Word: cullman
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Dates: during 1944-1944
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...teens, Billy went to a school run by Benedictine monks in Cullman, Alabama. When he began to think seriously of studying for the priesthood, his horrified father rushed him off to St. Mary's in Maryland (B.A.) and to Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia. Just before Billy got his M.D., his father died. Billy discarded the idea of medicine when a Philadelphia friend bought a theater. Billy became manager...
...angel as busy as Cullman has to get up in the morning. Besides being vice president of Cullman Brothers Inc. which owns Benson & Hedges (Parliament, Virginia Rounds), he is vice chairman of the Port of New York Authority, president of Beekman Hospital, chairman of the Program Committee of the New York City Center. He writes hundreds of letters, makes hundreds of phone calls a day, never slowing up for a second. "He wants everything done yesterday," a Port Authority associate once said...
...Walkout. Cullman has dabbled in stage doings since prepping at Phillips Exeter Academy, where he took part in French plays "which neither the cast nor the audience understood." At Yale, trying to become drama editor of the Yale Courant, he wangled an interview with Sarah Bernhardt. When he asked her, "Do your love affairs help you to understand the parts you are playing?" she walked...
During the '20s he helped nurse along Greenwich Village's famed Provincetown Playhouse. During the '30s he proved his "merchant eye" for entertainment. When the Roxy movie palace went bust, the receivers appointed Cullman to run it. Within the first year, using a fire-sale technique, he swung it over from a $4,000 weekly loss to a $6,500 weekly profit. He slashed admission prices, sponsored fashion shows, gave away roses, tried to book Huey Long. Five years after Cullman started running it, the Roxy-handsomely solvent - was sold to 20th Century...
...Actually all Cullman's investments are split with his older brother Joe, who is not merely a silent partner, but a muzzled one. Says Howard: ''If Joe walks out on a show opening night, it's sure to be a hit. Joe is always wrong...