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Just for You (Paramount) casts Bing Crosby as a paragon of Broadway show producers. When he is not putting on one smash hit after another and showing his leading men how to sing songs and make love to the leading lady (Jane Wyman), he is throwing gay first-night penthouse parties, where he croons such ditties as Zing a Little Zong. But Widower Bing is so busy being famous that he is a flop with his teen-age children. His daughter (Natalie Wood) winds up in jail with her drunken governess. His adolescent son (Robert Arthur) resents Bing...
...Bing soon mops up these messy situations. He gets his daughter admitted to an exclusive girls' school by calling Old Headmistress Ethel Barrymore "darling," and by singing an oldtime vaudeville number at the school's annual musicale. As for his son, Bing gets one of his songs, Just for You, published. Sample lyric: "Spring is here and all the pretty flowers that grow, grow just for you. Skies are clear and all the little stars that glow, glow just for you." At about this point, when it is plain that Bing will make the grade with his children...
...When Bing Crosby played an exhibition golf match [here] for charity, we were on the Junior Committee...
...blame. Practical jokers had telephoned in large pledges on behalf of friends, neighbors and well-known businessmen. Days later came hot and embarrassed explanations from many supposed donors, denying that any pledges had been made. Telethon workers had also included amounts pledged in return for special messages, e.g., "Tell Bing to tell Lennie and Janie to go to bed"; "Tell Bob to mention Joe's Bar." Because of the rush, many of the messages did not get to the microphone, and those who were disappointed never sent their money...
...flood of applications from schools (for both commercial and noncommercial permits), radio stations, newspapers, theater interests, a coal company, a real estate company, a tobacco company, several insurance companies and religious organizations. Some well-known names were also in the running: Mary Pickford Rogers, in Winston-Salem, N.C.; Bing Crosby Enterprises, in Spokane, Wash.; Democratic National Committee Chairman Frank McKinney & friends, in Indianapolis; Economic Stabilizer Roger Putnam, in Springfield, Mass. Denver, which now has no TV, is the biggest plum. Among the hopeful applicants: Comedian Bob Hope and Denver's Mayor Quigg Newton...