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...witness of the first week. Stevens, a topflight businessman, found himself snarled in a dirty little fight where the fate of an Army private named G. David Schine and the fate of a New York dentist named Irving Peress somehow became high affairs of state. Senator McCarthy, ever the showman, gave televiewers their time's worth. A new character. Ray Jenkins, the committee's trap-jawed counsel, brought to the screen the forensic flamboyance of a Southern trial lawyer...
Divorced. Billy Rose, 54, bantam Manhattan showman (The Immoralist); by his second wife and onetime aquastar, Eleanor Holm Rose, 40; after 14 years of marriage, two of court battles, no children ; in Las Vegas...
...once again using the drawing room as a vestibule to the secret places of the heart. It shows him once again convinced, as a basis for seriousness, of the importance of being frivolous. It proves him once again-in his ability to make people speculate, argue, disagree-a master showman. But it is not, in the end, a successful play...
Like any good showman, McCarthy scheduled some comic relief. He brought on one Alexander Gregory, also of Lynn, who protested quietly: "I'm not an evil man. No one in Lynn thinks I am evil." In fact, said Gregory, he had never met an "evil Communist." All the party members he knew were "very gentlemanly, honest, conscientious, security-minded persons." McCarthy was surprisingly gentle toward the gentle Mr. Gregory...
...party and later "we both flew at each other like wildcats." But the countess will always be remembered by Elsa as the "great broncobuster of the banal, bathos, pathos and hypocrisy-that makes up what we call modern society." From Manhattan. Eleanor Holm Rose, estranged wife of Showman Billy Rose, flew off to Nevada, where by lingering for six weeks prior to April 10 she can divorce Billy, thus qualify for a settlement jackpot of $30,000-a-year alimony, plus a $200,000 bonus...