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Marriage Revealed. Barbara Billingsley, 18, daughter of Manhattan Saloonkeeper Sherman (Stork Club) Billingsley; and John Rogers Christoffers, 28, commercial photographer; in Folkston, Ga., on Nov. 29, after her father had reported her as a missing person...
Died. Allen Billingsley, 64, since 1928 president of Cleveland's Fuller & Smith & Ross, Inc. advertising agency (accounts: Westinghouse, "Alcoa," Sherwin-Williams), twice board chairman (1939 and 1944) of the American Association of Advertising Agencies; of a heart ailment; in Cleveland...
...edition of Who's Who included some newcomers. Among the entertainers: Jimmy Durante, Sid Caesar & Imogene Coca, John Wayne, Mario Lanza. In government: Perle Mesta and Mike Di Salle. In fashions: Christian Dior and Jacques Path. In the Manhattan saloon set: Sherman (Stork Club) Billingsley...
...find an occasion to his liking. Winchell supplied one by his attacks on Negro Singer Josephine Baker, after she complained that the Stork Club had refused to serve her (TIME, Nov. 12). When the race-conscious Post took her side, the paper heard that Stork Club Owner Sherman Billingsley had set agents to investigating Post Owner Dorothy Schiff...
...Post decided to investigate Billingsley first, then dropped him in favor of his great & good friend Winchell, because "all the trails seemed to lead to Winchell." Editor Wechsler sent a pack of seven reporters after the story. They spent two months at the job before Editor Wechsler sat down to write most of the series himself...