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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 $50 million, the para oxes are not ended - Billy Rose has yet to be buried...
Philadelphia and Canton generated enough headlines and shocking TV footage to convert the march into a national cause celebre-and the celebrities began streaming toward Jackson. Comedian Dick Gregory, Showman Sammy Davis Jr. and Actor Marlon Brando turned up in Tougaloo to perform for the marchers the night before their seven-mile trek into Jackson. Meredith, recovered from his wounds, also flew back but at first refused to have anything to do with the main body of marchers, with the cryptic comment: "There have been some shenanigans going on that I don't like." In the end, Meredith decided...
Died. James J. Rorimer, 60, art scholar and showman host to 7,000,000 visitors annually as director of Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum; of a heart attack; in Manhattan...
...Amid a riot of witty wordage and abundant alliteration, TIME portrayed Merrick not as a promethean, prolific, prodigious producer, or as a brilliant Broadway Brahma, but as (horrors!) the Abominable Showman! Couldn't you have kindly conceded that this charming champion of the theater has brought delight to thousands of theatergoers, given work to throngs of thespians, and made a place in the sun for worthy playwrights? JANE RENTON SMITH Plymouth Meeting...
...usual style, Cassius played the showman for the first five rounds. Before the opening bell, he bowed to the East and then shadow-boxed. In the opening rounds he danced around to the left, bounced occasionally off the ropes, raised his hands over his head and then dropped them below his waist, and waved to the crowd when they booed his antics and dodge-em tactics...