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...Goliaths-yet he could be the most philistine of men. He called himself "a grain of sand in the public's eye," and he could be just as irritating. His friend Ben Hecht called him "a kind of slum poet and Jack the Ripper rolled into one." To Showman Billy Rose, compliments and catcalls were one and the same. Every knock was a boost, every insult a reminder that at least people were talking about him-as they had from the time he was a boy on Manhattan's Lower East Side until his death last week...
...alltime highs. A.T. &T. shares were-already below their peak of 75 (after a 2-for-l stock split in 1964) when the commission sprang its surprise. Between Oct. 28 and Feb. 2, they dropped from 661 to 581, inflicting $4.36 billion in paper losses on A.T. &T. investors. Showman Billy Rose, the company's largest individual shareholder, lost $700,000 of his $10.7 million fortune in A.T. &T. between Oct. 28 and his death last week...
...Squeak. The pressures of domestic and foreign opinion combined to make Johnson's decision to resume bombing one of the most arduous he has had to face in his 26-month presidency. The strain was evident-though with as consummate a showman as Lyndon Johnson it was often difficult to tell to what extent his gloomy, remote bearing was assumed for political effect. He bolted from receptions unwontedly early. After a dinner at which Chief Justice Earl Warren was one of his guests of honor, the President was in such a hurry to return to his deliberations over Viet...
...Jolly Showman. His doctor attributed Quill's death to a coronary occlusion, the climax of years of heart disease. His condition could not have been helped by his long-run performance as a public scold and Malaprop, whose every appearance was good for scatology and demonology, cracks and castigations, all delivered in a beery Kerry brogue that grew richer year by year. He walked with a limp that he attributed to an English bullet-actually, it was caused by a congenital hip condition later corrected by an operation- and called himself an "elder statesman among public monsters." Mike bluffed...
...once said to Ingmar Bergman, in persuading him to change the title of The Face to The Magician, "you may think of yourself as an intellectual, but you're primarily a showman, Your goal is to people into the theatres to see movies...