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...Hollywood, Bing Crosby, 44, was named the nation's favorite movie star, according to the annual poll taken by the trade magazine Boxoffice. Bing barely edged out Ingrid Bergman, 31, who had won the top spot for the past two years. Other favorites, in order of their popularity: Gary Cooper, 47, Claudette Colbert, 43, Clark Gable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People | 11/29/1948 | See Source »

...boss Ed Crump's machine has split the party into bitter halves, and the Republicans have coincidentally emerged with one of the most dubiously-colorful attractions to grace GOP politics in the South since Reconstruction days. This character is Roy ("Ah don't know nothin' about polities"). Acuff, the Bing Crosby of commercial hillbillyism, whose nasal crooning and asserted stunts have drawn huge crowds all over the state. Acuff is running for governor on the GOP ticket, but his immense popularity may drag the senatorial candidate, Carroll Recce, into high office along with...

Author: By David E. Lilienthal jr., | Title: The Campaign | 10/26/1948 | See Source »

...middle of a round of golf one day last spring, Capitalist John Hay Whitney and Crooner Bing Crosby began to talk about-of all things-frozen orange juice concentrate. "Jock" Whitney thought he had hold of a good business proposition, and by the time they had got to the 19th Bing was all ears. Last week the Whitney-dominated Vacuum Foods Corp. (Minute Maid frozen orange juice concentrate) announced the deal they made...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORPORATIONS: Minute Maid's Man | 10/18/1948 | See Source »

Radio Time (Wed. 10 p.m., ABC). Bing Crosby returns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Program Preview, Sep. 27, 1948 | 9/27/1948 | See Source »

...music was still in his head. Two years ago he went up to Edinburgh with an idea for a festival. The Lord Provost, Sir Jon Falconer, liked it. Bing wrung pledges for ?60,000 from Edinburgh merchants, the Art Council of Great Britain and the City of Edinburgh. Then he wrote to Bruno Walter: "If we can get the Vienna Philharmonic to come, will you come to conduct it?" Walter quickly said yes. "After that," says Bing, "it was easy. When artists were diffident, it was only necessary to tell them Bruno Walter was coming...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Carnival in Scotland | 9/20/1948 | See Source »

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