88. Conductor: Alfred Wallenstein...
...California's businessmen, it often seemed as if Henry J. Kaiser might be the New Deal's own private Paul Bunyan. Back in 1942 when the Defense Plant Corporation turned him down emphatically, the RFC loaned Kaiser $123,305,000 to build his Fontana steel mill. And he was permitted to use his shipbuilding profits (most of which would have gone to the U.S. in taxes anyway) to help pay the RFC loan. In this way he paid off $17 million...
...even Paul Bunyan himself could not do without Johnny Inkslinger, the master figurer who kept a piece of rubber as big as a barrel on the end of his nose. With three shakes of his head, Johnny Inkslinger could wipe a page clean of figures. Last week Henry Kaiser tried the same vast trick...