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...Showman. But when Jeffers became U.P. president in 1937, Big Bill developed a broad streak of Hollywood showmanship, a liking for lavish dinners -and the publicity and good will they brought the U.P. When he was crowned King Ak-Sar-Ben (Nebraska spelled backwards), an honor given each year to a leading citizen of Omaha, he decked himself out in silk knee breeches, a 35-lb. train, and a crown perched on the side of his head. His own battery of cameramen were on hand to take his picture. So attired, Jeffers presided over, and paid for, a dinner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RAILROADS: The U.P. Trail | 7/30/1945 | See Source »

Married. Monte Proser, 39, Manhattan showman and self-styled saloonkeeper (the Copacabana); and Jane Ball, 24, shapely cinemactress (Keys of the King dom) ; he for the second time, she for the first; in New Hope...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jun. 18, 1945 | 6/18/1945 | See Source »

Divorced. Leland Stanford ("Larry'') MacPhail, 55, baseball's bleacher-lunged showman, now boss of the New York Yankees ; by Inez Thompson MacPhail, 55; after 34 years of marriage, five of separation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, May 14, 1945 | 5/14/1945 | See Source »

...stay open until 4 a.m. on week nights, 3 a.m. on Saturdays, hoped for a reprieve. Cried Billy Rose: "The Mayor doesn't like it. If he did he'd be jumping all over the lot shouting hooray for it." Said the Mayor: "Billy Rose is a showman-he uses such terms as colossal and terrific...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Matter of Conscience | 3/5/1945 | See Source »

Born. To Rita Hayworth, 26, cinemactress; and Orson Welles, 29, showman: their first child, a daughter; in Santa Monica, Calif. Weight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Dec. 25, 1944 | 12/25/1944 | See Source »

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