Word: holmes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...troubles, Manhattan's bantam Showman Billy Rose, 52, confided to a London reporter that he would like to adopt two homeless European children. He explained: "When I married Miss Fanny Brice, she was one of America's great comediennes and very busy. When I married Miss Eleanor Holm, I was very busy." Why did he want children now? Was he lonely? Not exactly, said Rose. "At my age, most people are lucky if they have enough friends to go round one card table. Me, I've got enough to go round...
While wife Eleanor Holm was vacationing in Florida, Showman Billy Rose called the Manhattan police to his expensive Beekman Place house, flashed his property deed, then ordered private detectives to break the locks with a heavy screwdriver. When the doors were open, Billy, police and reporters made a brief inspection of the five-story building. About 90% of his "treasures," Billy announced after a solemn survey, had been "looted." Billy had been trying to get in ever since Eleanor locked him out last year. How could he keep up the insurance on his treasures, he wanted to know, until...
...celebrated tabloid case of Billy Rose v. Eleanor Holm (TIME, Jan. 14) finally reached the comparative dignity of a jampacked little Manhattan courtroom. As a show it was Rose's biggest flop. He had countered Eleanor's suit for separation by charging her with adultery with five men about town & country, and the billing for the opening show promised the most sensational divorce trial in years. But the presiding judge quickly disappointed the expectant crowd of reporters. He called the principals and their lawyers into his chambers for a 2½-hour talk. When it was over...
...month before their divorce case could reach the comparative dignity of the courts, Billy Rose and Eleanor Holm began throwing mudpie bulletins at one another in public.* Last week their latest volley of press releases gave Manhattan's joyful tabloids the best copy of the whole hot summer. Billy Rose himself, the unco-smart little bashaw of Broadway, called it "trial by newspaper...
Brooks H. Lupien '52 and Knud K. Lonberg-Holm '53 were runners-up having gotten excellent products but having exceeded the time limit of six hours. Daniel J. Claes '53, Adrianne Ellefson '54, Elmer T. Egashira '53, and Albert I. Holtz '54 received honorable mention for getting acceptable samples of all seven products...