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Pint-sized Showman Billy Rose is so tickled to see his stuff in print that he pays $1,500 a week to run it as an ad in Manhattan's dailies (TIME, June 24). Only incidentally does he plug his "bespangled basement" nightclub. By last week, the fan mail and the newspaper syndicate offers he had received had not weaned Rose from his amateur standing. But they did show him that he might give his copy away instead of paying space rates...
Britain's hopes were pinned on her aging showman Henry Cotton, now 39. He rolled up to the Royal & Ancient clubhouse as haughty and pigeon-toed as ever, in a chauffeured Rolls-Royce, dressed in a salmon-pink sweater and blowsy grey trousers. As usual, he did not smile, ignored his opponents, spoke only to his plump, wealthy Argentine wife who followed him around as his official marker. He commanded the largest gallery, and treated the crowd to a three-under-par 70. Then he was whisked back to swank Rosack's Marine Hotel for a massage...
Once he was a shorthand champion who used to take dictation from Bernard Baruch. Now he takes it from nobody. Billy Rose, who is about the size of a Broadway boutonniere, is a self-made showman, songwriter (Million Dollar Baby) and saloonkeeper. He is also a zealous art collector. Last week the bantam Barnum, jack of many a theatrical trade, was mastering a new one. As an offbeat Broadway columnist who pays to be published, he had received offers from two newspaper syndicates who wanted to pay him instead...
...Saturday afternoon, May 18th, will see Lampy's best college tries pit their etceteras against the and so forths of six of Billy Rose's top showgirls, presumably hot off the Diamond Horseshoe. Seven Boston scribes, named by the New York showman, will rate the dozen girls, who will appear both in evening gowns and bathing suits...
Frances Heenan ("Peaches") Browning Hynes Civelli, relict of Millionaire "Daddy" Browning and favorite child bride of the tabloids in the '20s, said that she was going to marry her fourth. After Browning had come 1) a Denver showman, 2) a San Francisco department-store tycoon. Groom-in-prospect: Ralph N. Willson, a former Columbus, Ohio picture-frame maker...