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...Bing Crosby has four sons, and all of them - after a fashion - can sing. But the 19-year-old twins, Philip and Dennis, are dedicated to running the 25,000-acre family ranch in Nevada, and 1 6-year-old Lindsay is too young to have settled on a life work. That leaves 20-year-old Gary Crosby. This week, in Dad's footsteps, Gary opened the first show of his own recorded series (Sun. 8 p.m., CBS radio...
Gary was not thrown into show business on a sink-or-swim basis. His father's good friends and old employees, Bill Morrow and Murdo Mackenzie, are directing and writing the Gary Crosby Show; the announcer is veteran Ken Carpenter, a long time Bing sidekick, who remarked cheer fully that he was set for life "as long as I don't run out of Crosbys." Father Bing himself supplied a word of tactful advice ("Always be on time") and thoughtfully stayed away from the first recording session just in case he might make his son nervous...
...program is a carbon of Bing's. Gary sings a few songs, swaps a few wisecracks with Carpenter, has a few guest stars (on the first show: the spiritual-singing team of Jane Russell, Rhonda Fleming, Beryl Davis and Connie Haines). His untrained voice is small, but he has the familiar Crosby ease of delivery if not the master's resonance. In fact, Gary has just about everything except his father's sponsor (General Electric). CBS plans to keep the show running throughout the summer-sponsor or not-but it will then...
...good enough," Bulla recalls. "I think by the end of the year I had won about $500 and Sam had knocked down $10,000." Snead became the overnight sensation of golf. He took sixth place in the Los Angeles Open, then won the Oakland Open and the Bing Crosby tournament over the full field of America's top professionals. Sportswriters dubbed him "Slamming Sammy." In Los Angeles one day, on a practice tee, Snead tried out a decrepit driver belonging to Henry Picard...
...round bat and a fast-moving target, Williams explained, calls for much more skill than the quiet game of golf. "Maybe so," said Sam doubtfully. "But when we hit a foul ball, we've gotta get out there and play it." Another time, when Snead heard that Bing Crosby had just won the Academy Award, he said, "Gee, that's swell. How'd he do it-match or medal play?" After his first big splash in California, Snead saw his picture, a Wirephoto, in the New York Times. He was amazed. "Now how'd they ever...