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...Bing Crosby and Bob Hope have had one for years, Andy Williams gets his next year, Dean Martin is lined up for 1969, and Frank Sinatra is so anxious to acquire Hollywood's latest status symbol that he doesn't even bat an eye at the $175,000 price tag. Well what is it, for heaven's sake? Nothing less than their own golf tournament, with the boys and their pals putting up the cash and getting the whole thing named after them. It's all two-bit Nassau, though, compared with what Jackie Gleason...
...spend money, not to raise it," says the Metropolitan Opera's resident patrician Rudolf Bing. But the general manager of the Met is not opposed to receiving contributions-and last week he got a big one. Eastern Air Lines announced that it was giving the Met $500,000, which will enable Bing & Co. to produce a new Ring cycle of four Wagnerian operas to be presented in as many years...
Whether or not Eastern's gift to the Met presages a new flood of money for the arts remains uncertain. But rival American and United thought enough of the idea to call in their congratulations. And by week's end, even Bing might have been heard humming: "Fly Eastern-Number...
...FRIDAY NIGHT MOVIES (CBS, 9-11 p.m.). The Country Girl (1955), with Grace Kelly, Bing Crosby and William Holden...
...Hale statue could be anybody, Bing Crosby, Pat Boone, or even House Speaker Elmer Cravalho." Asked one Protestant minister who favored the Marisol: "Would we take statues of the mutilated body of Christ out of churches and destroy them just because they look so horrible?" The Senate responded to the uproar by authorizing $73,350 to make not one, but two 7-ft. casts of Marisol's Damien. Hawaii, said the Senate resolution, will be judged by the "maturity of its civilization." The Marisol version "will impress the viewer not only with the temperament, character and greatness...