Word: holmes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Married. William Samuel Rosenberg (Billy Rose), 40, smart little impresario; and Eleanor Holm Jarrett, 25, World's Fair Aquaqueen; at last, in Manhattan. Fortnight before, he was divorced by Fanny Borach (Fanny Brice...
...Prien may have picked out a channel, perhaps through Switha Sound, so close to shore that it was deemed by the British unthinkably dangerous and not worth mining or netting. But his own account of the adventure pointed most strongly to the eastern entrance of Scapa Flow, through narrow Holm Sound, where rocks and wrecks block all but a narrow gut close up to the main Orkney Island of Pomona...
When the 1936 Olympics came round, Swimmer Holm was doing pretty well as a night-club singer, with her husband's and other bands. She started her celebrated trip on the S. S. Manhattan on the wrong foot with the U. S. Olympic Committee by trying, unsuccessfully, to pay her own way first class. She spent her time in first class anyway, with newspapermen, taking literally the Committee's instructions to keep the kind of training to which she was accustomed. So the Committee's sober Chairman Avery Brundage threatened to kick her off the team...
After this unexpected turning point in her life, Swimmer Holm turned professional, did a Tarzan movie with Olympic Decathlon Champion Glenn Morris (which proved that she might have listened more attentively to Mrs. Dillon), made more money than she had ever seen before. She met Billy Rose at the 1937 Cleveland Aquacade, where her curvesome capers pleased him as well as the customers...
Pretty, convivial and companionable, Eleanor Holm always has a very good time. Between shows at the Aquacade, she plays bridge with other members of the cast for stakes that do not jeopardize her pay check (reputedly $2,000 a week), has knitted eleven sweaters for her friends since the show opened. She thinks that after her marriage she will retire. She thinks that Billy Rose is "the most fascinating man I ever met." He probably...