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...packed off to prisoner-of-war camps, from where they will be repatriated to Portugal. The Indians treated their 2,000-odd prisoners well. At the P.W. barracks at Pondá, the prisoners ran their own camp, cooked their own meals, were only lightly guarded. On Christmas Day, while Bing Crosby records of Adeste Fideles echoed across public squares, they were each given a three-course meal, ten cigarettes, and a tot of wine...
...semi-retirement for three years, but her fans hope that she may emerge from it. Only last year she was welcomed back to La Scala in an emotion-laden performance of Donizetti's Polinto. Recently she has had cordial correspondence with the Met's Director Rudolph Bing, who canceled her contract three years ago but who now would gladly take her back. How much of her original accuracy, agility and control Callas retains is uncertain; and the Callas voice, even in its finest days, was never the equal of Sutherland's. Nevertheless, it was Callas who opened...
Born. To Harry Lillis ("Bing") Crosby, 57, crooning tycoon, and Actress Kathy Grant, 27: their second son, third child (Bing's seventh, including his disaffected brood by the late Dixie Lee); in Los Angeles. Name: Nathaniel Patrick. Weight: 9 lbs., 2½ oz. (Cracked Sidekick Bob Hope, at work with Bing in London on a new Road film: "I'm sure glad it's a big baby. The Crosbys throw back the little ones...
Balanced Diet. C.D. maintains its balance by limiting undisguisedly religious material to 15% of editorial content-and many of the religious articles themselves take a general-interest approach, e.g., "Those TV Priests," a reprint from Today magazine concluding that on television, priests apparently come in only two styles: "Father" Bing Crosby and "Father" Barry Fitzgerald...
...Pont Show of the Week (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). "USO-Wherever They Go!" is a tribute to the United Service Organizations on its 20th anniversary, with President Kennedy and former Presidents Eisenhower and Truman participating. Stars in the wartime and contemporary film clips include Jack Benny, Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, Lena Home, Danny Kaye, Marilyn Monroe, Debbie Reynolds and Danny Thomas...