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...well along on a lavish campaign to buy up entertainers for its TV network, last week hired a man to tell it what to do with its high-priced talent. In signing a two-year "consultant" contract with pint-sized Showman Billy Rose, NBC Vice President William Brooks explained: "He seems to be quite a guy with ideas, and you've got to take ideas where you can find them...
...spread into 400 daily and 2,000 weekly newspapers and was netting Rose about $3,500 a week. Another reason was "an old show-off like me doesn't like to leave the stage with that big an audience in the house." But the tough little showman, who has been sandwiching his writing in between running his nightclub and theater, finally learned what every good columnist knows: that turning out a column three times a week is close to a full-time job. Concluded Rose: "And now, as the sun sinks in the West and the nurse shoves...
...little recognition until he was known on the Continent and in America-which for years he refused to visit-has dropped him again; even the revolutions of the last 30 years have been made by war, not by Shavian gradualism, even in England. But he was the indefatigable showman at the door for more than half a century who, until the wars came, stole the show. It was war which established the final Fabian victory...
After hours of secret debate, they thought they had found just the man. He was Daniel I. J. Thornton, a colorful and energetic cattle raiser and state senator with some of the looks of Bing Crosby and some of his showman's flair. The choice was enough to perk up the despondent Republicans. It seemed at least to even the delicate balance between conservative Gene Millikin, the Senate's firm right bower to Ohio's Bob Taft, and Fair Dealing Congressman John Carroll, the Democrats' choice to unseat...
...from current Broadway shows, Cantor looked as durable and sentimental as ever. He re-enacted skits from musicals of the '20s and sang such old favorites as Ain't She Sweet? and Ma, He's Making Eyes at Me. Headlined Variety: "Cantor Sock in Debut ... Vet Showman a TV Natural." A twelve-city Hooper survey rated Cantor eleven points higher than CBS's competing Toast of the Town, long a runner-up to TV's perennial No. 1 attraction, Milton Berle...