Word: showman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Largest individual owner: Showman Billy Rose, whose 80,000 shares, worth $11.2 million at the current price of $140 each, have brought him $288,000 in dividends during the past year...
Married. Billy Rose, 65, Broadway showman who, as the largest individual owner of A. T. & T. (80,000 shares worth some $11 million), now spends almost as much time reading the Wall Street Journal as he does Variety; and Doris Warner Vidor, 48, daughter of the late cinemogul Harry Warner; she for the third time, he for the fifth; in Montego Bay, Jamaica...
...never was very robust, and now, at 64, he is growing noticeably pale and frail. But tiny (5 ft. 3 in.) Showman Billy Rose is still the oldtime dynamite. Traveling to Jerusalem for the seventh time in three years, he was overseeing construction of his greatest philanthropical production: a $500,000 garden to display his $1,000,000 collection of statuary as part of Israel's Bezalel National Museum. "The Guggenheim is nothing compared to what my museum is going to be," boasted Billy. And why was he giving away his collection? "After I'm gone...
...music follows the text almost sheepishly. The despair he portrays is only the despair of the prideful; drama is merely melodrama. Bernstein is a man of both cheek and genius; and in this case, the composer in him has been no more than the advocate of the showman, the charmer, the chap in the chukka boots shouting down from the balcony...
...football, after all, is show business-and everybody knows that there is no showman like an old showman. At 37, Quarterback Y. A. Tittle of the New York Giants is only two years younger than Jack Benny; he wears high-button cleats, laments his departed hair, and eats meatball sandwiches before each game because he thinks they bring him luck. At 33, Giant Halfback Frank Gifford is the man in the collar ads, the face that launched a thousand razor-blade commercials. Each has a special talent: Tittle throws a football better than anybody (60% completion average, a record...