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Last year more people (2,263,336) went to New York's Metropolitan Museum than to the Yankee Stadium. Twelve years ago, the Met attracted only half that number. The box-office increase is largely credited to the epigrammatical, blunt showman who for twelve years has been the museum's director: Francis Henry Taylor. Says Taylor: "Showmanship should never show. But if you haven't got it, you have the kiss of death...
...nearby Sandia Mountains with the season's first snow, some 7,000 people are already waiting in the steel and tar-paper structure-the largest indoor gathering ever assembled in Albuquerque. A Plymouth sedan drives up, and out of it steps the Rev. William Franklin (Billy) Graham, showman, salesman, pressagent, preacher- the hottest Protestant soul-saver since the late Billy Sunday quit the sawdust trail. Albuquerque last week had the honor of celebrating Billy Graham's birthday: he had just turned...
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...
...Showman Rose forthwith called a press conference in his plush office overlooking the stage of the Ziegfeld Theater. More than 20 newsmen responded. Billy opened by saying he was "stunned and bewildered." He had never intended to make that dirty affidavit public, he said, because he knew he could win his case without those "obscenities." It was Mrs. Bernie who had made the affidavit public property by filing her charge against...
...leave of absence from Oklahoma City's oil-rich First Christian Church; by Mrs. Charlsie Alexander, thirtyish, who charged that he treated her more like "a servant than a wife and companion"; after 17 years of marriage, three children. Big (6 ft. 2 in.), handsome, a born showman (he was once a nightclub M.C.) and a spellbinding speaker who makes from five to eight lecture jaunts a week in his own plane, earned a tidy $40,000 a year, he deserted the Democrats in 1950, ran unsuccessfully as the G.O.P. nominee for the U.S. Senate against Mike Monroney, appeared...